Maximizd..Have a question about carbon-fiber
#1
I have an idea about the carbon fiber. Maybe someone could help.
How hard would it be to have someone make carbon fiber appliques (sp?) for the taillamps? Maybe to make them look like SE taillamps.....covering up all that red-useless stuff on the GXE! Although this may not be possible because the taillamps are not perfectly flat and they wrap around to the side of the car.
But if this were possible...it would probably have to be in more than one piece for each lamp...a smaller piece would probably be needed to go around the "profile view" or wrap-around part of the taillamps.
Also I was wondering if anyone could let me know if there are different colors of carbon fiber...such as white or something.
Just wondering about this. I just can't warm up to the look of the taillamps on my car....I just think it needs something. And since my Maxima is Icelandic Pearl I do not feel that tinted SE taillamps would look right. If there is such a thing as a white carbon fiber...I might give that a go!
How hard would it be to have someone make carbon fiber appliques (sp?) for the taillamps? Maybe to make them look like SE taillamps.....covering up all that red-useless stuff on the GXE! Although this may not be possible because the taillamps are not perfectly flat and they wrap around to the side of the car.
But if this were possible...it would probably have to be in more than one piece for each lamp...a smaller piece would probably be needed to go around the "profile view" or wrap-around part of the taillamps.
Also I was wondering if anyone could let me know if there are different colors of carbon fiber...such as white or something.
Just wondering about this. I just can't warm up to the look of the taillamps on my car....I just think it needs something. And since my Maxima is Icelandic Pearl I do not feel that tinted SE taillamps would look right. If there is such a thing as a white carbon fiber...I might give that a go!
#2
Carbon, nice
Carbon Fiber is like fiberglass, except it's not glass fibers, it's carbon fibers...
It shouldn't be harder than molding something from fiberglass. (woven sheets with epoxy) The questions is, who will or can do it. Carbon fiber is also more expensive. It's natural color is black. But I think the colored ones are either colored fibers of other materials like kevlar weaved into the fibers or mixed in with it.
I don't know any suppliers of raw materials (carbon fiber sheets) or how to really go about doing it. All I know is it'll take time and money to build a mold for the lights and then actually forming the shell to cover the red part of the rear lights.
good luck on finding someone that can do it.
It shouldn't be harder than molding something from fiberglass. (woven sheets with epoxy) The questions is, who will or can do it. Carbon fiber is also more expensive. It's natural color is black. But I think the colored ones are either colored fibers of other materials like kevlar weaved into the fibers or mixed in with it.
I don't know any suppliers of raw materials (carbon fiber sheets) or how to really go about doing it. All I know is it'll take time and money to build a mold for the lights and then actually forming the shell to cover the red part of the rear lights.
good luck on finding someone that can do it.
#3
Originally posted by warrlocked
I have an idea about the carbon fiber. Maybe someone could help.
How hard would it be to have someone make carbon fiber appliques (sp?) for the taillamps? Maybe to make them look like SE taillamps.....covering up all that red-useless stuff on the GXE! Although this may not be possible because the taillamps are not perfectly flat and they wrap around to the side of the car.
But if this were possible...it would probably have to be in more than one piece for each lamp...a smaller piece would probably be needed to go around the "profile view" or wrap-around part of the taillamps.
Also I was wondering if anyone could let me know if there are different colors of carbon fiber...such as white or something.
Just wondering about this. I just can't warm up to the look of the taillamps on my car....I just think it needs something. And since my Maxima is Icelandic Pearl I do not feel that tinted SE taillamps would look right. If there is such a thing as a white carbon fiber...I might give that a go!
I have an idea about the carbon fiber. Maybe someone could help.
How hard would it be to have someone make carbon fiber appliques (sp?) for the taillamps? Maybe to make them look like SE taillamps.....covering up all that red-useless stuff on the GXE! Although this may not be possible because the taillamps are not perfectly flat and they wrap around to the side of the car.
But if this were possible...it would probably have to be in more than one piece for each lamp...a smaller piece would probably be needed to go around the "profile view" or wrap-around part of the taillamps.
Also I was wondering if anyone could let me know if there are different colors of carbon fiber...such as white or something.
Just wondering about this. I just can't warm up to the look of the taillamps on my car....I just think it needs something. And since my Maxima is Icelandic Pearl I do not feel that tinted SE taillamps would look right. If there is such a thing as a white carbon fiber...I might give that a go!
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