Carbon fibre overlay overload

[ballsdeep]

Thought I’d give carbon fibre skinning a crack, Iv always hated the rear speaker boxes that the previous owner made so used them as practice. The plan was to replace them with oem speaker grills but I think they’ve turned out pretty good. 

Feeling abit more confident I moved onto doing the dash panels. Starting with a spare ignition panel, you can see one of the holes I filled is showing in the weave but once I applied the resin and flatted it out it’s hardly noticeable. 2 more panels to go and I’m already looking for other parts to do. 

Once I pull the car out of the garage I will get some better day light photos.

 

DAY1

 

Key the surface and apply the base coat 3-1 ration - leave for 2hours until tacky stage

Lay carbon fibre and trim

Leave for 3 hours 

3-1 resin thin coat to wet out the fabric 

Leave for 8 hours

 

DAY2 

 

120 grit sand paper de-nib and flat any high spots 

Key the surface 

 

3 coats of resin each coat needs 2 hours to reach tacky stage 

 

Leave for 8hours 

 

DAY3 

 

Flat with 120 grit 

Then 240 

 

Apply final coat very thin application 

 

Leave atleast 8hrs 

 

DAY4

 

Wet sand 400 800 1200 machine polish or lacquer 

 

[Wishieftrottle]

Very cool. Saved it in pdf for later use

[ballsdeep]

This is the stuff I’m using and there’s a great video tutorial on the website. 

https://www.easycomposites.co.uk/200g-profinish-coated-22-twill-3k-carbon-fibre-cloth
 

They do a package deal but I would recommend putting your own together and go for the 210g ProFinish 2x2 Twill 3k Carbon Fibre Cloth (1000mm) the kits don’t come with the pro finish cloth. It has a resin binder on the reverse side and keeps the weave together during handling and positioning. You will also go through the epoxy resin very fast!

 

If you don’t have a dremel buy one!! I wouldn’t have been able to trim the cloth and sand down the resin drips so neatly without it.