DOC787B - The VelociBraptor!
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Straight up blast. The paint won't be the most hard wearing, but should suffice. Just needs the visits touching up every soften as they get 'interacted' with lol
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Re: Dr. FrankenRex's Monster! The VR R3 Grimme ælling
Fair enough. I'll still probably check out the cost of hydro dipping everything. Planning to have the car off the road in winter if I can so dismantling things could be done before it gets too cold.
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Re: Dr. FrankenRex's Monster! The VR R3 Grimme ælling
That's fair dos. Winter project is hopefully to try my hand at carbon skinning.
Hydro dipping just looks meh after you've got your hands of real CF... Lol
Hydro dipping just looks meh after you've got your hands of real CF... Lol
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Re: Dr. FrankenRex's Monster! The VR R3 Grimme ælling
Lol. Fair enough! Someone I know once posted on facebook about the fact people strip out a cars interior to go faster etc and then conviently plaster everything thats left in CF wrap.. Seems pointless in that scenario. Not sure I'd want all my A pillar plastics etc in CF unless I retrimmed absolutely everything to match.
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It really is to each their own. The headliner fabric weighs a bit too ;-) lol
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Re: Dr. FrankenRex's Monster! The VR R3 Grimme ælling
I don't doubt your efforts are going to look awesome. If I had the skill and inclination to sit and retrim everything I would want to match up. I'd most definitely get it done. Also as a side note the car throttle series with your R3 was one of the reasons I ended up liking the 8 even more. So, thanks!
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Haha, yeah, well I've got a kid on the way, so driving time in the 8 will go down for sure. Come the new year I should have a little bit of time to tinker though
And thanks, glad you liked it!
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Ooft congrats! Don't you mean driving the 8 to get them to sleep will increase? ahah. What child doesn't love braps.
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It's more the fumes don't think they'll ever wake up!
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Ah yeah thats a fair point ahah.
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Fabric is ready, parts are painted... Perhaps today I shall fit the Charcoal Grey Alcantara to my headliner...
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One of the guys I worked with had the headliner, dash, console, parcel shelf, etc of his Mk2 rally Escort done in black "flock".
It looked really good and was much more even than I expected from a process that was done in-situ using a process that involved glue and an electrostatic gun loaded with finely chopped fibres.
However, less than a year later the car was off the road to have the entire interior removed as the flocking had started to shed and it was triggering his wife's asthma and even make him itch.
It looked really good and was much more even than I expected from a process that was done in-situ using a process that involved glue and an electrostatic gun loaded with finely chopped fibres.
However, less than a year later the car was off the road to have the entire interior removed as the flocking had started to shed and it was triggering his wife's asthma and even make him itch.
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Good chat. This isn't flock
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Still needs to be fitted to the car, and there's a couple of wrinkles in it, but overall a good job jobbed I reckon!
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Re: Dr. FrankenRex's Monster! The VR R3 Grimme ælling
So what dye did you use.Dr. FrankenRex wrote:Still needs to be fitted to the car, and there's a couple of wrinkles in it, but overall a good job jobbed I reckon!
Looks pretty good
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Re: Dr. FrankenRex's Monster! The VR R3 Grimme ælling
"Flocking hell"warpc0il wrote: ↑Wed Jun 05, 2019 11:41 amOne of the guys I worked with had the headliner, dash, console, parcel shelf, etc of his Mk2 rally Escort done in black "flock".
It looked really good and was much more even than I expected from a process that was done in-situ using a process that involved glue and an electrostatic gun loaded with finely chopped fibres.
However, less than a year later the car was off the road to have the entire interior removed as the flocking had started to shed and it was triggering his wife's asthma and even make him itch.
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Coated it with a sheet of alcantara fabric
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How long did it take you? I'm on a mission to make mine ever more black... and you keep leading the way!
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Including time to remove it it probably took about 3 hours.
This doesn't include the time taken to paint the interior plastics to match, though.
This doesn't include the time taken to paint the interior plastics to match, though.
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Re: Dr. FrankenRex's Monster! The VR R3 Grimme ælling
Good job on the headliner Dan
My car has a dark (Black ) headliner & I like it
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My car has a dark (Black ) headliner & I like it
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Thanks Mark.
As said a few posts ago I converted my old 192 to a black headliner and it just makes the cabin feel a much comfier place to be. Couple it with the LED interior lights and it makes the RX8 interior that little bit more up to date. Shows just how well it has aged if you ask me (even the S1 looks quite modern compared to other JDM machinery of the era).
As said a few posts ago I converted my old 192 to a black headliner and it just makes the cabin feel a much comfier place to be. Couple it with the LED interior lights and it makes the RX8 interior that little bit more up to date. Shows just how well it has aged if you ask me (even the S1 looks quite modern compared to other JDM machinery of the era).
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Have seen 2 VR S1s in Corfu so far this week
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Dr. FrankenRex's Monster! The VR R3 Grimme ælling
LikewiseMARKTHOMASBRAND wrote: ↑Tue Jun 11, 2019 9:02 amMy car has a dark (Black ) headliner & I like it
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Bit of a sneak preview of the zorst plans. Operation FrankenZorst is well under way!
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