Just to clarify. When I was talking about Soric as a flow media I was meaning can it be used instead of mesh, on top of the peel ply and not between layers of carbon? I'v never used Soric but I imagine it can be pushed around compound curves much better than the mesh?



Hi Craig, never tried that. The problem I see with putting the Soric on top of the peel ply and not in the stack is that once cured the Soric will be rigid with resin making removal from the part extremely difficult if not impossible. Any reason you don't want Soric in the stack?
I use Soric in many of my parts, one to add strength/stiffness and two to remove the need for flow mesh making the lay-up easier especially on complex shapes. For something like a tranny tunnel I would certainly want a core of some kind in there especially with a prop spinning an inch or so from my leg.
I have done a couple of tunnels for "7" type cars, with a bit of thought and the right lay-up you can actually make it part of the space frame and remove quite a few of the chassis tubes in the quest for weight saving

Warren

Carbon Copies Ltd