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phillycivicsi 08-12-2009 01:36 AM

Dude that is sick!!!

Scapegoat 08-12-2009 08:11 AM

he needs to do the rest of the car

R33E8 08-12-2009 08:23 AM

Hahaha.. You guys know that real carbon fiber is less than $3 a square foot, right?


:lol:

Scapegoat 08-12-2009 08:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by R33E8 (Post 1469296)
Hahaha.. You guys know that real carbon fiber is less than $3 a square foot, right?


:lol:

you do know this stuff is a lot easier to work with considering it only requires an xacto blade and something to apply heat

:lol:

OMGz Turbo 08-12-2009 09:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scapegoat (Post 1469298)
you do know this stuff is a lot easier to work with considering it only requires an xacto blade and something to apply heat

:lol:

:banana: WTF do i want REAL carbon that id have to use resin with when i can have this **** and a razor blade and be baller.

Scapegoat 08-12-2009 09:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by OMGz Turbo (Post 1469359)
:banana: WTF do i want REAL carbon that id have to use resin with when i can have this **** and a razor blade and be baller.

Wow... so much maturity... iirc, upperguy mentioned this was the same material used on the interior by bmw? While I'm not saying, "wrap your hood" with the stuff... I see no issues wrapping interior bits for accent pieces.

Its really damned if you damned if you don't in this place... you get called a ricer for swapping out interior components with actual carbon fiber parts IF they're available (because its negliable weight savings) and you get called a ricer for wrapping it in a high quality vinyl product that is cheaper than the part would be if it was available.

Granted, I won't be wrapping any part of my car with this stuff. I picked it up to wrap my Eee, as you can see a couple pages back. I sure as hell am not wasting my time and money building a carbon fiber case and then transfering the hardware over.

I picked up some extra to dick around with too. Its a fun material to work with.

upperguy 08-12-2009 12:33 PM

You know what guys, I wrote up a whole big thing but deleted it because it's not worth my time. If you don't like it what is the draw for you to come in and **** on it? want to see what it's really like? I'll give you a sample or bring some to the 309 meet tomorrow night. I don't even know why I waste my time though, Chances are you will back out last second after I cancel plans to meet up with you.

Scape, thanks again for backing the product up, let me know if you need any more.

GearHead899 08-12-2009 01:06 PM

looks like a really cool product. you could deffinantly do some unique stuff with it. and as for everyone downing this product, like he said, you dont have to buy/ use it so theirs no need to put it down

Username 08-12-2009 03:58 PM

http://www.rvinyl.com/film/carbonfiber.htm

Check out RVinyl.com's Carbon Fiber wraps.... totally cheap, and looks amazing. I have worked first hand with some of the wraps and when done right, you cant even tell a roof/hood/trunk is wrapped. It looks like real CF. Plus its reallllllly cheap for a huge roll of it.

SeMaxima99 08-12-2009 05:16 PM

where is this on 3m website?

upperguy 08-12-2009 10:23 PM

Username, I can ship you out a sample and you can see this 3m stuff. I've seen almost all the carbon look wraps on the market and in my opinion none of them really come close to this stuff.

Maxima, I don't know if the material is actually listed on 3M's site to be honest, I've never really looked.

fc3spower 08-12-2009 11:16 PM

im in! pm me

Hopia 08-13-2009 07:18 AM

Where exactly is the 309 meet?
i'll try to escape from inlaws & go there.:mrgreen:

upperguy 08-13-2009 10:12 AM

Here's a link to the meet info: http://www.tristatetuners.com/forum/...ad.php?t=76923

I'm gonna bring the material too so if you decide you want to pick some up I'll have it on hand.:)

Hopia 08-13-2009 11:11 AM

Man, thats 2hrs. away from me one-way!
i hope you can give me a good deal if i decide
to buy like 3yrds.

upperguy 08-16-2009 10:56 PM

So a friend who went in on a bunch of the material with me initially did his suby and then one of his friend's Miata. Here is the aftermath:
http://www.drycarbonwrap.com/installs/suby01.jpg
http://www.drycarbonwrap.com/installs/suby02.jpg
http://www.drycarbonwrap.com/installs/suby03.jpg
http://www.drycarbonwrap.com/installs/suby04.jpg
http://www.drycarbonwrap.com/installs/suby05.jpg
http://www.drycarbonwrap.com/installs/suby06.jpg
http://www.drycarbonwrap.com/installs/suby07.jpg
http://www.drycarbonwrap.com/installs/suby08.jpg
http://www.drycarbonwrap.com/installs/suby09.jpg
http://www.drycarbonwrap.com/installs/suby10.jpg
http://www.drycarbonwrap.com/installs/suby11.jpg
http://www.drycarbonwrap.com/installs/suby12.jpg
http://www.drycarbonwrap.com/installs/suby13.jpg
http://www.drycarbonwrap.com/installs/suby14.jpg
http://www.drycarbonwrap.com/installs/suby15.jpg

About midway through the day his friend showed up in his 2 hour old miata, The rear piece was rhinolined with some crap. They sanded what hadn't chipped off and applied the wrap there:
http://www.drycarbonwrap.com/installs/miata01.jpg
http://www.drycarbonwrap.com/installs/miata02.jpg
http://www.drycarbonwrap.com/installs/miata03.jpg

some general pics of the vinyl.
http://www.drycarbonwrap.com/installs/general01.jpg
http://www.drycarbonwrap.com/installs/general02.jpg

jbell 08-17-2009 12:59 PM

hey, those are my pics, my driveway, and my friends!
:)

Spoolin_VQ30DE 08-17-2009 08:03 PM

nice pmed you bro

disturbedfan121 08-18-2009 12:39 AM

thats my friends steves miata who he bought off my friend mike lol. saw those cars that night. stuff looks sick!......seriously considering doing this to my hardtop so i don't have to paint it...

you know rabbit? jay? Nick? steve? etc....if so how do i not know you lol

polarexpress17 08-18-2009 01:32 AM

this is NICE! how much do you think it would take to do a hood, roof and hatch?

actually, it could take a ****load if you dont know what the measurements are :lol:

i'll go grab some real quick


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