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Hi guys, I've been on here for a while, I originally looked into making a direct replacement dash centre console, but quickly came to realise the only option was to skin it. Any way, in the end, I got a company to do the centres for 3 cars for me so I could get pictures, get them up on my website and offer them for sale, these would have been done to order and I was promised they would take a week. So, with a week in mind, a customer let us borrow his dash to be sent off in the return that they get it for cost price. 2 months on, we are now only just looking at possibly getting the parts back, obviously this isn't a model I can run with for my business. They were going to have my entire car to do doors, roof, boot, etc etc, but on the current time scales, it'd prob take me a year to get it back. So, I am back at looking to do carbon myself. Anyway, on to my main point........ I am looking to clear the double garage out and skin my entire car, in fact, we are actually looking at doing 3 cars all in, which will all be demo cars for my tuning company. I would like to, once I have the hang of using carbon more, make the panels such as the roof, doors, boot, wings, bonnet, spoiler, mirrors etc completely from carbon in an OE style. Is the door, boot and bonnet possible to do matching OE style and use original locks, latches, door cards, windows etc? But, to start, I shall remove the windows from the car and skin it. I have worked out that I have approx 25sqm to cover on the car, so im looking at 25m2 of 200g 2x2 plus some mistakes and a couple of small practice pieces. How much resin would I need? I'm looking to do it by the 1st black layer of resin, lay carbon, coat of epoxy, 3x coats of epoxy (I am considering spraying this in my spray booth, would this work?), final coat of epoxy (again, looking to possibly spray), sand it all down, leave for a week, 3 coats of laquer, wet flat and another 3 coats of lacquer, wet flat 800, leave for 2-4 weeks, wet flat 1200, 2000, 2500 polish. Is there any advice, hint, tips etc etc that anyone can offer?
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