Looking real good Andy, I would imagine there is a good weight saving compared with the original seats!

+1 ^

Looking good

Thought I would do a quick update, made the other seat and changed the upulstery a little, was in a rush to get it ready for the Autosport show so they still need lacquering and some refinement to the upulstery but am pretty happy with the end result.

Nice job on developing your own buck it sure looks nice.
Think you might have convinced me that making my own seat buck suited for myself and the car is the best course for my project.

Thanks for sharing those pdf's Warren very interesting read.

The idea of making resin infused carbon fibre wheels put a childish smile on my face.

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Pre-preg made parts aren't necessarily superior to well made infused parts, but in terms of layup, the tacky nature and pre-measured resin nature of pre-preg makes it better suited to wheels in that case as it just makes life easier.

This article was a paper by one student of an FSAE team doing carbon wheels:

https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/1811/58422/carbon_wheel_thesis_FINAL.pdf?sequence=1

Well worth a read.  Also plenty of threads on FSAE forums.

Another good read:
http://seit.unsw.adfa.edu.au/ojs/index.php/juer/article/viewFile/450/278

you can get kevlar pre-pregs but usually such things are mostly used in fairly specialist applications so made to contract and unlikely to be something that can be easily got in small amounts.

It was a busy weekend! Just ring if you need to catch up or ask stuff.

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Hi Warren

In terms of wheels, almost anything is possible with enough forthought but its likely to be very very difficult.  Nothing to say you cant in theory infuse a rim shape. However youve got to get the fabric to stay where it is, and ideally you don't want excessive spray tack usage in structural parts. Then the nature of infusion means it may not be perfectly even all the way round making balancing an issue.

Pre-pregs would be much more consistant and infinitely easier to lay up. 

All the formula student ones I've seen used pre-pregs.  Some used multiple parts bonded together, others devised a more complicated one piece approach.  Some went for carbon rims and billet machined alloy centres.

Warren Penalver
Easy Composites / Carbon Mods - Technical Support Assistant

Seat is my own Shape, taken me around a year to develop the buck

Looks really nice andygtt like the leather work
 
Out of interest what seat is it based on ?

Carbon fibre car wheel would it even be possible with resin infusion ...

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