DIY Carbon Fiber Sheet Sample Pictures...

[digitalpro5]

I got these samples from carper4mance.com a couple days ago and wanted to show you guys that haven't seen it yet what they look like. In my oppinion they look really cool, and I would get some as soon as I have some off time to do some interior mods.

Pros:
They look cool.
3M Hi performance adhesive (I don't know really just what it sais behind the sheet)
Thickness is good for not to complicated things.
Cons:
The sample I got had imperfections in the resin (the clear top) that the digital camera can pick up. Mainly scratches that look to be imbeded in the resin. Other then the camera picking it up, my eye can't.
To thick if you trying to bend it into a cylinder shape (I was thinking of doing my ebrake but it probably would have fallen off (unless that adhessive is really strong).

Anyways thats my oppinion.

 

[mypfizzle]

um.. arents u supposed to make something with it? -=P
make me a hood outah that s***. -=P

 

[digitalpro5]

um.. arents u supposed to make something with it? -=P
make me a hood outah that s***. -=P

You think it'll be cheaper to use this on a hood or buy a real carbon fiber hood(kiss) . Who knows how much it'll cost to just overlay this stuff on a hood, I say $200, now you go try .

 

[mypfizzle]

my hood is already carbon fiber. -=P ur turn -=P

 

[Micah]

R I C E

 

[digitalpro5]

R I C E

I 2nd that if you did that for a hood and probabaly anything else exterior, I'm sure as an interior thing it'll be ok.

 

[MazdaManic5]

make something outta it. I want to see. Please post pics.

 

[Pretzellogic]

That wouldn't be bad for interior pieces.

 

[KzA]

hmmmm..how about a roof? Only thing would be if it looked liek s***, I would have a giant sticky piece of carbon fiber to do nothing with..

 

[Matthew]

hmmmm..how about a roof? Only thing would be if it looked liek s***, I would have a giant sticky piece of carbon fiber to do nothing with..

i just looked...they dont have anything bigger than like 23x19 inches. you would have to piece it all together.

 

[p5sundevil]

hey digital, SCC did an article on stuff similar to this, with a guy with an s2000, he said he used a heat gun or hair dryer to heat the sheets to get them to bend into the more difficult shapes he wanted, like the passenger side door handle in our cars that isnt on the drivers side, he sdid that weird shape and made it fit and look good somehow just by heating bending heating bending and so forth.

Seems like it would work if your bent it and stuck it on and then it cooled in the new shape.

 

[KYMP5]

im using it in the system were building in the hatch. we are using a lot of fiberglass and then a sheet of this. Its some pretty neat sutff

 

[Matthew]

cool, make sure you post some pics.

 

[KYMP5]

i will if i ever finish it. Im waiting for my new rear seats to coeme in so i can finish the back of the box and console