BC

Anybody know of who could make a few or has one ready to go?

Or websites where I can get the stuff to try my hand at it?

Mrmerlin

why do you want this type of dash? if its shiny it will reflect light into your eyes from the inside of the windscreen. My white dash is probably the worst color choice for a dash as it reflects all the light into the inside of the windshield and then into the drivers eyes, i had a special cover made for the pod in black leather to reduce the reflectivity, If you get CF and wet sand the gelcoat off of it then it will have a dull appearance and thus reduce the reflectivity, i had to sand my motorcycle fender as after a few years the gel coat was starting to crack and make very small lines in the surface after wetsanding it has a nice dull uniform color and the CF strands can be easily seen, but it is still smooth, One word of cautuion use rubber gloves when sanding wet or dry any CF parts

Jim bailey - 928 International

He has spent too much time in the Honda....

svp928

LOL! Jim, that was MEAN!

Brendan, there are a few composite shops down there in the southland, a search for fiberglass/composites may turn up something. Going to be serious money, though...

Bill51sdr

More likely the Honduh forums

kaptnknemo

How about black dyed fiberglass with a carbon fiber type weave. You control the glossiness of the surface by a "peel ply".
Try searches for "West System" (guegon(sp) brothers)
OR get trained www.abaris.com. I have taken two classes from them and enjoyed every second.

BC

All interesting comments, thanks. The honda has no CF in it at all, and it is being sold, so...

The Car will be a Race car, but some daily driving for the short term, so I was hoping to get some form of compromize on the very heavy OEM dash.

I guess I could attempt to gut the underside of the dash as much as possible.

Bus

On my motorcycles, I normally use an aftermarket seat made by a company in FL called Corbin Saddles. The last couple I've bought have had thier "Carbon Fiber Leather" covers. It's leather with a skin on the face of it that looks like CF...
http://www.corbin.com/materials/

It's really very good looking material, and extremely durable... but, there's no reduction in weight like a replacement CF part would be. Would be fairly simple to get the material to "The dash guy" to sew up, then just install a new cover on your existing dash.

90 S-4

Brendan
I work in CF shop and can tell you that a good portion of the costs are to come up with the
lay-up mold/tool . Usually a customer wants a part but doesn't have the mold, so the shop
charges him to make the mold then the parts are priced accordingly afterward. The reason
I bring this up is (I'm not volunteering now-maybe later) if you were willing to do all the grunt
work -- build a mold, do the trimming & sanding & coating -- ******** back and forth then I
could just do the CF layup portion and hand you back the part. Beware ! a part just pulled out
of the mold is not ready to be installed. Thats when the work starts all over again, trimming,sanding
fitting ect, ect, but when it's done it's worth it . Let me know...

BC

How do I make a mold?

ACG

There is a guy in the Pelican forum by the name of MixMasterK who does quite good work on CF:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/showt...0&pagenumber=1

90 S-4

Do you have 6 months ? You first make a female splash of an existing, then make a male off that.
Then body work the hell out of it & use it for the mold. OR make a new different shape out of wood,
something like a high density particle type (Home Depot) you can shape that stuff very nicely. Cabinet
makers use it because it is so shapeable (router friendly) too. Basically you'd be building a dash/consol unit out of wood (in your garage) test fitting as you go to ensure a go fit for later.
Once the shape is established you then scribe trim lines into it so when you remove the new part
off the mold and look inside you'll see a groove/line that was copied by having the resin coat and
fill over it . That line is where you cut to.

Hilton

There was a brief discussion about CF on the aussie landshark list earlier this week.

These links to a CF-fabrication video series on you-tube were posted by one of the members who also posts here too

Shark Attack

when i grow up I wanna be a golf club

V2Rocket

Find an extra dash and plaster it..lol. Once it dries take off the dash and use the dried plaster as a negative.