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Old 01-20-2017, 04:43 PM
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Made my own Carbon Fiber Engine Cover

I was looking around for vendors to offer a carbon fiber engine cover, like on the CLA45 with no luck. Since I couldn't find one, I decided to make one. Here is my first attempt at carbon fiber skinning. Its not perfect, but not bad for my first ever attempt. I hope you all enjoy!
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Old 01-20-2017, 05:14 PM
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nice done!
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Wow! Well done!
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Wow that came out great. If you have some time could you outline the steps you took to do this? I think a lot of us would do this ourselves if a first try could turn out like that.
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Nice job. I may be manufacturing some CF parts soon. Just getting everything organized to do so.
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Dude that looks OEM. Great job.
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Thanks everyone! I can tell you that this experience has made me really appreciate the quality and price of professionally made carbon fiber parts from vendors such as rw carbon, mode carbon, etc. It takes days/hours to make one part. It took me an entire week just to skin the cover. When you see the time and skill it takes to actually make a "perfect" part, you start to understand why these parts are so expensive.

I used a a DIY Starter kit from composite envisions. There are a lot of good tutorials online and multiple methods to do this.
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nicely done
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well done ! impressive
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Looks awesome.
And yes, go for it there can never be to many sources of good carbon parts
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That looks awesome, good job mate!
Now I want one for my glc43..
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Looks great. You have patience talent, well done.

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