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Ben Lipman Goo Roo SA Soarer TT manual, plus TT track car, plus a spare shell
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Sunday, January 18, 2015 - 05:13 pm, by: Ben Lipman(Ben12a)
I pulled the second door skin from the mould this afternoon. After rough trimming, it weighs in at 1380 grams. This is 600grams lighter than the soric cored door skin. It is a lot 'floppier' than the soric core as well. When I make the door frames up, I'll fit the skin to a frame, but my gut feeling is they are too flimsy for 200kph cars. To flimsy to sell, any way.
Soric has a lot less resin wastage too. 2kg of resin and 500 grams of carbon went into the mould, and the piece weighs 1.4kg. THis means around 1kg of resin was wasted using the conventional pure carbon/peel ply/ mesh method.
