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Carbon Fibre Intake Manifold

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By Mustafa Khalid - 2/17/2019 4:52:36 PM

Hello everyone!
 I am planning to manufacture a intake manifold for a 600cc 4 cylinder engine using  4 layers of 200GSM 3K twill weave carbon fibre. it will be naturally aspirated and the maximum temperature I expect is 70-80 deg C at the engine head surface. I will use epotec yd 128 as resin and Aradur 140 as hardener and it will be cured at room temperature. My question is whether it will be able to withstand the stated temperature and not disintegrate? 
Thank you for your help!
By Nick Lechnowskyj - 11/27/2019 4:23:38 AM

 
Mustafa Khalid - 2/17/2019 4:52:36 PM
Hello everyone!
 I am planning to manufacture a intake manifold for a 600cc 4 cylinder engine using  4 layers of 200GSM 3K twill weave carbon fibre. it will be naturally aspirated and the maximum temperature I expect is 70-80 deg C at the engine head surface. I will use epotec yd 128 as resin and Aradur 140 as hardener and it will be cured at room temperature. My question is whether it will be able to withstand the stated temperature and not disintegrate? 
Thank you for your help!

FYI a trick to keep the intake manifold temperature down is to use a phenolic spacer between the manifold and cylinder head. It's basically a 4-8mm piece of plastic. On my turbo 4 cylinder it got the temperature down from too hot to touch to warm.