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Had my bonnet re done (new carbon skinned)


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So my bonnet on the rex was looking a bit worse for wear... Its a very rare Full carbon DWR bonnet (as far as I know the only one in the UK). The lacquer had gone cloudy in places and the actual resin had discoloured a yellow ish colour. I was thinking of just swapping it for a new carbon bonnet but liked the fact mine was rare.

 

I'd already had the lacquer re done last year but they did a pretty bad job, so did a bit of searching and found a company called Sycross near York (about an hour and a half from me in Manchester). Took my bonnet up to Adam there last week and just picked it up yesterday. Went for a full re skin in carbon. Bonnet now looks brand new, they did an awesome job...

 

This is what it looked like with the damage to the lacquer etc...

 

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And this is how it turned out...

 

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Also got my carbon headlight covers refurbed at the same time. And all this cost me less than half it would have to buy a new bonnet... Well happy :) roll on dragonball now :thumbs:

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That looks great!

 

Good to know that refurb work like this is possible with carbon fibre.

 

Do you know exactly what the refurb process involves to restore the carbon to this level of finish? Surely a new 'skin' of carbon would increase the original thickness of the bonnet? I'm intrigued.

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That looks great!

 

Good to know that refurb work like this is possible with carbon fibre.

 

Do you know exactly what the refurb process involves to restore the carbon to this level of finish? Surely a new 'skin' of carbon would increase the original thickness of the bonnet? I'm intrigued.

 

We will see when I fit it tomorrow, but I'm pretty sure he sands down through to the bare carbon, then lays a skin on top, then re lacquers... He gave me two options, the first was just sanding and re lacquering but he said the yellow look on the bonnet would still be visible as it was the actual resin that had the uv damage, or he could skin the bonnet. Obviously went for the second...

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Cool, interested to see how the fit is with a re-skin.

 

I'm still trying to find someone who is able to carbon skin the lower lip of my TRD front bumper (rather than just having it carbon wrapped as it is now) if anyone knows of anybody? I want something similar to the carbon lower lip cover you can get for the OEM 350Z front bumper made up.....

 

http://www.350z-uk.com/topic/70300-carbon-lip-cover/

 

I think this would be quite popular with all those sporting a TRD front bumper with the center 'tooth' removed if I could get a few made up by someone. Al Massey was looking into it with a carbon specialist guy he knew, but I don't think it's gone anywhere. Any help or advice anyone could give with this would be much appreciated :thumbs:

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Cool, interested to see how the fit is with a re-skin.

 

I'm still trying to find someone who is able to carbon skin the lower lip of my TRD front bumper (rather than just having it carbon wrapped as it is now) if anyone knows of anybody? I want something similar to the carbon lower lip cover you can get for the OEM 350Z front bumper made up.....

 

http://www.350z-uk.com/topic/70300-carbon-lip-cover/

 

I think this would be quite popular with all those sporting a TRD front bumper with the center 'tooth' removed if I could get a few made up by someone. Al Massey was looking into it with a carbon specialist guy he knew, but I don't think it's gone anywhere. Any help or advice anyone could give with this would be much appreciated :thumbs:

 

So managed to fit last night. The bonnet is maybe 1.5mm thicker on top (as I'm going to have to adjust my bonnet pins very slightly). On the edges maybe 1mm wider but as its uniform you honestly can't tell at all :thumbs:

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