audi, production03.04.2010

It’s a little after 1am and I just got done clearcoating a bunch of stuff.  I was going to wait until the morning to start posting pictures of everything, but I was so happy with how the sets turned out, I’m just going to start right now.

First up is the A3 set.  It’s the easiest set I’ve done to date, but that’s only because its 5 pieces total (where most are at least 8).  However, it’s still a little tricky because of the end caps on the door pieces and the fact that the shifter is slightly convex (most shifter plates are flat).

On to the pictures:

The set as a whole.  I’m so naive about A3 sets, I didn’t even know how to position the door pieces.  I can’t tell if these door pieces are upside down or right side up and was way too lazy to check it out online to pose them for the picture.  You get the idea though.

I’m really happy about how the shifter turned out, but I am still slightly nervous to see how it will look installed.  I’m only worried because on most of the Audi shifter plates you have a little room for error along the inside edge of the rim that is covered by a chrome ring or a shift boot or something.  Not so on this A3 shifter.  I’ll have to hold my breath until I see some pics of it installed.

Love these close ups.

You can’t tell from these pictures, but there are a few imperfections that still need to be polished out (you might be able to spot some if you look hard enough).  I’ll let these cure over the rest of the weak and hopefully I can get them polished up and sent to their owner by the middle of next week.

carbon fiber03.03.2010

This was special ordered for a customer of mine.  I’m not going to go into any details about the car its going on right now, but I’m pretty excited about it.  Stay tuned for more…

free samples03.02.2010

Three cans of Mountain Dew later and I finished getting 70 more samples ready with labels and postage.  I also managed to get another 150 or so ready with carbon fiber, so I’ll just have to stick on a label and stamps for the 3rd round.

I was even nice enough to pay for the extra postage so a few of our neighbors to the north could get some samples.  I hope they are grateful for this gesture of diplomacy between our great nations.

audi03.01.2010

I haven’t stayed on top of updating the blog with the progress on all this custom A5 stuff, so I’ll just do one huge post with everything (I’m almost done with a lot of it, so there will be more updates on it in the coming days).

These seatbacks are going to look amazing once installed.  They are my first custom colored seatbacks, so I’m really looking forward to seeing them against a black interior.

After the first coat of resin.

Matching interior trim after several coats of resin.

Building up resin on the seatbacks.  These were tricky because of the shape.  I had to prop them up because I didn’t want resin pooling in the deeper parts of the grooves.

Trim was cured and ready to be trimmed and sanded up.

Final coats of resin on the seatbacks.

After the seatbacks had cured.  They’ll still need a lot of work trimming and sanding.  Getting them smooth will take some effort.

After the trim has been cleaned up.  I’ll be shooting the clearcoat on these in the next few days.  Really happy with how they turned out.

audi03.01.2010

I just realized I never posted any pictures of my first C5 A6 carbon fiber trim set.  These have been sent to a customer in Canada but they’ve yet to arrive.  Hopefully he gets them soon so I can get some images of them installed.  I’m really happy with how it turned out.