Carbon Fiber Wrap

Will,

His name is Chris Ashton. He actually replaced the hood and deck with Carbon fiber look fiberglass pieces and Wrapped the roof to match . I know because I have the steel hood off of his can on mine!
If I remember correctly, he had another (nicer) version of the wrap that he was going to use on the roof.
Here is the articla on his car.

http://www.pim.net/PIMSpring2010.pdf

Ron

The 3M stuff is the best and most real appearing. Check out http://www.carbonfiberfilm.com/ . They offer all the colors.
I think it takes some patience and practice to put the stuff on. I have seen it done but never tried myself.

Will,

Here is the thread on the car you were talking about. If you scroll down the page a bit there are pics of his car with the carbon hood and sticker on the roof. On this page he also talks about a different brand of carbon sticker that is more “three dimensional” in look. Click here for thread on Pantera #3427

Also here is a link to Chris’ webpage.http://augerresources.com/ashtonsgarage/

P.S. Chris gave me some pointers on my car and is very helpful.

There are companies that can do the install if you run into problems.

It can be tough to get every little bubble out. Also wrap material comes in different thicknesses and grades, affecting ease of use. I'd recommend at least talking to a professional installer and using his services if considering wrapping a whole car.

Wrap is not good on compound curves so cuts need to be made, these don't show up when you see photos of wrapped cars online, I'd recommend you go physically look at one that has been done. Fortunately a Pantera doesn't have too many modern compound curves.

There's a Ford GT on and off Ebay that has full carbon wrap and IMO it looks like sh*t.

Julian

I'm going to wrap a boxer wing with small scoop on it.
Will

Another

Will can you post more pics of your wing... did you make it... looks good...

I agree its tough ... but a good start is with DOVE soap and water on the paint its getting applied to and then the sticky side ...this enables you to slide it around for a short time and get the bubbles out ... another trick is pop the bubble with a needle and smoothen the air out. Make sure the car and the decal is warm ...not hot and not cold where its not plyable.

Ron

For a smaller part like that you can also consider the shrink wrap style, heat it with a hairdryer to form aroud more complex parts.

Why not cast a mold and lay it up in CF?

Julian