dreem1er

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You wrapping the window trim, or molding new pieces? Either way it should look sweet.









And you need to take more pics and do a diy, even a basic diy

03tLsNBP

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^ it's a real CF skin. but it's not coming out how i had hoped. for some reason the resin got all discolored in some places. it looks like shit.


once i figure out what i am doing, ill make a carbon fiber DIY. i need to learn it myself first though.

dreem1er

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I meant are you wrapping them in real cf or making a mold and making a whole new piece in cf, also if it discolored make sure the resin is evenly mixed, and spread evenly

03tLsNBP

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it's a wrap. i guess it wasn't mixed evenly then. i'm beginning to really hate working with carbon fiber.

03tLsNBP

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Some random pictures from the meet last night. I didn't take many because I was too busy looking at all the gorgeous cars there.


Me and my friend's Legacy GT





A guy leaking coolant



One of my favorites there



A wall of amps



Tee Ill on air ride



F-15 (http://www.news12.com/articleDetail....news_type=news)




And a pro shot upon entry

03tLsNBP

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Just chillin in the rain

klectic

Sittin nice! I'm one of the very rare who like the Weather Techs lol.

Is it the picture quality or something, but what happened with the corner of your rear lip?

03tLsNBP

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Thanks! The rear lip is sagging so it's held up by duct tape so the mufflers don't melt it. The car is going into the body shop to do the rear bumper, lip, and trunk soon.


Working on getting an exhaust clip. Just got some additional work done yesterday. 3 inch from cat back, dynomax resonator, 2.25 inch to each muffler, realigned rear mufflers for Wings West lip. It is LOUD but not raspy at all. Very deep and mean sounding. I get wheelspin all the way through 1st and 2nd gear. Kinda want to get headers now.

03tLsNBP

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exhaust vid is up

03tLsNBP

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will try to get more and better videos up. i didn't want to cause too much havoc in my neighborhood.

kidduce

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That's awesome.

04mojogt

Your car looks so nice. Only thing that bothers me is the red Mirrors. I think a Brushed Aluminum like the Audi's have would look better. But either way nice car. The Black is so Glossy.

03tLsNBP

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Hmmm, brushed aluminum eh? I didn't even think of that. It would look pretty good. I'll consider getting some aluminum vinyl and trying it out. Thanks for the compliments!

dreem1er

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Damn it took you long enough, and light a xmas tree on fire in your neighborhood, thats havoc. A little exhaust noise never killed anyone.




Aslo in the driveway reving it sounds alittle fart cany buy personally what bothers me about exhaust is drone, you can't really compare the two but my friend had a camed out z28 with slp loud mouth and straight pipes and that thing wakes the dead at idle and the drone is ridiculous....thats his daily btw

04mojogt

Yep Def. Cant wait to see how that looks.

03tLsNBP

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Well I just didn't want to do multiple drive by's and have the neighbors call the cops on me or something. They know me and they know that's my car.

I wish you could hear it in real life man. My crappy mic doesn't do this exhaust justice. Does drone a bit but at WOT...wow.

03tLsNBP

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130 bucks



edit: nvm my dSLR doesn't even have a mic input...hmmm...

dreem1er

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Your neighbors suck, me and few friends got piss drunk one night about 6 months after xmas, somehow one of them got a lighter and found a tree, crazy big fire last about a minute, and no one called the cops on us...but they weren't happy about either





Take a trip to Mia and i could hear it person

03tLsNBP

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^ lol you crazy.


And dude I would love to drive down to Miami. Might not happen any time soon but I want to.

03tLsNBP

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There's just something I find so sexy about carbon fiber




As y'all have seen in previous pics, my trunk is ruined. So I finally said fuck it and layed the CF down.



Gonna have my friend help me with the epoxy so I don't fuck up too bad lol.

03tLsNBP

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I didn't lay it down too straight (I did this by myself) but I actually don't mind the imperfections. With the resin on, I don't think it will look bad.

dreem1er

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it a real sheet of cf? Better than vinyl, but its also thicker isn't it?

03tLsNBP

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Yup, real 12K 300gsm weight CF. It's 0.016" thick lol.

03tLsNBP

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after 1st coat of epoxy




2nd coat




3rd coat




gonna wetsand with 220 then do a 4th coat.

kidduce

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Pretty cool.

dreem1er

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pics no worky

TL202

great way to make your car look like shit and blow money....lol not worth it.

03tLsNBP

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photobucket might have been down but they work for me now

what are you talking about? the carbon fiber? not worth it? do you speak from experience?

i mean it's a little under a hundred bucks in material. did you see the condition of my trunk before?

03tLsNBP

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after sanding with 220



used heat gun to get rid of air bubbles on 4th coat (was surprised how brilliantly this works)



4th coat set




more sanding and then a 5th and hopefully final coat of epoxy. This is a ton of work! Then the car goes to the body shop to get the rear bumper and lip refitted and painted and the trunk will get clear coated with extra UV protection. I'm really worried about the epoxy yellowing in the sun.

tOny3

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What weave is that? Looks like this weave.. kinda ugly. Props for trying out new things! I wanna see the end result

HairyMonkey019

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^+1

would probably look better when it's done, especially since ur car is nbp

03tLsNBP

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yeah i think it is that weave. 1x1. it should look good when it's done.

03tLsNBP

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5th and final coat



once that is dry, i'll sand with 220, 400, 600, 800, 1000, 1500. then it can go off to clear coat.

03tLsNBP

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closeup of the CF



farther away shot

tOny3

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Like i said earlier, props for trying new things out but that weave is ugly IMO.. should've went with the traditional weave.

03tLsNBP

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yeah the traditional 3k 2x2 would've been easier to epoxy too. although it falls apart easier when on its own.

definitely going with 2x2 for the hood.

n1njai

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Car looks a lot better now with the mirrors not being completely red. CF trunk should look real nice, just make sure to wet sand it a good amount of times. Good luck!

03tLsNBP

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In other news I took care of some maintenance items.

cleaned P2R air filter



PIAA extreme white 921 reverse lights

Before (left side):



After (left side):



After:




Nokya 2500K 9006 fog lights

Before:



After:



After (comparison shot):



After:

dreem1er

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pics worky again :woot



Hid fogs would've been better, and some hid reverse lights tailgater hater for $80 so worth it

03tLsNBP

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I wanna do projector fogs so that's when I'll upgrade to HIDs. But that's a 2013 project lol.