Carbon wrap

minnesota · September 2017

I wrapped the gauge panel and wheel with glossy carbon wrap to get rid of the ugly yellow burl wood.

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davidbrooks · September 2017

Nice!

LaRea · September 2017

How hard was it to apply?

rasbury · September 2017

Nice...mine is rather out dated looking as well...

skennelly · September 2017

same here..was going to look at my options in the off season.

Michael T · September 2017

.....@minnesota - brilliant Idea! Barrie, Ontario - beautiful!

Liberty44140 · September 2017

Can you explain how you did this? Did you remove the panels from the dash? I assume yes. Did you remove the tach and switches from the panel or leave them in place? I have been thinking about doing this and I think it would be possible with leaving all wires and items in place just need to unscrew the panels and pull them out a bit. Thanks! Looks great!

skennelly · September 2017

Okay nevermind...comments say not the way to do it..LOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBzAiP6amJE

reneechris14 · September 2017

Thought of doing this too. Just scared of how much I break in the process. Yours come out great 10 years newer for sure.

kordo · September 2017

Can I ask where you bought the carbon wrap and how much? Very nice.

tk1973 · September 2017

looks clean.

rasbury · September 2017

I wonder how it would look even just painted? I guess if you have it all apart, that would be the way to go...with a covering and not a paint...

davidbrooks · September 2017

When i wrapped my dash panel i took it to a buddy that does this for a living to show me how. He did the hard piece with lots of curves and corners. I did the others. So first buy good stuff like a 3M product. It is more elastic. Second. Get the chemical sprays to clean and float the wrap over what you are doing. Best is to remove the piece you are wrapping and have it on a table in front of you. Take out all the switches and components so it is just plastic. Then you just sit there with a heat gun and heat and stretch. Heat and stretch. Start at one point and work your way around. Cut out inside holes and heat and stretch the wrap into the openings and tuck them under if possible. Have a padded scraper that you can use to push air and water bubbles out to the edges. Now here is the interesting one. You really may have to experiment to ensure that the wrap will breathe. Otherwise when the sun hits it you will see it start to bubble. This shouldn't happen with good stuff. I got lucky. Mine wasn't the good stuff but i wanted to match the wood grain i had. Love the carbon fiber look though.

minnesota · September 2017

Thanks, davidbrooks saves me all the typing. Basically that's it, Get 3M carbon wrap from Amazon. I bough a 1' X 5' piece, it's big enough. I didn't take the switches out of the switch bank but left enough wrap material around the switches to carefully slip the wrap under the switches. To r & r all 13 switches would be a nightmare plus guaranteeing breaking a couple of tabs for sure them being 9 years old Leave them be. The wrap is very forgiving being able to take a lot of heat from a hair dryer. I found the hair dryer provides plenty of heat to stretch, soften, help sticking,help conforming to curves and dips. There are wraps that breathes that will flatten trapped boubles. Make sure you buy the good Glossy version. took me 5 hours for all pieces.