Looking good. Where did you get shotblasting and how much?

Cas coatings at eccleshill! They quote bout £8 a rim!

Cas coatings at eccleshill! They quote bout £8 a rim!

Hmm, not bad at all.

So are you on 16v bumpers now then?

No no! Still reping 8v bumpers! Got some update coming (when the bloke with my dishes pulls his finger out bin a month now!) got some smoked rears possibly some carbon wrapped content!

so got myself a sample piece (10cmx20cm) of 3m di-noc carbon fibre vinyl and did this as a test piece thinking it was inconspicuous (didnt even think about how complicated a shape it was) and i think it turned out well for a sausage fingered first timer and a very tricky shape! this is the trickiest shape I'm going to be doing as ill only be doing a few accent parts!

also my engine cover numbers ("1.4" bit) were looking abit shabby so with a bit of offcut i decided to see what they would be like in carbon, also abit tricky but once its redone in the propper stuff with heat should look a whole lot better!

Dunno about the engine cover... But the first pic looks awesome!

yeah i was thinking its not too great, but better than paint wearing off, might replace the top badge with a vr6 highline badges and spray the whole thing satin black (new scheme is grey, polished alloy, satin black and carbon) would really like a 70mm black wolfsburg badge on that, reckon it would look ace!

Edited 20 October, 201015 yr by Pepe

Like the first pic! looks good. Sample piece for free?

nah mate nothing free anymore lol no it was abot £1.30 to do that, now I'm gonna get some more do the handle pulls (bit that pops off to get door card off), washer jets, inside the lights, might get some more handles and wrap them so i have delocked colour coded, and delocked carbon dunno which would look better

waiting on a price for carbon wrapping of the bbs! they will be sprayed 2k satin black then wrapped so if its to expensive ill keep em satin!

nah mate nothing free anymore lol no it was abot £1.30 to do that, now I'm gonna get some more do the handle pulls (bit that pops off to get door card off), washer jets, inside the lights, might get some more handles and wrap them so i have delocked colour coded, and delocked carbon dunno which would look better

waiting on a price for carbon wrapping of the bbs! they will be sprayed 2k satin black then wrapped so if its to expensive ill keep em satin!

Nice plans - and a bit different too! Looking forward to seeing all these bits done! Lights especially.

cheers they will probably be the last thing i do, might have to get some more and do them then my cars not without headlights for ages! oh and ill probably be doing my rear view morror aswell think thats about it! then itll probably be into winter mode!

Got my smoked rears and converted them to lhd or rhd depending on bulbs etc

my only probl is the fog is too dim for my liking!

more carbon concoctions!!!

getting into this! Makes 14 year old worn black plastic look fresh!!!

Edited 24 October, 201015 yr by Pepe

like

had a spare/bored 20 mins between shifts so....

thinking about taking it back off the mirror sanding the lettering down (completely forgot/disregarded them initially!)

and redoing it this also was the cause of a cracked windscreen (just cracke under hardly any pressure!!) so maybe just maybe, I'll get te 6n2 windscreen depending on prices!

I think that's it for cf wrapping on the interior. Although I might make a mongrel handbrake surround (2x 6n handbrake surrounds) to house the 6n2 handbrake, I think a clever bit of cutting an plastic welding then just wrap it in cf to finish it off! Might do more in th engine bay dunno what tho! Any ideas???

Edited 25 October, 201015 yr by Pepe

I think you should leave the rear view as it is! Did you crack your screen doing that today?! I will never touch my rear view because it seems that everyone cracks theirs!

Yeah well I just rushed putting it back together! The stalk is so easy to get of just spray with some wd40 and tease it anti clock wise! But I put the stalk on and then tried pushing the mirror back on! (dumbass or what!) I pulled the stalk from the back and pushed the mirror on gently and it went! Should have just taken the extra 0.5 seconds and done it properly now! Haha!

eeeesshhh. Gutted.

Tell me bout it just got home and checked my policy I'm not insured!!!

6n2 screen here I come! Haha

anyon with a 6n2 wanna let me use there reg for quotes? Cheers!

when you wrapped your door handles did you stick it around the edges or cut it at the edges :)

Thanks

Do you use a heat gun to get it round all the curvey bits?

yeah just low/medium heat, its really mice stuff to work with! folded it and stuck it round the edges then its nice and secure, especially when you put the handle back in its a tight fit and nips it all up nicely!

Edited 26 October, 201015 yr by Pepe

yeah just low/medium heat, its really mice stuff to work with! folded it and stuck it round the edges then its nice and secure, especially when you put the handle back in its a tight fit and nips it all up nicely!

Thanks :) i got bored and ordered a sample wrapped my towing eye :') the stuff looks amazing!!!!! i cant wait to get my door handles done :p

Well seen as tho I have broken my windscreen AND my rear view mirror I got another off some mates and did mirror mk2! Tried to do the stalk aswell as it has a recessed bit but decided against it, made a better job o this one aswell, sanded the printed bit off so it looked even better!