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Originally Posted by Jonny042 View Post
Continuing on the roof skin topic, this was by far the largest infusion I've done. It took about an hour to get to this point:



It's starting to become obvious why the oven has to be so large!



It turned out pretty great!





The final trimmed part will be about 3000g, or 6.6 pounds. Is it a bit heavier than you might expect? Well, it is fully my intention to post a picture of me STANDING ON THE ROOF once it's bonded to the shell. Preliminary testing indicates this has the strength and stiffness for that to happen.
If someone wanted a lighter version for a racecar I could make one as light as 1500g, but IMO it would be completely unsuitable for a street car.



My measurements and calculations tell me if I was to remove the roof skin from a non-sunroof car, that piece of steel would weigh 13.5 pounds, so about double that of the carbon skin.

The truthful and realistic weight savings for removing a sunroof and all its mechanisms, cutting a larger hole, and bonding on a carbon skin will be in the neighborhood of 35 pounds.
Beautiful!!!I have my sunroof all taken apart right now and it blows my mind the whole roof could be less than 7 lbs.
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