Your top shell is looking good, but! and I'm not trying to be too critical but wouldn't a drop sheet of some sort on the floor have been a good idea? I think can see an outline of resin on the floor all around the model, that stuff is hard to get up. About the only way I have found was after it is dry is to grind it.
Yep.... I used a hammer and a chisel to get the carbon strands that were glued last time. Last year, we put down a 12'x10' sheet of plastic, but all of the glue just migrated to the edge of the sheet, so there is now a clear outline of the sheet on the floor. It also made it extremely slippery (wet glue on plastic) and people fell down multiple times. A DA sander with 60 grit should take care of anything left over.... but we will hold off on that until we are done with the carbon. After the body is done, we have to glue in the frame rails, roll hoop, steering assembly, front wheel covers/stays, and possibly an engine mount (still thinking if we should go with an aluminum sub-frame or just use some 3/4" round or square C.F. tube stock.)
I haven't had the opportunity to check on the body yet.... I should have an update by later tonight. I'm curious to see how heavy this is going to turn out. The first try only weighed 4 lbs.... this one has more carbon and will have a lot more glue in it, so if it's less than ~7 lbs, I will be happy. I was hoping for a total body weight of less than 12 lbs, with no windows, but anything under 15 will be good. My goal is to get the car under 70 lbs total... and there isn't that much to make lighter from last year. We had even swiss-cheesed the fuse box, so some serious creativity will have to come into play this year to cut weight from the internal components. I believe the body was 22 lbs last year with no windows. I think we will save ~3 lbs on the frame, 1+ lbs on the seat belt, 1 lb on the fire extinguisher, 0.5 lbs on the windows, 50 grams on the starter ESC, 0.75 lbs on the axles...... but the tires are going to weigh an extra 900 grams. And depending on which engine we run, it may lighter or heavier and which size starter motor we have to use.
Based on a few team websites, it looks like a bunch of the teams who skipped last year's competition should be there this year. I saw several teams with perfect carbon fiber bodies made with CNC cut female molds.