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Picture of Your Car (2009)
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Yea the unpainted carbon fiber roof on the M3 is total rice.
I love the aesthetics of carbon fiber. Here's some ricey unpainted CF on my car.
And what about the huge panel of unpainted carbon fiber on the Audi R8?
Yea the unpainted carbon fiber roof on the M3 is total rice.
I love the aesthetics of carbon fiber. Here's some ricey unpainted CF on my car.
And what about the huge panel of unpainted carbon fiber on the Audi R8?
Well, we were referencing ricers rolling around in dumped integras with fartcans and altezzas with otherwise stock components performance-wise, with tacky and gaudy carbon fiber wings, the last thing you should be doing on the order of performance mods since you get so little for how much you spend.
Carbon fiber body parts to me are only worthwhile if the entire car is built and the interior is gutted, because the ONLY performance benefit to carbon fiber is it's weight/strength, so if you are getting to the point where weight reduction matters, I would hope to god your car is serious enough to have a gutted interior and be looking at reducing weight seriously. If people are putting carbon fiber on the car before that stage, it's purely for aesthetics because the performance benefit effectively is neutralized by the fact that there is surely somewhere else under the hood or in the suspension where you'd get far better value for the money.
Your diffuser looks nice, and it's tasteful, which isn't what I was referring to. That said, given what I just said above, I still would paint it.
IMO, carbon fiber==performance, not looks. As such it should be painted, be it on an M3, and R8, or whatever. Unpainted ruins the lines, and just looks weird in the sunlight; particularly on a black car, it looks like poorly cared for faded paint from a distance.
Yeah, and the 24 Hr. of Le Mans winning Peugeot 908HDi looks really ricey with all its unpainted carbon fiber. What were they thinking?
I can totally understand the aesthetics of CF is completely a personal preference. Personally, I love it on cars. But yea, it can be tasteful or tacky depending on the car color, location, and lines/contrast it produces.
Yeah, and the 24 Hr. of Le Mans winning Peugeot 908HDi looks really ricey with all its unpainted carbon fiber. What were they thinking?
Painted CF>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>unpainted CF
and yes, what were they thinking, looks like faded/poorly cared for black/gray paint from a distance
My 2006 Honda Accord...this was after about 6 hours of cleaning, waxing and clay bar when I first got it. I need to do this again over Xmas break to get her clean again:
Should take delivery this week. 2007 Mini Cooper S. Yeah baby.
Not my photo. Mines has black roof and mirror caps. Oh, and the black bonnet stripes. Photos when I get her.
Not my photo. Mines has black roof and mirror caps. Oh, and the black bonnet stripes. Photos when I get her.
Painted or unpainted to me would depend on what the rest of the car looked like, some places it looks great unpainted, some it looks great painted, its about how the overall car looks in the end.
On the "CF for performance side", you know painting it adds weight?
one on the tailgate. 
Yeah I know its a mini van, but it is for sale, and my dad and I looking at cars, it won't be my car, but it I will drive it the most .
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My new baby, I just picked it up yesterday.
2010 BMW 335i M-Sport Sedan with Black Sapphire metallic on Chestnut Brown leather and yes it's a manual!
I'm the blond one fyi.
That's a very nice car, and great choice on the manual.
A word of warning from someone who was given a BMW 5-Series when I was 17. No matter how well you practice and can control a car at its limit there are things you can't control like fine sand or debris on the road. I was 19 when I flipped my car at 180 km/h. I got out without a scratch, but my 5-Series was totaled.
Also remember: keep DSC off at low speed but always on at high speed.
I now drive a manual 330i E90 and I set tire pressure to 42 psi front / 40 psi rear for everyday driving. The 2 psi difference helps swing the rear end around turns and is actually quite effective. Anything less than 40psi at the rear and the car bounces at WOT from a standstill.
Take good care of that Bavarian masterpiece.
I disagree. Why do you say that? The only time I disable driver aids is on the track where DSC interferes with high speed cornering on a track (i.e. with a clean race line and predictable conditions), or if I need a bit of wheel spin, like getting out of snow.
Again, that may be true for your car, but it's not good advice to give out in general. Over-inflating tires can create safety issues due to reduced traction, not to mention it wears tires much faster. The only proper way to determine tire pressures is to get the tires up to operating temperature and check them with a probing pyrometer. Barring that, use the suggested pressures printed inside the drivers door. A lot of the HPDE novices come to the track for the first time with over-inflated tires, but they learn quickly enough they get faster and the car is more controllable when they adjust them correctly (again, using a pyrometer). Often, that means below recommended pressures, because under HP track conditions tires heat up a lot more than under street conditions.
Here is my car (the gray one) and my friend's.
Clean looking Civic, bro. What body kit is that?
Hey guys, kind of odd for a first post, I know! But here is my car, it is a 2005 Acura RSX Type-S....I thought some car guys in here might enjoy it.
Stats:
427.5whp 301.5 ft lb of torque(altitude corrected on the dyno)
Turbo is a Garrett GT3582r
Stats:
427.5whp 301.5 ft lb of torque(altitude corrected on the dyno)
Turbo is a Garrett GT3582r
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