Since Mark Koch stopped doing the CF thing, who took over his role? I know there's someone who does it. Come out, come out, wherever you are!

like veneer for a desktop? like formica?

I can make stuff but i require 5k up front in cash, 25 prepaid buyers, and a plane ticket out of the country and all orders non-refundable.

Strange, that's how my operation works as well!

he stopped doing it because there is no money to be made, anyone else who does it will stop doing it because there is no money to be made

Well, who's doing it for a hobby then? Jeez.

ur trying to pay off debts SHITHEAD!

what veneers are you talkin about? maybe i can make something for you, im playing around with carbon fiber.. ..



although robx7 is concerned about my health.. ill still give it a try

LMAO, yeah, I suppose this is a long-term quest..

A CF coated R1 Lip.

aw.. you suck.. i thought you wanted a CF desktop..

maybe ms7?

too much work https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/smile.png, paint it the same color as your car and quit being like me https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/smile.png

but you can contact mazdaspeed7 he has a lot of experience working with carbon fiber

arent veneers the cosmetic things you get over your teeth?? CF veneers would look better than gold i think...

https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...1047683785.gif That's what I was thinking when I read the title...why would anyone want carbon fiber fronts?

Its lighter so it makes you faster have you learned nothing from ricers!

If I remember i'll talk to him on aim about it sometime. Thing is you'd have to have enough people to make it worthwhile and then i dunno. Though FD owners seem to have more money than 2nd geners.

Something like this?: http://www.ftd-technics.co.uk/ It looks surprisingly genuine.



Mark

Jackass https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...DIR#>/wink.png I wanted to do that way before you did it, so we'll just have to match. Besides, I thought you had the '99 Spec lip.

I want it to match the CF skirts..





That is pretty cool, but I'm lookin' for the real thing.

we can make almost anything out of CF, but we would need 10 orders ot start making them

Interesting.. I guess I just wanted my OE R-1 lip covered in 3k Twill and clearcoated.

Are you saying you need 10 orders to do that, or 10 orders to make a mold and produce full carbon pieces?

i would make a mold , if you can get 10 guys tha want one (and a lip to make the mold of) i can do it- chris @ spd racing/ pure sports fab

wow thats more work than the whle overlaying process for carbon fiber

you will cry when you tap a curb and that overlay comes loose or cracks

yes i agree

I have ways around that whole cracking thing...

please share, I fix $1,000,000 boats that crack, how can you stop a lip from cracking?

don't run into ****....

Strap an Emu to the front of it.



- Hand

actually my front lip is fairly flexible, i placed a strip of 1/4" rubber under the lip, and i've hit several bumps and humps along the way without it cracking .



i dont think homemade carbon fiber can be made rigid unlike the properly treated carbon fiber from boats...



here are some pics of me bending a peice of carbon fiber i made a while back and one that mark koch made

is that you stepping on it?



how thin is that thing?



one layer of CF, might as well put vinyl on top!

yeah im the one stepping on it. its pretty hard, and i was actually putting some effort to bend it.... obviously within safe amounts of force.



its about 2-3mm thick... i tried to take pics but not sure if they came out right.. here they are though.



the other one i made though has just enough epoxy that the weave wont unravel, so thats why its very flexible



obviously 1 layer is enough for cosmetic purposes such as these applications, i think anything thicker than a couple of layers where you need to use a lot of epoxy will not be very flexible, specially if its rigid as a function, like **** in real cars and boats

Its all in the resin. The cloth isnt what determines if the structure is brittle or as flexible as urethane.

you smell something?

I dont know how you change the properties of epoxy resin to become flexible?



I guess I always assume the worst, tap a curb, fine, hit it and crackola.



stomp on that sill and it will break, stand on it gently and it flexes, its all in the impact.

I thought about that. I'm just gonna go ahead and not hit curbs. It's not like I drive my FD to the store or anything. I really only take it out when I'm confident in my abilities and there's a low traffic level. Can't risk ******' my baby up!

That would be very nice looking... But why did they make the front bump out (outline) where the liscence plate is on the stock bodypiece.

Umm.. I meant R1/R2, not '99-Spec. As to why they made a plate holder - I assume so you have a place to mount a license plate? https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/dunno.gif