"just a guy in a garage" - certainly respect the humility here. Well done!

You do phenomenal work. I started working with fiberglass and resin a few years ago. Lots of mistakes made at the beginning, but I've been quietly following your videos this past year or so and they've been helpful. I've built a few custom electric motorcycles during that time and have been casting the fiberglass fairing parts by hand. It's a lot of work, and waste as you probably know. You'd probably cringe watching it LOL. I hope to work up the nerve to try vacuum bagging someday. I use vac injection to encapsulate axial flux turbine stators, but that's relatively simple. Just a flat circle. Complex parts with compound curves and flanges to deal with is a completely different story. Anyway, just wanted to say that I appreciate the content. Your channel deserves far more attention.

I know im not the only one that gets excited when the parts pop out of the moulds, btw that manifold is a work of art even the parts that wont be visible

This Volvo will be closer to a Koenigsegg than to any other car. I love it!

Amazing work. The manifold looks perfect

Every carbon fiber project needs to have at least one carbon finish part, just for the shock and awe effect. It does look really cool, and if you put it in the engine bay, then it doesn't mess up your exterior aesthetics.

That looks great! Binge watched for last few week, next level stuff 👍

that has come out really nicely - great work, and great video

Another great video. I love the detail you go into with your videos. I'd like to do more with carbon myself so your video are very helpful! Keep it up, you've got a new subscriber!

Wow, the plenum looks amazing! Giving me some serious inspiration on my own car project here!

The whole mold deal is crazy, aluminum foil release dirty & fast & recyclable not foam bad for earthly- heavenly work in progress home.

This is such an excellent video. Phenomenal work!

Man you do such cool work and I love your energy and tip.

I have learned more from you regarding carbon fiber applications than any other channel. I love your freeform way of presenting the content, you include a lot of little tips that the other (overproduced) video leave out. Those tips are where the gold is. Thank you and keep up the good work!

I love how thoroughly you explain everything

So completely AWESOME.... you are making me think about doing my 04 v70R hood in carbon. Excellent work!

Wicked job! Very impressive, thanks for your videos! Cheers, Doug

This is truly a masterpiece. I wish I could do something like this for my project. I dont think I'll have the budget for carbon but I will likely use some of these mould making skills for fiberglass work on my project. Also your fabrication skills in general are good, I love the attention to detail in your videos, it's exactly how I would build something. I'm diving in feet first with my project, but I plan on making sure it's exactly how I want it the first time.

It looks absolutely perfect!

stunning final project

What a great result! Thanks for showing your sealing method with the wax on the flange! I am about to do an infusion on the rear decklid of a Lotus Europa and I have a split mold to deal with. Love your project!

So nicely done!! Terrific work! It must be so satisfying to produce such a quality part yourself. It certainly speaks to why carbon parts are so expensive. Beauty👍

Awesome work as usual!

Totally blown away at your end results! Kudohs!!!!

Amazing work and very useful information!

This is so good. It came out great

What a great looking thing that is. Well done fella.

Not sure which is better: watching the evolution of this project car; or watching the evolution of your beard.

Absolutely stellar work sir!!! 👍

Pulling the materials off the mold when done looked like a complete workout!

Thats One beatiful piece!

great video and very nice parts for a first time try

In high school wood shop we glued something like 4 sheets of 80 grit to a piece of smooth plywood. That way you can flat sand large projects. I know that some 2 part epoxies you can cut with denatured alcohol for few benefits. It extends the off time, removes moisture from the mix, allows you to apply thinner coats and virtually eliminates the risk of air bubbles (because it’s thinner and the moisture has been removed). Also it’s absorbed into wood easier

Wow, great video.... I can use all of your work in my project. That is awesome.... I am working on building a carbon fiber flight case. Thanks mate.

Love this, looks awesome 👍🏼

Excellent work again Craig. We use a perforated film between the peel ply and the infusion mesh. Much easier to remove, especially for me as im in my sixties and not as fit as i use to be. We sand our parts with 800 grade wet and dry paper and then spray three coats of clear to give good u.v protection. Ian in G.B

came out beautiful

I may have also broken a sweat when you were wrestling with that bagging material, but your efforts and attention to detail payed off in a very pro final part! High compliments once again! I just recently spoke to a carbon fibre user who told me about a resin impregnated product (NOT auto-clave cured prepreg!) but room/elevated-temp cured prepreg, which is (must be) kept refrigerated and cures without an autoclave. Handling is otherwise similar with vacbagging required to form it tightly to mold, but the resin measuring and infusing steps fall away. Resin amount and saturation are always perfect because it is preapplied perfectly!... the material is more expensive (no surprise there!), but he tells me it forms and holds its shape into the molds very nicely with plenty of "working time", so is a pleasure to work with, and the upcost is totally worth it for the messy resin steps that simply fall away, plus ease of handling. ...just thought I'd mention it if you weren't aware of it...I can get manufacturer and further info if you're interested (I am NOT their salesman!...just interested in a simpler, cleaner way of getting into, and working with CF). Cheers

Came out amazing

Compressed air helps to remove the Peel ply, great work!

For patterning complex parts, what also works pretty well, is directly applying (masking) tape onto your positive, finding your cut lines, cutting it of along those and then sticking it e.g. on aluminum foil. Pretty quick and you get very accurate patterns.

This is legit! wow, great job

That was super nice part! Will be epic Amazon with a 5pot

Many years ago I worked with Dr. Windecker the designer and builder of the Windecker Eagle airplane. I was working on the experimental International Harvester plastic Scout SSV. We found through testing that when you have to fasten to aluminum using epoxy that it helps to sand the wet epoxy into the aluminum using 80 to 100 grit cloth backed sandpaper. A much tighter bond is achieved when doing this. We were using that process to adhere the aluminum grommets to the epoxy/glass body. We found that when doing our crash tests we had a much higher success rate of not pulling the mounts out of the body. You may want to try this on your plenum. I’m really enjoying the series and your build. Great work! Thanks!

Fantastic work

This guy phenomenal I've contracted at Aston Martin and Bentley working on supercars and this guy is such a craftsman not alot out there doing this sort of thing themselves "properly or adequately" enough at least to call the car "customised" not like the usual hothatch sports model with different alloys exhaust and a racing stripe etc this guy legitimately makes everything he touches better. I mainly like how you reverse engineer everything you've done back to us not guessing at the time then saying afterwards "don't do this" you explain everything In full detail some of us technical people adore no extremely simplified "everybody cando this" type of project. Hands in the air and pray more are like you in the future from a mechanical engineer and keen garage diy'er 👍😉🤫 might be slightly medicated much love 🤨😁

The joint for the two parts can be filled with a black carbon paste that has chopped strands. Ii adds strength also. Look at the Street Bandito youtube page it was about 2-3 weeks ago.

as you were moving the camera around the part I kept saying "let's see that curve on the back side with the cuts.. come on... come one..." then you did and damn did it turn out nice! That's the kind of area that has always made me wonder how to make it look good. That adhesive you have coming is commonly used in diy plane builds for bonding parts together, namely in the wing ribs and wing strut, so it should be quite fine for yours. I'm sure someone might ask about the galvanic corrosion, but if you think about it, this isn't a structural part and second, by time any corrosion happens to the extent that it would cause an issue will be so far into the future as to not be a concern. Too many people make out corrosion concerns like that as if it happens and fails overnight, or even within a couple years. If I hadn't been through corrosion training (aircraft related) I might have wondered myself. The adhesive will also act as a layer between the parts for the vast majority of the surface area as well.

I just made patterns using cheap peel ply (white w/ red stripes). It will move/ conform to a curve a little. Once I had it where I wanted, I marked the edges with a sharpie. Then I flattened/ straightened it out, trimmed the edges, and spray glued it to some heavy paper to stabilize it. Also, end cutters/ nippers are great for getting that stuck peel ply off.

Such a great channel. Thank you.

amazing work!

Beautiful work. Commitment to work. Cant imagine the cost of all of the tools and chemicals to get yourself situated enough to be comfortable doing this.

Holey crap that plenum turned out perfect!

It's totally amazing.

Amazing as usual!

Looking good!

Super,super encore une fois😃😉

One day I hope to try some of what you've taught me...

Luv it.....Think Wagner was a good choice for the epic unwrapping

Geez that came out nice. Time to start the project all over and do it in raw carbon! ;)

Amazing job, I would like one day to make a bonnet or fender for my car in carbon

I have a CF intake on my 1989 M3. It looks like they airbrushed the seams with black paint before applying the clear coat. It hides them well enough. Maybe give that a try. Your parts do look great and since you have put in so much work already... I have been enjoying watching for awhile and I finally subscribed. Thank You!

Well done Would have done a 3 piece mold though (with the front being a separate piece)

@18:19 that look when you made something way better than you thought could. That's real, non-scripted stuff right there or else you sir deserve an Oscar. I was always under the impression that carbon fiber needed to be cured regardless of whether an epoxy was used or not which is why I never worked with it. This was many, many years ago. Is this no longer the case and modern epoxies can cure just under vacuum?

3D print yourself a bellmouth nozzle for the shop vacuum. It'll due much better than that narrow nozzle. Aside from that, the parts look absolutely killer! Nice work.

From my little research that i did a couple of months ago i found that Sikaflex 292 is good for carbon to aluminum bonding

Very underrated channel

This is inspiring, Thanks.

Something you might find useful for removing the bag and peel ply, I use a steel pry bar and slide it between the carbon and peel ply and gently twist the peg bar. It works great and you won’t be sweating buckets after removing the damn peel ply.

Great job. Pretty ballsy to mould the outside of the plenum, and hope the inside fits the aluminum flanges. I think most would've just wrapped a destroyable plug to make sure the i.d's were bang on.

Really nice work! Looks amazing 👍 May I ask why you didnt use a ”inside plug” and laid the carbon on the outside? I didnt see episode one so maybe I missed that info.

I suggest you drill recess holes through both carbon and metal parts where the epoxy can fill those holes and will be a mechanical locking mechanism also.

I don't really think you need it in your current application, bonding the aluminum flanges to the carbon manifold but just for future reference.. In aviation we place scrim cloth between the two surfaces when bonding metal to composite or metal to metal to prevent to much squeeze out. Love your channel!

looks awesome... however easy composites didn't use an autoclave for theirs, just a curing oven for out of autoclave prepreg... I plan to get one of those ovens soon myself... other than that, awesome results!

Yes please, video of a vacuum catch can made!!!!!!

Awesome job! The question is how much boost? Will you gonna pressure test before installing?

Hey, BINGE WATCHED YOUR VIDEOS, THIS IS ABSOLUTE STUNNER. The skill you have acquired, incredible. When do you expect to ignite the engine?

Big part came out good, looks great! You would be good with 3 or 4 layers. 6 is overkill, 10 is just waste. just use twill first then use second twill to otherdirection and then use 400g square or some other than twill. ps. Lots of out of the autoclave prepregs available nowadays. You still need vacuum like here and also about 80-100c temp.

So slick man. Did you cnc that plenum flange? Or send the file off

Could you do a video on how to do pipes with a standard layup method? I'd like to get started into composites for my project car and I need to get some carbon intercooler piping figured out but don't have access to an autoclave or anything fancy.

Hi there, i have a few questions for you buddy. Awesome work btw! What program/software are you using to draw up the 3D prototype?

Have you tried using a perforated release film between the peel ply and infusion mesh? I've typically found it makes demoulding all that easier. Great video! Thanks for sharing!!

some kind of universal shape like a puzzle piece for butt edges is a good idea, slide tap easy add after the fact to both butt pieces. U tape & weld seams & add slide tabs to b double sure won't tear at butt edges.

Lovin' it!! When you say "Geez that looks good!" you sound like Red Green! Where's the duct tape, eh?

install a cathode grounded or can purchase a pulse device they use in Hawaii to keep cars rust free. seen it on a few customers cars usually Military as free to Fairy over. some kind of PWM frequency modulation thru the chassis.

Awesome parts. Can you put the whole thing in a big bag and not have to worry about pleats?

Wondering about the aluminum/fiber connection - will fully hardening epoxy be in joint of dissimilar materials as reliable as rubberizing polyurethane glue? (Edit: subscribed. Excellent work!)

Nice video, I'm about to do a manifold myself for the first time so looking for any tips and tricks. To be fair to easy composites though-- they don't have an autoclave and have never used one in any of their videos. They just do vacuum bagging and an oven

Great ,amazing work. Please i need a catch can similar how the unit of your work . Where can I purchase

This video played randomly, and I told my wife, that looks like a T5 plenum. This is to be the next upgrade to my t5, I assume this is for the Amazon?

I've had peel ply release issues using the cheaper kind, doesn't seem to happen with the peel ply that has the red lines through it

If they made PVC paint u could add to prts so they glue weld up prts quick & easy.

Did you take any extra steps besides fillet wax to seal the mold flange, so it will hold vacuum?

Did you post the Catch Can Video ?? With your new learned expertise of vacuum bagging, will a pump capable of pulling 22Hg be enough to do a fender ??

Wait, you're not bagging the whole mold? Are the flanges really airtight? I could certainly be wrong but ideally wouln't you wanna bag the whole mold? Did you do a leak-down test before infusing? [EDIT] Ah, you're using the wax as a sealant. I'm honestly amazed with how well it worked. Great looking parts.

Haven't seen a post from you in awhile, I hope everything is all right.

old plastic gutter pvc type material for repeated molds same prt, bc it flexes but don't break to easy.

So a couple of holes or pockets where the carbin glues to the aluminium? not all the way through but as like something for the epoxy to grab on? That might prevent the carbon blowing apart from the machined piece ?

Máster piece!!!!

If the carbon fiber came in tape rolls w/just enough glue to place hold till u laminated it would b way easier to use. Diff width tape roll, or big sheets.