Small project help

General Composites Discussions Composites Talk
#1

I’m thinking about trying to do a very small project on my car with carbon fiber. There are two small parts that I would like to have done in carbon fiber but I’m not sure how to go about doing this. Right now I have an overlay on the part that I bought from someone and it looks great but there is a sharp corner and I always seem to catch it on something when I’m washing the car or even when I’m just getting in it. I was thinking there has to be a way around this and still have a good looking part. Here are a couple of pictures of what I’m wanting to work on. In the 1st picture there is a vinyl sticker over the area that I’m wanting to have carbon fiber. The second picture is to give you more of an idea of the shape of the part (it’s # 12). The 1st picture isn’t my car. Tomorrow I’ll get a picture of my car so you can see more clearly what I’m wanting to do.

here are my current overlays I would like to make the final product look like this but have it wrap around the edges so there is nothing to snag on the corners


#2

Ok well I’ve been looking at this part trying to figure out the best way to get this thing covered. Right now I’m thinking of making a mold of the face. I figure then I could glue the carbon fiber overlay have it wrap around the corners of the part. Then I could also trim the bottom so it would still match the rubber weather strip on the door

#3

I make a similar product. You can either wrap the original piece or take a mold. After adding material of equal thickness of the carbon to the part and then mold as usual.

#4

Very cool is that an overlay?

#5

yeah, those are permanently bonded to the OE pieces, I actually switched up now though and just sell them as an attached overlay piece. I wasn’t getting the core units back from alot of people and having to buy new ones from the dealer.

#6

you have some neat stuff CD…you should write up a tutorial or two on the overlays.

That overlay stuff is much harder than making complete parts.