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Old 07-18-2008, 05:03 AM   #1
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it's sharp.. but I am sorry I don't like it.. if you go carbon for that cover, you should have carbon all over the trunk!.. :P
one small part don't match with nothing.. :P
but it's still kewl :P
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Old 07-18-2008, 07:52 AM   #2
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That does seem really useless. How often do you use the front trunk, and how often do people look there? Plus, your adding the weight of the CF to the car.
But it does look cool!
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Old 07-18-2008, 05:07 PM   #3
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Looks cool, but do all 3 pieces and I bet it would look amazing.
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Old 07-18-2008, 09:46 PM   #4
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Sorry, but to me the 'CF' look is all about posing !!

I was working with CF before many of you were born and it's intent is as a structural, rather than an aesthetic, material. It looks the way it does because of it's composition.

Most manufacturers using CF use it for structural reasons and almost always paint it such as Ferrari, Saleen, Spyker, Pagani, and Koenigsegg. They're about using the material for it's structural, rather than any aesthetic, qualities.

You may save a few ounces substituting CF components for OEM ones, but in the end, it means NOTHING in terms of enhanced performance.

Personally, I find it a bit intrusive, that is, more often than not it interupts an aesthetic rather than enhancing it, but of course all this is VERY subjective. I think a quality color base paint job is much more attractive than the raw, burnt, polyesther (which is where the carbon cloth comes from) look of CF.

But, if YOU like it... more power to you... !!!
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Old 07-18-2008, 09:55 PM   #5
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I agree with most of what you said lil.

I agree with you about most of the time its an look not a performance enhancement.

Saying that I love the LOOK of my CF Center Console
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Old 07-19-2008, 07:00 PM   #6
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Agreed 100%. An overlay is definitely NOT the way to use CF for any structural purposes.

This is just a hobby as I do love the look of CF. I do know a bit about CF's properties from the few books I read, but probably not enough to design something at Ferrari's level with CF crumple zones and such. Even then, its not going to be at the level of Ferrari simply because I m not going to be using prepreg, freezers and autoclaves.

Eventually, hopefully I'll be able to build a hood that uses CF's structural properties to save some weight. I think the most advance stuff I'll be doing when it gets to the hood is probably infusion. However, for now, its purely cosmetic and would add the weight of CF and resin to the stock part's weight.

Like I said, most useless mod. LOLs.
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Old 07-19-2008, 09:41 PM   #7
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Personally I like it... I don't think it really matters whether you're showing off the front trunk or not. It's kinda like lingerie. It's fun just knowing there's something sexy underneath that you catch a glimpse of once in a while.

On my car I'm kinda going for a silver, black, chrome, and carbon fiber theme throughout. In the front trunk I've installed chrome washer and brake fluid caps, chrome caps over most fasteners and lots of little things. Like I wrapped the wiring in nice, black wire loom under the covers. I painted the clamp for the battery silver. I took out the wiper motor assembly and painted the arms and base silver and replaced the yellow zinc plated bolts with clear zinc plated bolts. I painted the horn silver. I polished the AC tubing. etc, etc... Personally I think it looks neat and clean and cost me pretty much nothing but time.

Today my 16 yr old son and I took on another project that was inspired by this thread. My son did most of the work:





Here you can see that I also cleaned up the spare tire and painted the bracket for it silver.



Again, sure stuff like this is obsessive and maybe no one else will see it, but I'm not doing it for anyone else. I'm doing it for my own satisfaction and my son and I had a good time working together on it today - which is priceless.
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looks good, if i had the money to waste id take 1..

- but i still think the Trunk Monkey takes the cake for "Must Useless Mod"
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