That carbon fiber discussion we had? I wrote an article, name dropped M3post

[dkracing]

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I wanted to go into more detail:

http://www.thedrive.com/opinion/1354...f-carbon-fiber

[shimmy23]

read your blog and felt like you were leading up to something... then the blog ended. is there more?

[dkracing]

Originally Posted by shimmy23

read your blog and felt like you were leading up to something... then the blog ended. is there more?

that is a strange insight, can you tell me where you felt like it was building?

I felt like I conveyed the point that there are four types levels of quality of carbon fiber and in those for types there is even ranges of quality.

[SoManyBlueCars]

My brother in law makes carbon fiber at a factory and the process is amazing.

However, I don't think you can assume that carbon fiber from Ford vs Ferrari will differ in quality. To my knowledge, only BMW produces it in house. Toyota made a loom for the LF-A but none of their current cars utilize the material. Otherwise, it's an outsourced part like any other.

[dkracing]

Originally Posted by SoManyBlueCars

My brother in law makes carbon fiber at a factory and the process is amazing.

However, I don't think you can assume that carbon fiber from Ford vs Ferrari will differ in quality. To my knowledge, only BMW produces it in house. Toyota made a loom for the LF-A but none of their current cars utilize the material. Otherwise, it's an outsourced part like any other.

BMW is not the only one (will search for proof tomorrow if I have time, busy day tomorrow and calling it a night soon)

For Toyota, that is silly, they should just carbon fiber-ify more F series parts.

And for the Ford vs Ferrari (I used Koenigsegg as an example in the article BTW) I believe there is. Look at our carbon fiber parts for our M cars. They are great quality, but look at a Koenigsegg or Pagani carbon part. Like Jurassic Park, spared no expense.

Compare a GT350 wheel to an Regera wheel (even though Ford's is Carbon Revolution wheels I believe). Take design out of the equation and the Koenigsegg wheel still wins.