So I've decided to make my first project with carbon fiber a difficult one(not smart?). Ill post pictures as I progress and advice as to what I'm doing would be appreciated.

The idea is to make a mould that wraps around the edges as they can be seen while on the car.

The clay in the front of the light is to fill in the cosmetic groves that the carbon probably wont lay into, should I just fill them in with Gel-coat and sand them off the mould, or try to fill them in like I have now? The clay is hard to smooth out nice and ill probably have to sand anyway.

I would like to make this a repeatable process because I'm practicing on a used pair of lights first and if it comes out good Id like to do mine.

prep for mould making so far

Some are just the mesh but the 2 at the ends are carbon. Very frustrating at this point. I think I need a whole new mold with HUGE flat flanges all around so I can lay flat square pieces of carbon and use the stretch bagging to help with the contours. I'm tapped out with funds and ideas at this point. I don't even have enough gel coat or putty to make another mold!! This is exhausting!

my resin just got here and is too cold to use tonight but ill try tomorrow. I have to re-bag anyways because I poked a hole in it with the bottom of the mold(cardboard broke under vacuum)