Gauging Interest on a potential GroupBuy- Carbon Fibre Exhaust surround

[ripped_fear]

mate , Doing an awesome job !, i read through but couldnt see how you are carbon-ing it?

 

Dipping or wrap?

 

Thanks bud and the orginal plan was to wrap it, and coat in a clear coat or resin, but am looking into actually laying real carbon onto it.

 

So still un-decided, got a few test to do, on some different products before I make the decision.

[Dave]

mate , Doing an awesome job !, i read through but couldnt see how you are carbon-ing it?

 

Dipping or wrap?

 

i think hes wrapping it then resin over

[Ross C]

Looking good mate. Canoot wait to see how you get on with this. The fitment looks nice and snug

[welshbuddy]

i think hes wrapping it then resin over

 

ahh sweet , still in for buying one when ready mate! .

[ashbuster]

looking good bud

[Supra Gaz]

Looking good, keep at it dude, im really looking forward to this.

[ripped_fear]

Cheers everyone, should have another update by mid next week, as I should have this one skimmed and sanded by then.

[Stevo]

Looks good mate. You'll do well to keep the price at £40 though if you're skinning it with actual carbon fibre.

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Posted it on behalf of Super Steveo as it ended up in another thread.

 

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[ripped_fear]

Looks good mate. You'll do well to keep the price at £40 though if you're skinning it with actual carbon fibre.

 

This is very true mate, hence why I was going to originally do it wrapped, I'm going to look into it and see how much difference it will make to the price.

[ashbuster]

the kit isnt very expensive and surely you should be able to get 3 out of 1 kit?

30cm x 100cm carbon

[ripped_fear]

the kit isnt very expensive and surely you should be able to get 3 out of 1 kit?

30cm x 100cm carbon

 

Maybe mate, but you have to remember in the £50 price tag I also have to cover, postage, fibre glass, resin, filler, etc etc. It soon mounts up.

 

I still havent disregarded it though.

[Stevo]

Maybe mate, but you have to remember in the £50 price tag I also have to cover, postage, fibre glass, resin, filler, etc etc. It soon mounts up.

 

I still havent disregarded it though.

 

Yeah, it does soon mount up, and remember you need to put a price on your own time too obviously.

This method takes longer and although you're not doing this solely for profit, you need to get something out of it. Even minimum wage is £6 per hour!

[ashbuster]

hi mate

you get the resin in the kit too

could you just make it out of carbon instead of using fibreglass, thats what i thought

[ripped_fear]

Yeah, it does soon mount up, and remember you need to put a price on your own time too obviously.

This method takes longer and although you're not doing this solely for profit, you need to get something out of it. Even minimum wage is £6 per hour!

 

I have been working it out hour wise, and even to this point I have put over 4hour worth of work into it, and the hours wouldn't even be covered in the price TBH this doesn't concern me too much as this is just a one off thing to help some people out. Im hoping buying the products in fair size quantitys I will be able to get the price down my end.

[N4FY D]

Is there any chance i can get in on one of these when there ready i have been looking for one for ages

[lexmk4]

i wouldn't mind paying a little extra for the real carbon stuff

[ripped_fear]

Is there any chance i can get in on one of these when there ready i have been looking for one for ages

 

Yes mate, No worries. There will however be limited numbers made. I will keep this thread update on the final product and then i will make a new one with the actual group buy. Keep your eyes peeled for that

[ripped_fear]

i wouldn't mind paying a little extra for the real carbon stuff

 

[ripped_fear]

Got a bit more done on the exhaust surround today,

 

Had it skimmed in filler and rubbed it down today, going to give it another skim then it should be nearly ready for the wrapping.

 

 

 

 

[JakeG]

Nice work bud, I was having a think about this last night, iirc the times I have seen people testing clearcoat over carbon wrap it has been a spray can and didn't come out well, if you could get a hold of just the Resin that comes with the carbonmodz kit then I think it would work fine over the carbon wrap stuff

[ripped_fear]

Nice work bud, I was having a think about this last night, iirc the times I have seen people testing clearcoat over carbon wrap it has been a spray can and didn't come out well, if you could get a hold of just the Resin that comes with the carbonmodz kit then I think it would work fine over the carbon wrap stuff

 

Thanks bud this is one option, and probably will be the option that is selected as it will give the best of both worlds, cheap price and nice result. But if I use clear coat it WILL NOT be a rattle can it will be done using top spec car clear coat. I have had clear coat used over the top of lots of things inthe past and all have turned out well, but this will be decided soon as to weather it will work on this or not.

[dan294]

I'd also be up for one of these, sick of cleaning the black burn marks off my bumper!

[ripped_fear]

I'd also be up for one of these, sick of cleaning the black burn marks off my bumper!

 

You would still have to clean it off this though

[mattdavies]

I am up for one of these

 

Would you be able to make them with a rounded top as opposed the the square / rectangular style ?