Fabricate composite race-car parts with workshop discipline
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Track: Build & Mechanic
Difficulty: advanced
Estimated duration: 340 minutes
Coverage: 6 modules, 31 lessons
Course Overview
For advanced owner-builders who already understand race-car systems and need a practical path from material choice to molds, layup, cure, bonding, and conservative repair decisions. The outcome is a builder who can make nonstructural and semi-structural composite parts repeatably, recognize safety-critical boundaries, and escalate rollover or crash structures instead of guessing.
Modules
- Choose fabrication jobs that fit your tools and risk - 5 lessons - Frame the part, material, and safety boundary before any cutting, laminating, or bonding.
- Control the workshop before controlling the laminate - 5 lessons - Set up clean, repeatable, documented work habits so materials can cure and bond as intended.
- Make tooling that controls the finished part - 5 lessons - Choose pattern and mold methods that match the required shape, finish, thickness, and production count.
- Laminate and consolidate without hiding defects - 6 lessons - Build from wet lay-up fundamentals into fiber orientation, pressure molding, vacuum bagging, and cure discipline.
- Build sandwiches and bonded assemblies deliberately - 5 lessons - Use pre-pregs, cores, film adhesive, reinforcements, and subassembly bonding without overreaching into certified structures.
- Inspect, repair, and escalate with restraint - 5 lessons - Use conservative acceptance checks and know when a part, process, or structure has left the home-shop envelope.
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