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Corvette street racer steps up carbon-fiber diet to stay trim.(News)
Plastics News, January, 2005
Byline: Rhoda Miel Call this the Corvette diet plan: Consume more carbon fiber and lose weight. For its latest Z06 street version of the 2006 Corvette race car, the General Motors Corp. icon is boosting its use of carbon fiber on key structural and body components as part of an overall resolution to cut unneeded pounds and pick up speed The Chevrolet sports car first used carbon fiber for a hood on a special commemorative edition of the 2004 Z06.
Now the 2006 version of the Z06 drops the material use on the hood, but instead puts it on two front fenders, the front wheel wells and passenger compartment floor. "We learned how to do the carbon fiber on that hood and worked our way up to 2,000 of them to really work it out,'' said Dave Hill, vehicle line...
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