custom carbon fiber strut bar?

[RA64]

I'm working on a fabricating a upper brace (strut bar style) for a solar powered car that we are building from scratch. Weight is definitely an issue so I am thinking about using carbon fiber. I'm wondering if anyone has any experience fabricating carbon fiber pieces.

Also i've never seen a carbon fiber strut bar in person so I'm wondering how the carbon fiber piece is mounted. I've seen pics using an aluminum bracket but i'm looking for more details. I'm worried about the mounting point being much weaker then the actual carbon fiber piece. I'm also curious how many layers of carbon fiber is used and what kind of core (urethane foam, nomex honeycomb, aluminum honeycomb) is commonly used on a carbon fiber strut bar for a street car, also how many pounds of force these bars can take.

Any insight is appreciated. If anyone has any experience in this type of thing, I'd like to get in touch with you, and give you more details on the project if you willing to help.

thanks...

[Electronix_etc]

I have seen buildint if a carbonfiber spoiler, and they basicalle made a carved out wooden mold, they took the carbonfiber mat(it was presoaked in resin) they pressed it in all the nooks and corners of the mold, they put the whole mold inside a big vaccume sealing bag, and they sealed it and sucked all the air out of it and made sure there waz not a single tiny bubble left in it, by keeping on pressing the carbonfiber mat from the outside of the plastic bag and sucking the air with the vaccume system out if the whole thing at the same time, and they put it in a slow warmer to bake at about 200-240 degrees it so it would bake up nice and strong. then he popped it out of the warmer the next day, and popped the spoiler out if the mold. they make denfers, door skinz, everything with CF in this project.