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Advice for toroidal shape wet layup

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By Shaun - 9/2/2018 1:09:56 PM

Hi Guys, first time playing with CF.
I am a designer and 3d printing enthusiast.

Im going to have a crack skinning the inside of these prototype velocity stacks that are going to live on a sprint car.
Obviously this is a fiddly curvature, I was thinking for layup I should approach it in 3 or 4 pie sections with the 2x2 twill I've got here. 
I was just assuming any less than 3 fabric sections per layer and it would start trashing the weave etc. 

Thoughts? (just one stack at a time not as a whole)

2" base dia  4.5" across the top.

Thanks in advance for any replies ! 
By Shaun - 9/2/2018 11:29:12 PM

thanks again oekmont, im feeling more confident now Wink

this is the profile i kindly borrowed from a volvo penta engineers design study