Resemble, but not as pretty or fast...

around 3m2, long and skinny. With any luck it will resemble fasta's avatar picture....

Honestly, 50mm centres is plenty. How big is the infusion? 

To some extent my core choice reflects what is easy to get in Portugal. Also, as I have the CNC machine it's not a big deal to have it drill holes.

unless you are going to mill out non standard grooves, just buy the core pre-drilled. It's not worth the time on the CNC.

The core I'm getting is not perforated but I'll do it myself on my CNC. It seems like industry standard is 50mm centers which would add around 6gms/m2 it seems like bumping this up to 25mm centers would be a good idea as the 24gms/m2 seems like a small hit verse having wet out issues. I'll run a few test pieces later this week.

I don't think having a peel ply or not will make much or any difference to the infusion speed.

With just 200gm fibre on the mold side you need to be sure there are enough holes and/or grooves to let the mold side flow ok.

Is your core drilled or grooved in any way?

Sorry, I miss read what you intended I read it as though you were going to premake the inner and out skin and bond to the core after.

No not at all, it's totally fine. 

No, only worried about the mold side being nice. I'm planning on doing the sandwich in one shot. Stack would be:

mold
200gsm carbon
5mm PVC core
200gsm carbon
peel ply in places that need secondary bonding
P3 release film
flow media
bag film


The bag side will have some areas where things will be bonded to it. I'm wondering if I only put peel ply in the areas that need it if it will negatively affect my infusion by changing the flow rates in those areas.