Composite Series: How To Maintain Your Carbon Fiber Body


Composite Series: How To Maintain Your Carbon Fiber Body

There are some really great reasons to run a composite body on your race car, but there are tips, tricks, and maintenance required to make sure it lasts as long as you want. In this series you’ve already seen how composite parts are made, how to fabricate with them, how to repair them, and install them. But how about taking care of your carbon car that isn’t in need of repairs? How do you maintain it? How do you keep it looking new for years? Well, the answer is pretty simple actually, but it is still going to require some work.

Keeping your carbon body clean, inside and out, will help keep your entire race car in top shape, but the most critical advice to keeping your carbon body looking good is to keep it out of the sun. We understand that it is a race car, and that racing happens in the sun, but shade will make your carbon bodied car last much much longer. Watch and learn.


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One thought on “Composite Series: How To Maintain Your Carbon Fiber Body

  1. Derrell Gumm

    I enjoyed this series on composite bodies. Learned a lot and Tim is very good explaining all of it.

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