Carbon Fiber Products
I’ve done a few blue and red carbon kevlar sets for the B8 recently, so I figured I’d give a go at some colored B5 sets. These sets are in the beginning stages of production and will darken up considerably once the resin and clearcoat has been applied, but you can get a good idea of what they will look like in their raw form.
The camera doesn’t really do these pieces justice (my cheapo digital that is covered in resin coupled with fluorescent lights in the warehouse). The look like a bright red and blue, but in person they are more of a deep, subtle color. Once I add the resin, they will darken up a bit as well.
I’ll continue to post pictures of these sets as I run through the production stages.
We were able to make quite a bit of progress on the custom red carbon/kevlar A5 seatbacks today. These should have clearcoat on them by the end of the weekend, and hopefully can be finished up shortly after that.
Sam wetsanding out some of the big scratches after he blocked it smooth.
A quick rinse to remove all the grit and get a preview of things to come.
It still needs a bit more work to clean up the edges, but for the most part they’re almost ready for clearcoat.
Finally finished polishing up the beltline and will be wrapping it up and shipping it off to its owner tomorrow. It should be at his door step (and hopefully installed) by the end of the week.
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.
