D.K's LCR, #Projectcarbon. Still alive

[D.K]

 

[xDaNx]

How well will that stand upto stonechips? I had mine hydrodipped but it's absolutely ruined now.

 

[acid_ash]

awesome car dude loving the carbon

 

[rainbird]

New grill/badge looks sick, great work!

 

[D.K]

How well will that stand upto stonechips? I had mine hydrodipped but it's absolutely ruined now.

It's real carbon coated in epoxy resin then lacquered so it holds up pretty well, my lower splitter is the same and there's no chips on it at all.

awesome car dude loving the carbon

Thanks mate

New grill/badge looks sick, great work!

I've got a couple more new bits that should be finished soon

 

[rainbird]

Wish I had the knowhow to put together parts like that. Maybe I'll look into it down the line once I've got all the fundamental stuff out of the way. Shall look forward to some future updates!

 

[Jcrosskey]

Any other plans for carbon fibre? Looks great against the colour of ur car. Have you considered having ur alloys dipped carbon fibre? Not sure if it would be too much or look great

 

[D.K]

Wish I had the knowhow to put together parts like that. Maybe I'll look into it down the line once I've got all the fundamental stuff out of the way. Shall look forward to some future updates!

It's an expensive habit but with enough practise and patience you'll pick up how to do it, just start on something simple and be prepared to waste a lot of money getting it right

Any other plans for carbon fibre? Looks great against the colour of ur car. Have you considered having ur alloys dipped carbon fibre? Not sure if it would be too much or look great

Thanks mate
I wouldn't do the wheels, if I did they wouldn't be dipped
I've got a couple of bits for mine on the go at the moment.

Got this from a friend that makes them




Next stage for this will be a wet sand to smooth the weave out then another couple of coats of clear resin and then some lacquer when I'm happy with it.


I'm also working on a new LCR splitter, it'll be the same as my old one that had a carbon centre, I'm undecided whetaer the sides will be silver like before of if they will be gloss black.

These are a few bits I'm doing for a friends R32,
This is only half of it

 

[LCsTed]

Awesome !!

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[Jcrosskey]

Dam I wish I had a friend with ur skills lol

 

[D.K]

Few more bits done

 

[Jcrosskey]

Is doing carbon just a hobby or something u actually do? Looks amazing

 

[D.K]

Thanks mate It is really just a hobby but I do do quite a lot of it now.

 

[J.B.]

Looks great.

 

[malco]

beautiful, loving the carbon with the silver

 

[Atteman]

How's this project going?

 

[spudboy6]

I may have missed it in the many pages of your thread but how did you wide
Mouth the bumper ?

 

[gb]

Good to see the old girl still looking amazing Darren

 

[gaz700]

186 pages...must be one of the most committed car owners out there,great car well done!...you should prob sell it soon....to me!

 

[D.K]

Well she's still alive


Not much has happened with the car over the last 2 years, we moved house last year so any spare time I've had has been spent getting the old house ready to sell and then sorting out the new one.
The car also got it's own house

Although she's been evicted back to the drive to make way for a temp workshop.

One small job that I have had done was to have the roof wrapped gloss black by S6Wraps.


I've got a couple of nasty jobs to do, brake pressure sensors and one of the lock modules is playing up, other than that she's in good mechanical order.

I'm hopefully going to a rolling road day in a few weeks so I might have some new photos soon