add heywood Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 So my bonnet on the rex was looking a bit worse for wear... Its a very rare Full carbon DWR bonnet (as far as I know the only one in the UK). The lacquer had gone cloudy in places and the actual resin had discoloured a yellow ish colour. I was thinking of just swapping it for a new carbon bonnet but liked the fact mine was rare. I'd already had the lacquer re done last year but they did a pretty bad job, so did a bit of searching and found a company called Sycross near York (about an hour and a half from me in Manchester). Took my bonnet up to Adam there last week and just picked it up yesterday. Went for a full re skin in carbon. Bonnet now looks brand new, they did an awesome job... This is what it looked like with the damage to the lacquer etc... And this is how it turned out... Also got my carbon headlight covers refurbed at the same time. And all this cost me less than half it would have to buy a new bonnet... Well happy roll on dragonball now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShawnPreece Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 Looks a great job mate nice one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glanza_Mike Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 Wow, they did a fantastic job mate, looks great Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luxluc Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 Wow. Great job Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supra_ufo Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 Is that adams work? looks great Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
add heywood Posted April 28, 2015 Author Share Posted April 28, 2015 Is that adams work? looks great Yes mate, he is fantastic at what he does... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phlukey Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 That looks great! Good to know that refurb work like this is possible with carbon fibre. Do you know exactly what the refurb process involves to restore the carbon to this level of finish? Surely a new 'skin' of carbon would increase the original thickness of the bonnet? I'm intrigued. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
add heywood Posted April 28, 2015 Author Share Posted April 28, 2015 That looks great! Good to know that refurb work like this is possible with carbon fibre. Do you know exactly what the refurb process involves to restore the carbon to this level of finish? Surely a new 'skin' of carbon would increase the original thickness of the bonnet? I'm intrigued. We will see when I fit it tomorrow, but I'm pretty sure he sands down through to the bare carbon, then lays a skin on top, then re lacquers... He gave me two options, the first was just sanding and re lacquering but he said the yellow look on the bonnet would still be visible as it was the actual resin that had the uv damage, or he could skin the bonnet. Obviously went for the second... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MATT RR Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 looks fantastic:)! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phlukey Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 Cool, interested to see how the fit is with a re-skin. I'm still trying to find someone who is able to carbon skin the lower lip of my TRD front bumper (rather than just having it carbon wrapped as it is now) if anyone knows of anybody? I want something similar to the carbon lower lip cover you can get for the OEM 350Z front bumper made up..... http://www.350z-uk.com/topic/70300-carbon-lip-cover/ I think this would be quite popular with all those sporting a TRD front bumper with the center 'tooth' removed if I could get a few made up by someone. Al Massey was looking into it with a carbon specialist guy he knew, but I don't think it's gone anywhere. Any help or advice anyone could give with this would be much appreciated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sukhy Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 Looks a great job. Good to know that it can be done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
add heywood Posted April 28, 2015 Author Share Posted April 28, 2015 His name is a Adam Majer from Sycross Carbon Ltd... I don't have contact details as such as I was in contact with him through Facebook but his website is http://sycross.co.uk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sukhy Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 Yes found it mate, thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phlukey Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 His name is a Adam Majer from Sycross Carbon Ltd... I don't have contact details as such as I was in contact with him through Facebook but his website is http://sycross.co.uk Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
add heywood Posted April 29, 2015 Author Share Posted April 29, 2015 Cool, interested to see how the fit is with a re-skin. I'm still trying to find someone who is able to carbon skin the lower lip of my TRD front bumper (rather than just having it carbon wrapped as it is now) if anyone knows of anybody? I want something similar to the carbon lower lip cover you can get for the OEM 350Z front bumper made up..... http://www.350z-uk.com/topic/70300-carbon-lip-cover/ I think this would be quite popular with all those sporting a TRD front bumper with the center 'tooth' removed if I could get a few made up by someone. Al Massey was looking into it with a carbon specialist guy he knew, but I don't think it's gone anywhere. Any help or advice anyone could give with this would be much appreciated So managed to fit last night. The bonnet is maybe 1.5mm thicker on top (as I'm going to have to adjust my bonnet pins very slightly). On the edges maybe 1mm wider but as its uniform you honestly can't tell at all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phlukey Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 That's good news, thanks for the feedback Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham1984 Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 Not too shabby Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abz Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 Looks like fantastic workmanship! Looking forward to seeing this beast Adds! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purplewitch Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 Glad Sycross turned that around so quickly for you, he's had my friends APR wing five months and won't return messages despite saying ages and ages ago it was coming back by the weekend Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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