Carbon Fiber for parts that get hot


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Ive been looking into making a valve cover or skinning a valve cover as well making an exhaust tip. Can this be done with Carbon fiber? Im assuming the Fiber itself can handle the heat but
im worried about the epoxy. Are there any that can handle high engine temps? or exhaust temps (muffler tip temps)
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Hi Boozehawk,

Loading into an oven at 100'C is definitely not recommended - Firstly, before looking at curing, Epoxy into a Polyester/Fibreglass mould tool is never recommendable as epoxy generally bonds to the tooling gelcoat regardless of the release agent. The next issue is that a normal fibreglass tool wouldn't stand up to those sorts of temperatures.

The High Temp Epoxy has a recommend cure cycle of 24hours at ambient temperature followed by a stepped post-cure cycle as follows to achieve the high temperature properties: 1 hr @ 40'C, 1 hr @ 60'C, 1 hr @ 80'C, 1 hr @ 100'C, 1hr @1 hr @ 120'C and then 2 hours at 140 and 160'c respectively . As such, you'll need a mould tool capable of taking extended periods of time at these higher temperatures.
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Richie (15/08/2016)
Hi Boozehawk,



The High Temp Epoxy has a recommend cure cycle of 24hours at ambient temperature followed by a stepped post-cure cycle as follows to achieve the high temperature properties: 1 hr @ 40'C, 1 hr @ 60'C, 1 hr @ 80'C, 1 hr @ 100'C, 1hr @1 hr @ 120'C and then 2 hours at 140 and 160'c respectively . As such, you'll need a mould tool capable of taking extended periods of time at these higher temperatures.


Could the stepped curing process be done with the part removed from the mould after the 40c step as i imagine the fibreglass shld be able to cope with 40c?
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