restoring CF

[MaybeGuy]

is there any way of doing this?

my yoshimura can faded on the GSXR when i had and looked ''dry'' if you like.

for future reference, how can you make it look ok again? i've got 3 other CF exhausts for the R6 and wouldnt mind knowing how to do it if it happens to them.
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Kickstart wrote: Hi I tend to agree with Matt. All the best Keith

[chris-red]

If it has a shiney coating lacquer/resin I would try polish it, start with bodywork polish or maybe Autosol if the bodywork stuff is too weak.
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[Kickstart]

Hi

Standard trick to get CF to look shiny when new is to lacquer it. Just find one that will take the heat.

All the best

Keith
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[robocog]

I have a seven type kit car and its body is fiberglass, it lives outside whatever the weather and was fine for first 3 or 4 years then it took on a "dry and slightly chalky" appearance after last winter which just got worse and worse till it looked powdery on all the top surfaces (put it down to UV and standing water damage)

A wax session would make it look good for a few days, but then it came back worse than before and I was just waxing before taking it anywhere I was actually bothered what it looked like

Asked a few 'fiberglass experts' as I got pretty worried that I was going to have to shell out shed loads to replace the fiberglass or get it resprayed as it looked like it had caught some fiberglass disease

On their advice I used some stuff made by Farecla called G3 which is a rubbing compound sold in some chandlers supplies and possibly in bodywork paint places...it is chuffin pricey, but seems to work pretty good

I was told to keep the polishing mop wet and moving at all times otherwise it WILL burn the gel/resin and balls up the job

Its a bit like T cut used to be before they got worried about people rubbing through bodywork and watered it down or whatever they have done to make it useless

I also got told off for using a silicate (or is it silicone?) based wax as it apparently is not good for the resin...oops, that will be 4 years of abuse I have been throwing at it thinking I was "protecting it" then

I have changed my ways and only use a carnauba wax now (some stuff called 'Blitz' sold by Frosts again as recommended by someone in the know)...which seems to be working so far. A couple of weeks in and the dull white chalky stuff has stayed away and water has started to bead like it used to rather than "cling"

Assuming they use the same resin on CF as they do fiberglass/gelcoat and the finish was shiney and smooth I cannot see why a cut and carnauba wax wouldn't make it same as the day you got it as it has with my toy car

If its a slightly textured finish to the CF I'm not sure the above would work

Hope its of some use

Regards
Rob

[Noxious89123]

https://motorbikepaint.co.uk/products.html

RS Paint sell Farecla G4. I have some in a box somewhere. Works very well for removing blemishes from paint.
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