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Originally Posted by Blacdout96
As a person who has worked with carbon/kevlar/glass fibre on a regular basis, it is not the same. To get a smooth finish you will need to vacuum mold a sheet and cut it. Normal layup of CF will leave air bubbles, strands will show, and to thick/thin areas will show with a haze. and you would have to cut the CF after it cured since cutting it before epoxy will leave the end strands stickign out everywhere, which means you'll have the grind and cut what you want.
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Opinions should be kept out of threads like this. If he wants something to look like carbon fiber more power to him. I completely understand, I have a lot of CF on my car now and only some of it will be painted. I planned on doing inverse stripes with my car too, but I probably wont be painting until next year
I dont like any of the imitation CF because it cant copy the way CF reflects the light.
I will agree with most of said statements though about laying it up. You CAN get it to look nice without vacuum bagging it but it takes practice. All of my stuff is made from real CF and is vacuum bagged BUT it still has air bubbles (tiny) and is hazy but there is a way to make the CF look nice after it is layed up, unfortunately one way is to put more resin on it after it is all said and done, then you sand and buff it. Looks great when it is done but it is much thicker than vacuum bagging it and is most of the reason for the CF in the first place.
But like mentioned, you arent going to be able to only lay out the CF where you want it. The edges are going to look like crap. You are going to have to wrap the whole piece to get it to look nice, then you can concentrate on getting the areas you want smooth and presentable and you can use any means necessary to get the rest of the part that will be covered to look nice.