Until you can paint your windshield (& your face) with it, it's not going to matter a hell of a lot.

If you can see an object, it's reflective enough for lidar to work. You might cut their range back a bit, but nothing we can effectively paint is 'black' or 'flat' enough to prevent a usable infrared bounce at the distance cops ticket at.

 

Grabbed my new rims today.

Commence Operation Restoration!
Already pulling the bolts off to get thrown into my tumbler for a couple days then I'm soaking them in a metal blackener solution.
Rims will be soda blasted then powder coated in golden rod.
Lips will fixed and then polished to a mirror shine.

 

Nice.

 

True..... but color and texture do make a difference. Darker colors result in much shorter range. The flip up headlights help alot as they serve as excellent reflectors ...when they are up that is. Alert drivers in dark cars can often figure out they are a target prior to the time a reading is obtained.

 

Or just drive REAL fast and hope they don't chase. And if they do hope they wanted to drive fast too. :P

 

Well, I started to paint my engine today that's out of the SE. Still have to detail the dizzy and paint the "Mazda 13B" part. But its a start for the "killer b".

 

In theory, if you drove toward the cop fast enough, you'd doppler-shift the infrared bounce up into visible light, which the lidar would not be able to receive.

 

I got in and drove it the fark to Tulsa. 16 hours in the bridge ported beast, something like 13.5 hours of actual driving time.

About 24mpg too.

 

Does buying my second one count?

 

She got quite complimentary mention in Japanese Nostalgic Car's SevenStock coverage.

I have to print it out and hang it in the garage so she can see herself!

 

LOL. Ok it all about principles of emissivity when choosing paint and texture of the paint. Flat Black makes your car "absorb" more of the light or deflect some of it slightly away from the expected angle. It will not make your car invisible to lasers, detection will occur at a shorter distance than white with clear coats on the same car. This is why cops are instructed to aim at crome, head lamps, and reflective licence plates. In my state, it is illegal to put any cover of any kind over the front licence plate (guess what they aim at).

Note: we have low profile cars with pop-up head lamps, coupled with dark & flat paints, we have a shorter distance to detection. But, in the end, a smart cop will not set up in an area that will give you plenty of time.

However, radar is a different story. Now you need to redesign the front end including the window and mirrors, and get some of those "lockheed" materials.

 

why?

 

I saw that, lookin' good!

 

Today I drove the car around a bit with open headers. Then I welded up the merge pipe from 2.5" to 3" so it should make decent power still. I can't wait till tomorrow when I will finish the exhaust and get her in a quiet ride lol

 

Your car is sooo nice!

 

Gassed and polished it for cars & coffee then off to rice killers

 

Progress on this project:

I got the first pair of samples back today. These were done using the "Vacuum Aluminum Metallization" process. They are also darned hard to take good shots of once they get shiny!








These pix are enlarged quite a bit (about 12x), but as you can see, they came out quite shiny but not morror-smooth, even though the underlying plastic was hand-smoothed with 2000-grit sandpaper.

Viewed fullsize they look pretty decent at arm's-length, but up close they actually look rather old or antique. They also cost me $24 each to have plated.

I'd give them a b-minus; I'd use them on my car if I didn't already have (or couldn't find) better.

What do you all think?

Sometime next week, or possibly the following week, I should have the Spectra-chrome treated parts back. I'm still looking for a place that can do actual chrome, too.

 

I still don't know what those are.. something with the door or something? I must not have it on my '79

 

I continued my shopping for new suspension bits, that I determined I need after the last autox event....with money I dont have... while contriving new ways of making super easy money


key words "scrap metal recycling" (while working in an auto shop)

 

I'm in the same boat... But for something I have no idea what it is or what it does I've never wanted it MORE!

 

Same here^^ I dont know what for, but i just wanna stick my **** in them.

 

Put me down for a pair of those Glen, mine are destroyed and it kinda lets my interior down (besides the destroyed driver's seat and split dash)

 

they look good in the pics.

 

I got the brown one's exhaust done. Gonna listen to it today. The blue one got a parts swap including carb and manifold, spark plugs and wires, and will receive an o2 bung today.

 

They go here; only used on 80's in the US, unsure of applications in other regions.




Since you're like 12,000 miles away from me, dude, I'll take that as a compliment.

OK; I'll let you know when I'm ready to part with some. Keep in mnd that my straight cost on this pair was close on to $50 just for plating.


Thanks; they don't look all that bad in person, they're just not as smooth as the originals. I'm hoping to see a better finish out of the other processes.