There was an article in one of my past McLaren racing mag's about how they paint the parts for all the F1 cars. Carbon of any kind can be painted and will hold the paint no problem. but you must use a special chemical which was very expensive and hard to come by for it to hold with no problem's. i will try to find that mag and see if i can get the name....

 

you are incorrect sir.... the car was originally NFR, but all the carbon is covered with vinyl... the entire car was wrapped with the same scheme they wrap every other one of their track cars with. Alot of dry carbon cars are Wrapped with vinyl rather than painted... you just don't know... I've seen several photos of the cars being wrapped... I feel sorry for the guy who did it, it took them forever and it seemed so painstaking...

 

also, adhesion depends entirely on the surface and ability to prime... regarding the flex in the Cwest fender, they are more than stock, and more than urethane... painting urethane is easier because it is more easily primed, and it's generally thicker/stronger in regards to the amount of flex it allows...

 

I knew this from the start when the RS-R car was barely drifting. I actually went to the rs-r facility to view the car myself. The reason why I said nothing is just simply because I didn't want to ruin anyones parade.

 

Thanks Tommy, make me do it... I guess I'm a parade ruiner now...

 

That sounds right I'd think. I think anything can be painted when you throw enough money at it.

 

true, but you'd have to want to paint it enough to throw that money at it in the first place... anything that costs as much to paint as it is to buy as far as dry carbon is concerned is just ludacris to me... I'd leave it so I might have a chance to sell it at some point, and use the money I saved on paint for something else...

 

No problem James....it's James right? Oh wells...

 

 

yeah, it's James...

and why does everyone feel the need to poke me with that damn stick?!!!