home made carbon fiber laminating
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From: New Jersey
My Ride: '05 545 Titanium Silver, Black Leather - Nav, Logic 7, Cold weather.
Mods:
Carbon filter removed.
M5 iDrive knob.
Umnitza license plate LEDs.
MP3
40% 3M tint
ACS Anti-Roll(sway) bars
RPI Scoop
G-tech Pro RR
CF Roundels
CF Wheel caps
Originally Posted by tufy' post='1016784' date='Sep 25 2009, 11:32 AM
mistakes
1- you have to place fabric on once. if you place it wrong you cannot took it off and place againg same fabric. you need a need fabric.
2- you should fix all faullts on fabric before you aply rezin on it.
3 bubles in rezin will look so ugly. you should use hair dryer to make them go
4-you should apply enough rezin equally so you will have room to sandpaper it.
becaue when sandpapering rezin, if you sandpaper it so much to have smooth surface fabric will be worn out.
more outside trim photos will come soon
1- you have to place fabric on once. if you place it wrong you cannot took it off and place againg same fabric. you need a need fabric.
2- you should fix all faullts on fabric before you aply rezin on it.
3 bubles in rezin will look so ugly. you should use hair dryer to make them go
4-you should apply enough rezin equally so you will have room to sandpaper it.
becaue when sandpapering rezin, if you sandpaper it so much to have smooth surface fabric will be worn out.
more outside trim photos will come soon
CF fabric is delicate when not cured in the resin and proper CF fabrication uses vacumn to help remove the bubbles and baking to cure the resin. It would be unfortunate after all that work to sand into the CF fabric...ouch! Not sure if I will attempt to do this myself now
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From: Thousand Oaks, California
My Ride: 2008 550i Jet Black on Black Leather, SAT with Paddles, Logic 7, Comfort Seats, NAV, Sport Package, PDC, Xenons, Sirius, Trinity 12W LED Angel Eyes, RPi GT Exhaust, M rear spoiler, ACS Roof Spoiler, Tinted Tail Lights, Bimmian Carbon Fiber Pillar Trim, Bimmian Shadow 550i emblem, RPi Scoop, E60 Forum Cling, Mtec bulbs in fog lights, Mtec 2W LED for License Plate Light Bulbs, K&N Filter, Bimmian LED Smoked Side Markers, Blackout roundels, Carbon Fiber Kidney Grills.
Retired Rides - 1989 325i convertible, 1995 M3, 2002 X5, 2005 545i, 2008 X5 (Lemon)
WOW! 
It looks great, but I think you reassembled the interior incorrectly (the steering wheel SHOULD be on the left side!) 
It looks great, but I think you reassembled the interior incorrectly (the steering wheel SHOULD be on the left side!)
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Joined: Apr 2008
Posts: 2,596
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From: New Jersey
My Ride: '05 545 Titanium Silver, Black Leather - Nav, Logic 7, Cold weather.
Mods:
Carbon filter removed.
M5 iDrive knob.
Umnitza license plate LEDs.
MP3
40% 3M tint
ACS Anti-Roll(sway) bars
RPI Scoop
G-tech Pro RR
CF Roundels
CF Wheel caps
Originally Posted by bimmer530iguy' post='1017019' date='Sep 25 2009, 04:54 PM
Good job, looks real professional! I have one question, can this fabric be applied on a metal surface? I am thinking of applying this on my wheels.
There might be issues with getting the epoxy to stay stuck to the wheel surface but if you were to wrap the wheel then the shape when hardned would keep it in place.
