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Old 03-11-2009, 10:11 AM
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Carbon Fiber brake fluid/battery compartment covers
Has anyone else seen these? What do you think of the design that has the opening for the lettering on top? Anyone have them yet? The price of $88 shipped has me very intrigued...











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Old 03-11-2009, 10:19 AM
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hm..might be pretty neat if you painted the lettering to match the theme of your car/engine bay.
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Old 03-11-2009, 10:20 AM
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looks pretty interesting.
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Old 03-11-2009, 10:25 AM
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Originally Posted by w0ady
hm..might be pretty neat if you painted the lettering to match the theme of your car/engine bay.
I hadn't thought of that woady, but that's a pretty good idea. Mine is black of course, so no extra work would be necessary, but for color scheme people that might really stand out.
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make it glossy and would look nice.
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Originally Posted by solopresident
make it glossy and would look nice.
The lettering or the covers themselves? The covers already look glossy to me...
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Old 03-11-2009, 10:58 AM
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I installed them all last night and the radiator cover is money. Looks great, fit perfect, no issues what so ever.



Now the battery/brake fluid covers is another story. I could not get them to sit totally flush. The first one I did not line up the front edge pefectly with the cover so it hung over a couple mm and would not lie in there so I had to take the blow dryer to it to remove it and redo that one, I thought that would take care of it but it did not. Then I did the second one and was very careful to line it up right and still wont sit flush when I snap the covers down.



I am considering taking my Dremmel to it to shave the edges down thinking that may help but I dont know if that will mess them up.

https://www.myg37.com/forums/picture...n-fiber-2.html
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I've seen those. This is a completely different product. $196 different. Different design as well.
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Old 03-11-2009, 12:09 PM
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My bad... I do like the idea of painting the raised letters inside the cutout part. I was going to paint the raised letters on Her car but she hasn't picked a color yet.
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Not bad IMO.
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it's an overlay... i rather get full carbon fiber.
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Originally Posted by NIGHTLFEphantom
it's an overlay... i rather get full carbon fiber.
Not available as yet.
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Not available as yet.
Yes, I believe they are.. https://www.myg37.com/forums/support...otorsport.html
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Originally Posted by NIGHTLFEphantom
Those are overlays too my man. Check out post 25 where Kidcane is installing them.
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They both look like they're dry carbon overlays, which is made of real CF, just at thin piece overlayed on top of the cover as opposed to fabricating a mold to create the entire piece out of CF.

I'd say do it!
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