looking for a thread about a guy that redid his accent panels with carbon fiber upholstery. if anybody has it linked or can post the link i would appreciated.

 

https://www.rx7club.com/search.php
The search function works for finding lost threads.
It was the thrird one down...
Anyway here is the link you are looking for;
https://www.rx7club.com/showthread.p...ber+upholstery

 

Materials can be picked up from Hoglund's in Everett. It's actually just a vinyl. My buddy has it in his show car. His entire trunk and stereo are wrapped in it and it looks great.

 

3M Di-Noc is the most convincing stuff i'm aware of

 

wasn't there another material that was actually a carbon fiber weave with a vinyl backing? this stuff will work if the other cant be found. thanks for finding this. I've tried the search engine before and never had much luck finding what i was actually looking for...lol

 

I have never seen nor heard of a carbon fiber weave fabric. Only vinyls made to mimic a carbon fiber weave. I do believe they have carbon fiber overlay sticky materials as well, but again it's not true carbon fiber, just an overlay

 

aaaahhhhh ok....... i must have been dreaming again. LOL i also posted in the interior section and one of the guys sent me this link if anybody else is looking for this stuff.

http://www.pyspeed.com/product-p/rd-8001.htm

 

http://www.1addicts.com/forums/showt...12#post7049012

 

http://www.bimmerfest.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=313980

 

thanks for the link... but if i cant buy the material my self and do the project myself then there is now reason for the project.

 

You can buy the vinyl locally at Hoglund's. It's just special order, not something they keep in their regular stock

 

yeah i saw that earlier. i will be in Everett wed so i was thinking of stopping in there and checking out some samples......

i was addressing this link http://www.bimmerfest.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=313980 that was posted. it says in the add that you cant buy the fabric yourself. i just kind of got on my nerves. yeah ive had some work done by others on the car but it was stuff that i could not do myself or did not have the equipment. i mean whats the point in having a project if you dont do some or most of the work yourself ....right?

 

pwnt, lol

Seriously though, that's some cool stuff, I remember seeing that
when the thread first opened. I wouldn't mind refabric(ing) my
WRX in that stuff (the MY09 WRX interior is the cheapest, shittiest,
ugliest plastic to ever be produced by a chinese labor camp)



Backwoods, I can get the fabric for you, how much do you need?
Shoot me a pm and we can figure it out.

 

Move to Moses Lake and work here:

Associated Press Story:
BMW carbon fiber facility will be built in Moses Lake

SEATTLE – Drawn by cheap and sustainable hydropower, a joint venture to manufacture carbon fiber parts for a new BMW electric car will be built in Moses Lake, the heart of central Washington’s potato country.

The long-expected announcement that SGL Automotive Carbon Fibers LLC will build its state-of-the-art plant in the town of about 20,000 people came at a news conference Tuesday. The joint venture is backed by BMW Group and SGL Group, Europe’s only carbon fiber manufacturer.

The joint venture also considered a site in Canada for the fiber plant.

Theodore Breyer, SGL Group’s deputy CEO, said it plans to break ground at a 60-acre site in June and is spending $100 million on the first phase of the factory. It initially will employ 80 workers, nearly all from the region, plus support about 200 construction jobs, he said.

The plant will be operating in time to produce components for BMW’s Megacity vehicle, a high-tech electric urban car to be launched before 2015.

“This will be the leading carbon fiber plant in the world,” Breyer said.

The factory will mean “good jobs – good manufacturing jobs,” as Washington works to pull itself out of the recession, Gov. Chris Gregoire said. In addition, “It means that we are going to continue to lead when it comes to a green economy.”

The plant will import raw materials from Mitsubishi Rayon in Otake, Japan, and spin them into fibers about one-tenth the width of a human hair. Those fibers will be turned into fabric at SGL’s Wackersdorf, Germany, site, then BMW will build the lightweight car components at Landshut, Germany, and send them on to the Megacity assembly plant in Leipzig.

“This enterprise reflects the global complexion of the future,” Breyer said.

Moses Lake, 94 miles west of Spokane, is the largest town in Grant County, which generates electricity from its two dams on the Columbia River. Negotiations with state and local officials for the site began shortly after the joint venture was formed in October.

Agriculture is still the county’s major industry: It’s one of the top potato-producing counties in the nation. But an increasing number of high-tech companies have located there, including a plant to make solar cell materials and several electricity-intensive computer server farms, primarily because of the relatively cheap power.

Mayor John Lane said the city has been working with Big Bend Community College in Moses Lake to develop skilled workers. For a traditional farm town, he said the new companies are “a good opportunity for some of our young people to maybe stay home and work at other industries.”

Dr. Friedrich Eichiner, BMW AG’s board member for finance, said the renewable and low-cost hydropower was the major draw as BMW increasingly positions itself as a “sustainable” car company. Also attractive was a skilled work force and the state and local governments’ willingness to quickly grant permits.

“The city of Moses Lake will become a focal point for technological innovation,” Eichiner said, adding that the venture has taken an option on another 60 acres and plans to expand and create more jobs.

 

^^ LOL^^ yeah i wish...not really but would be cool. i want to build cars when i retire. when i retire ill be going to renton tech to learn the basic's then hope to work in a shop to learn the rest. i can weld already and am starting to work on my own panel's. from what Ive seen there are a lot of bolt on's so that's not to hard to figure out but i want to learn the engine's and the tuning side. im just looking at test pieces right now.

 

this is what i was looking for. there was a diy post on this a while ago. check it out.
http://neffywrap.com/index.php?main_...&products_id=1

 

for right now all i would need would be a 2" X 2" square for a test sample. im still in the planing and desighn stage right now.

 

Hold on, wait. We grow potato's in Washington?
WTF?! I've been there so many times, I've never
seen potato farms. ******* reporters are confusing
us with Idaho again....

(True fact: Idaho doesn't grow very many potatoes either)
(Also a true fact: The number of cows in Idaho is is almost 3:1 to the people ratio)
(Fact: Don't go to Idaho)

Dude..... Really?

 

like i said for now im kust looking at test pieces. i will be putting them together and see which is the best combination that i like for the inside...... so yeah really .....sorry did not mean to get your hopes up. it is just for right now. so i can get a idea of what it will really look like on the inside and then i can start with the design phase.