LFA carbon Fibre weaving ..

[wishihadaTE27]

http://www.autoblog.com/2009/10/29/vide ... #continued

Seems Toyota asked for this vid to be taken down - was AWESOME to watch - anyone know anything about the technology ?

[molex]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY_KnILA ... r_embedded

Updated video link

[dnalunchie]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY_KnILAlps&feature=player_embedded

Updated video link

holy crap thats cool, Im just praying to god that it will spank the new GTR, Im so dam sick of hearing how good it is. (the GTR)

[Adamal]

Im so dam sick of hearing how good it is. (the GTR)

Hahaha thats like saying "Man, I'm so sick of hearing how awesome it is to eat food" or something to that extent

Pretty cool stuff really. Toyota getting back to their loom making roots

[Malcolm]

from what I could tell when I watched the video, it was just carbon tows (bundles of fibres) being woven to form "sock" (a hollow, tubular sleeve) which could then be laminated over (or inside) a mould for the a-pillar, nothing too ground breaking but the weaving machine looked awesome.

Bear in mind that I only watched it once before it disappeared so I could be wrong about what was going on

edit: just noticed the updated link, certainly seems to be just carbon sleeve but with 2 layers in one, interesting. I wonder if anything is done to weave the inner and outer together, or if it's just easier to make the two layers inside each other rather than perform 2 laminating operations?

[peas]

Awesome. I use this stuff at work but have never seen it made. Toyotas build quality aye?

[d1 mule]

they have a machine at general cabel in chch that looks just like that but older for spinning cables together, so maybe not their idea. never the less still cool

[Lith]

holy crap thats cool, Im just praying to god that it will spank the new GTR, Im so dam sick of hearing how good it is. (the GTR)

Got tall poppy? At 5 times the price, comparing the LF-A to a GTR is about the equivalent of comparing an R35 GTR to a Ford Focus... I am thinking/hoping the LFA will go a bit better but I am betting performance wise it isn't to the GTR what a GTR is to a Focus!