We did two of these 2011 Camaro’s roofs. On one of the cars we also overlaid a cowl hood center and front bumper cover center.
The weave was straighter on the white car than on this orange car. But the pic also makes the weave look more wavy than it actually is in person.
The white car pics…
more white car pics…
looks amazing that. great work. new desktop pic!!
Beautiful work!
some more overlay parts we finished tonight…
wow this is a very good work. How you apply the gelcoat? with gun? with bruss?
Very Nice!
is ther a big market for this?
Those look cool!
With the roof and bonnet, have you covered the whole piece and then it was painted or, you’ve done just a part of it. And if just a part, how it’s done??
Fastrr - Nice job. What’s the name of your shop?
Royale- Carbon Fiber Creations
the camaro roof on the white car and the white car hood are just partial overlays, not entire panel. If i had more time i would have overlaid the entire roof of the white car.
we use clear epoxy resin on small overlay parts. larger items like roof we used VER and clear gel coat with a 50% mix of duratec clear addative.
Thank you all for the comments We are working on a 240sx dash currently… entire dash overlay. I’ll post pics when it’s completed.
Fastrr,
Loving the roof and bonnet…
Can you talk me through what resin you used and what you clear coated it with.?
Cheers stu
Twill weave is a pig to keep straight. I know of at least one weaver that installs a thermoplastic scrim to one side of the fabric, so it stays straight during layup.
twill is difficult to keep nice n straight. I lay out the cloth on a flat surface like clean floor. Then i roll it evenly onto a cardboard tube. Then i unroll it onto the mold or car surface. Scrim sounds good though. You could use 4oz fiberglass cloth and spray glue it to one side of the cf. The resin will then disolve the glue.
I used VER resin on the hood and roof. Last coat ( before the urethane clear coat) i sprayed down clear gel coat mixed with 50% Duratec clear gloss addative. Next day i block sanded it all flat and smooth, then urethane clear coated.
A clear polyester would have worked better than the dark amber VER i used. I also tinted my urethane clear with a little black basecoat paint… 1oz to 7oz of clear.
I’m just not sure if there is a clear polyester resin with no surfacing wax in it. The wax would just add extra work and be bad for urethane clear coating.
I’m not an expert on doing car roofs or hoods. I did learn a lot from doing them and hopefully can save some people some trouble or from having many problems.
We also wrapped the cars fully in plastic sheeting to protect the paint and trim work. Wet sanding the roofs made block sanding much easier. If you do a large part use sanding blocks the whole way, and not sand too much in any one area. Keep the block moving across the surface evenly so there are not low or high spots. stop sanding as soon as you see the medium grey hue of carbon showing thru resin… sanding into the carbon itself will cause ugly weave.
Also … the hood on the red camaro is a Seibon hood, we did nothing to it. The fit is good to the car, but the hood is permanently locked closed because of some clearance issue they can’t open their hood.
Brainstorm, i am not sure about market for roof overlays… just depends on how good of a salesman you have or are It’s fairly easy to talk someone into a roof overlay when they have a cf trunk and hood.
Im just getting into overlays at the moment. For small parts i place them under vacum so the csrbon dosent lift round sharp edges. Only reason you usr ver is because you carnt find a clear poly ?
VER tends to have a higher Tg, so less problems with print through when the part is placed in the sun.
Although there are polyesters with a high Tg as well…
Ahhh you have anserd a question i was waiting to ask some of my polyester wraps have shrinkage you pit this down to the resin ?