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Originally Posted by freebeard
This is regular basalt twill with a nano-glass coating. Fireproof, knife-proof and electrically insulative. Actually, the glass sizing is so you can embed it in resin without it turning a blotchy blue-black. So you could do the whole Speedster body in basalt. That thick it would be bullet-proof as well; it's like Kevlar. And you could have a hypercar raw-fiber finish in a nice copper-brown. |
That would be cool. Makes me wonder about the suitability of this material to make an entire monocoque, that would probably take the weight reduction even further.