First read up about wet carbon and dry carbon, your worried about the strength right. but almost every single piece of carbon fiber sold in the car world is wet carbon which has very little in common with the strengths and properties of dry carbon. most things are fiberglass covered with carbon.
So what difference does it make if it’s wet carbon, silver carbon, or fiberglass if its all the same in the end minus the looks.
http://www.seiboncarbon.com/faq.asp
Q. Are your products made with 100% carbon fiber?
A. The “carbon fiber” material is just a piece of cloth. You can’t make any shape out of it without some kind of support. We use fiberglass backing to construct the skeleton.
Q. What are the pros and cons between “dry carbon” and “wet carbon” ?
A. Dry vs. wet involves completely different processes of manufacturing. You can find extensive articles about the details on the web if you do a general search. As for pros and cons, here is a brief summary: Simply put, with dry carbon, you get the most strength and save the most weight. The weaves and quality are more consistent, but they are generally 3 to 4 times more expensive than wet carbon. Wet carbon products are hand-laid, and are more prone to small defects like wavy weaves and tiny bubbles. They do not save as much weight as their dry carbon counterparts. But on the plus side, you get an incredible combination of visual attraction, weight-deduction, and most importantly, price. All products you see on our website are wet carbon. Wet carbon products are also the most popular and most commonly referred to as just “carbon fiber”
From password jdm.
The two main processes of producing carbon products are Wet Carbon and Dry Carbon. The real difference is that Dry carbon is more than just the bling that’s been served up in the industry for the last ten or so years.
Dry Carbon is functional, ultra light weight, and is truly how carbon fiber products were meant to be made. Obtaining maximum weight reduction and superior strength are some of the advantages of Dry carbon. The cost is a lot more, but it’s well worth it for us.
As for Wet carbon, it’s all bling, very minimal in strength, relatively heavy and PLAYED OUT! PasswordJDM is proud to be the first in the industry to offer Dry Carbon.
