Your question on the brackets is one that we get asked quite a lot an unfortunatelythere isn’t a simple answer to it. When we make carbon fibre parts ourselves weoften wrestle with how we can make replacement parts attach in the same way asthe original ones. The solution is often different every time and sometimesinvolves salvaging some of the clip or bracket off the original part (if it isto be discarded) or making something similar to the original bracket any way wecan (by fashioning it out of a bit of plastic angle for example) or sometimeseven making a small carbon fibre bracket and bonding it to the reverse of theoriginal part. A ‘captive nut’ can sometimes be laminated into the part so thatit can be screwed into.

 In short, there’s no one solution for all. You just need to see whatyou’ve got and do whatever works best each time. Almost always you’ll make thepart without the brackets or fixings and then add them on after. You can bondusing a little of the epoxy resin, a polyurethane resin or something likeAraldite.