I'm not too sure how familiar you guys are with this but thought I'd ask whether anyone has attempted with that technique. As far as I know, this is done with chopped carbon fiber strands under high pressure. At least that's how Audemars Piguet does it with their watches. Recently, Lamborghini started using this method as well for their Sesto Elemento concept cars.  Does anybody have a clue whether this can be done in a home-based environment or you need hi-tech machinery?

I think there is no way to use cf in any form as engine parts. carbon disc brakes are in fact carbon-ceramic. They are made out of "chips" of cf mixed with sillicone, then they are pressed and put in the oven for bonding everything together. Advantage of cf-ceramic discs is their heat resistance, steel discs work worse when the are hot, cf-ceramic works in every range of temp. sorry for my english, I live in Poland