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Thats exactly the plan, you must think like me.Could you just paint the outside of it and then a satin lacquer on the inside to still show the carbon but look neat?
Thats exactly the plan, you must think like me.Could you just paint the outside of it and then a satin lacquer on the inside to still show the carbon but look neat?
Bit too fancy for me on this build. Though it would be easy to do, as the colour I am using is essentially a candy and requires either silver or white base below it. Leave out the base and the carbon will show through slightly. Though it would the same as a dark grey base so the final colour would end up darker than the rest of the car.Maybe not suited to an older car, but nice when the weave shows through the final top colour? Like this:It's either carbon (or anything else for that matter) for function, or for show.
Its dry carbon on the inside, only reason I am coating it at all is to prevent dirt and dust from being attracted to it. I think a single coat of satin clear should be enough, don't want to be adding weight.Good idea to leave the weave visible on the inside though
For me, on the cars, its only ever for weight saving aside from the odd small trim piece, such as the rear wing. That full dry carbon bonnet is over 10kg lighter than the stock one.It's either carbon (or anything else for that matter) for function, or for show.
Yeah, I'm really happy with that choice. Its House of Kolor candy apple red. It might get re done as its got a few small signs of wear, but I'll wait until engine is back in. I'll re do it in the same colour, pity its not really a job I can do myself as its not worth the hassle of trying to get House of Colour products, so it would be back to AG Automotive for this.That red for the rocker cover is lovely!
Unfortunately I don't have budget to do everything myself yet, as I would have liked to do this. That being said, I'm sure it would take a while before I could get a result as good as Awlyn from Parts restore NI gets, he has been doing it for a while and does a lot of zinc plating work.Fantastic @EF Ian where did you get the bolts etc re-plated?
Cheers, must give him a shout.Unfortunately I don't have budget to do everything myself yet, as I would have liked to do this. That being said, I'm sure it would take a while before I could get a result as good as Awlyn from Parts restore NI gets, he has been doing it for a while and does a lot of zinc plating work.
Funny i follow him on Bakebook and his work looks top notchAwlyn from Parts restore NI
You wouldn't get the same results right away either.I'd thoughts of getting kit to do plating for myself too, but quite frankly life is too short in my opinion!
Most likely, though not 100% yet, other options are Dave Rowe @ EPS or Romain Levesque @ Racecal. Also having thoughts about bringing one over here for the mapping so they can do my Civic alsoBack to Greg gush to tune with the changes or who will you trust?
90% of those are brand new.Not just get new clips
Cool photo. Yes, I remember, that sounded very cool, was the trip as good as expected?I remember us talking at the Blackwater cars and coffee a few months ago, and I mentioned I was renting one of these in Japan. It far exceeded my expectations, they're a great car with a great chassis. This one was certainly a bit rough though, but I really want one now!
Didn't really like Martins attitude, doubt I'd use him over Greg. If I were to get one over, might see if anyone else is in the market, and would need to sort a dyno.Don’t discount MB automotive either. Both him and Greg were happy to entertain coming over when I chatted to them before.
He can be slow, but its a step above normal platers. He even kept all my fiddly bits in the zip lock bags I gave them in, not even a small washer lost.Can recommend Alwyn at Parts Restore as well! Very particular with cleaning threads and bolt heads before plating, worth a bit extra over general platers that have lost stuff on me before! Just make sure to allow for a while to get them through cause he has a lot of work on.
Thanks. Looking forward to getting onto them properly. Was sorting some equipment, parts washer and a bigger oven. So far I've only given them the initial degrease, theres a load of hard caked on grease so will be needing a good bit more in the parts washer before they are ready for the acetone bath. But 1L of burnt bronze arrived yesterday, looking forward to spraying this as I haven't used this colour yet.It was great to get seeing the engine and the BMW Ian, your work is even better in person than it looks in the photos! Excited to see these calipers
Thanks. I love the look of the R34 badge, but I couldn't very well have it saying skyline could I, so got this made exactly the same, but with 260Z. Its one of my favorite finishing touches on build.The 260Z detail on the rocker cover is a nice touch!