Hi everyone, This is my first post and my first carbon project. I need some advice on bonding a carbon tube to a flange. It is for an inlet manifoid I am constructing. I can purchase 5mm carbon fiber plate for the flange, and am in the process of making a plug for the tube. The tude will be 2 or 3 layers of aerosleeve 3-4.5mm thick wall section. I need to know if it is possible to bond the two parts together and produce a part that is suitabily strong enought or will I have to reinforce the joint? If I need to reinforce how can this be done to look neat?Any ideas on what glue? to use something that won`t go soft with heat, fuel etc. Thanks for reading this post and thanks for any tips.
What’s the inlet manifold for, N/A or turbo?
N/A but I don`t wont it comming appart.
Have you done any reading about water soluble tooling? It might be easier (but more expensive), and I know that the joints will be much stronger than doing a secondary bond.
How are the studs/bolts arranged on the head?
Most N/A inlet manifolds i’ve looked at have the individual runners linked, although it doesn’t look like it’s for strength, more like for ease of fitting. So going by that you could make a generic individual runner with a large flange at either end that could be trimmed to suit each port on the head. That way you only need to make one small tool, and would make the layup much easier. As for the connection into the collector you could put a plate inside and just put bolts through the same as the connection to the head.
I have read about aquasole? but as you say is expensive and then to ship it to Australia. Am thinking of using casting plaster for the cores ( I am making LH and RH moulds to make them ) and carefully chiselling it out of the lay up later. The runners are left and right hand,and rectangular in shape, they run as pairs and will be glued together along their lenght. The flange will be bolted to the head with 4 bolts at one end and simmarly mounted to the throttle bodies at the other. The runners would fit through the flange, I would make a neat fitting hole with room for epoxy and hope that with a fillet around the joint would achieve a strong enought part? If this is possible what would be the strongest glue/Epoxy to use? Thanks for the replies guys I appreciate them.
G’day spanner.
I dont know if these guys sell aquasole or something like that, but they are local!
Clicking here --> Adelaide Moulding & Casting Supplies
Cheers mate
Spanner, we had a great discussion on here (try the search feature) about that material and suppilers for you to contact and see if they have dist. in your area.
Thanks GTjake, I did`nt know of them. I would still like to know any opinnions on wheather gluing the tubes too the flange will be strong enought on its own or will I need to reinforce the joint?