Carbon Fiber License plates

[96cobrakid]

So since Ive sold the Cobra I had also recently sold the vette and moved into a house. I also took a new job working out of town for 3 weeks out of the month.


But anyway, my buddy who lives with me and I are going to start doing Carbon Fiber. I havn't forgot my SN95 guys and their lack of love from the aftermarket. I would love to get into all sorts of interior pieces and even fenders ect. I have been doing weeks of research and feel very confidently about this.

But we are underway on our first project and are going to make a license plate for his 1972 Plymouth Scamp project. He has vintage plates we are going to reproduce. We are going to repaint the letters as well.

DISCLAIMER: These are going to be for shows and not intended to be registered or anything of that nature. I'll have pics up of them hopefully tomorrow. Does that sound like anything you guys would be interested in?

Sanding and polishing out the old plate to make the Mold.

Before Wax

Front and Back

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[Cookieman00x]

Isnt it illegal to reproduce licence plates?

For the parts, are you doing solid carbon fiber, an overlay sticker type or a carbon covered part?

 

[96cobrakid]

Isnt it illegal to reproduce licence plates?

For the parts, are you doing solid carbon fiber, an overlay sticker type or a carbon covered part?

Im sure it might be, but for the novelty, I think it would be alright. Plus it is a good project to start on. Im sure Ford has a patent on a Fender, but people reproduce those :shrug: And it is gonna be a new piece of CF, not an overlay. The old plate will be just as it always has been.

 

[70' Mach I]

i would love to get interior carbon fiber! maybe even a carbon fiber door panel

 

[96cobrakid]

i would love to get interior carbon fiber! maybe even a carbon fiber door panel

I defiantly want to do the interior pieces. I always wanted them when I had my 95 Cobra. What other pieces would you guys like? Here is the picture of the plate and the valve cover with PVA drying. Kinda boring...

 

[94venomV8]

Am I missing something I dont see any carbon fiber?

 

[96cobrakid]

I was posting the pics as we were working on it, we will see how it turns out tomorrow. We've made a mold for a 318 Valve Cover and put the Carbon on the plate.

 

[LDC2335]

cool idea's,

ill take a some full cf door cup replacements, and a full radio bezel...lol

 

[70' Mach I]

I defiantly want to do the interior pieces. I always wanted them when I had my 95 Cobra. What other pieces would you guys like? Here is the picture of the plate and the valve cover with PVA drying. Kinda boring...

and not even a replica of the door panel, do like a more simplified panel, like a race car would have

 

[95gtpa]

how much was that roll of cf????

 

[96cobrakid]

Well unfortunatly I had to head out for work for 2 weeks today, but I got some pics of the mold from my buddy at home. The mold for the valve cover turned out perfect. Couldnt be happier. The plate looks great, you can read all the letters perfectly BUT I didnt vacuum bag it like I knew I should and I got some air bubbles on it. It was a good learning experiance and the learning curve with this stuff is rediculous! lol Ill keep everyone updated when I get into more projects. It was definatly very cool to mess with.



And the Carbon comes in yards. It was about 42 bucks a yard. there were about 200.00 worth of materials

 

[99COBRA2881]

Very nice. Subbing to follow along on the learning curve.

 

[TexasSnake]

+1

 

[96cobrakid]

The learning curve can only be understood hands on lol. I have done weeks of research and felt confident while we were making the parts we did. I felt like I knew every step, but we just didnt know how the materials would be until we had them, Vacuum bagging stuff will be purchased before I get home and hopefully in two weeks will be back at another new project :rockon:

 

[RedTwilight]

How about 4-valve cam covers! Both '96-'98 and '99-'04 versions

 

[96cobrakid]

How about 4-valve cam covers! Both '96-'98 and '99-'04 versions

Already on the list of things I want to do. I was thinking 96-98 ones for sure.