Story by Matt Smith
For true gearheads, a car is never just a car—it’s a four-wheeled heap of possibilities. Whether you’ve got an old Triumph Spitfire or the latest Mitsubishi Evo, the options for customizing your vehicle are just about endless. Some of our favorite enhancements include splitters, wings and undertrays. However, when it comes to the materials you’ll use to build these parts, your options are much more limited.
Different applications require different materials, and choosing the right one for your fabrication job is crucial—it can even be a matter of life and death. That means you need to look at certain material properties: strength, weight, cost, durability, elasticity, resistance to corrosion, heat tolerance and ease of fabrication. Understanding these eight material properties will help you bring that homemade component to life.
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