Well I had a close friend of mine sand down the paint off my wing, and shoot it with 4 coats of clearcoat. He made sure to sand the actual wing surface as well, as it was yellowing in the major heat we have here. Here's a pic of it, right when he was nearly done sanding. Tommorow he's going to shoot it with 4 coats of clearcoat, woot.

Lemme know what you guys think. The reason for stripping it is that I'm going to be getting a CF trunk pretty soon, and wanted the whole CF wing look for it too.

 

Sweet! Post some pics when its done. I cant wait. I wanna do that same thing.

 

BAO!!!!!!!!!!! nice....

 

That is awesome! Taking off the paint to show the cf! I didn't think you could sand on cf, thought it would scratch. I was thinking of getting a new clear coat on my cf hood, cause the clear coat on it is messed up, would it be possible to sand it down to put a new clear coat on? Pretty much what he is oding then? Without damaging the cf?

 

Sweet....definitely post pics when its mounted.

 

Well he was wet sanding the entire thing with 400grit as not to scratch too deeply. He polished it out after this pic was taking and it was DAMN smooth.

 

who just IMed me this link?400 grit aint that smooth lol!!

 

Nice looking wing...i think itd look sweet on my soon to be tarmac black *Fingers crossed* Nice work there buddy

 

looks like your buddy works in a swamp.....

 

looking good

 

Wow look nice! I should be sick mount on a CF trunk

 

How can we do this ourselves? I dont understand WHY stupid Mitsu has the paint something over CF. IT'S CF!!!! Not some polymers or fiberglass. luckily they didnt paint the MR wing.

Can ur close friend start providing a service to strip down the paint? I mean, we can do a swap. Swap the stock wing for the nice stripped wing.

 

Mitsu paints the carbon because carbon composites do not like sunlight. I work in the aerospace industry (structures engineer, mainly metal though) and when I bought my Evo I talked to our composite engineers about the naked airfoil. They were really surprised to see it. They recommended I either get it painted or be sure to keep UV protection on it. As areet stated, he’s getting it stripped due to yellowing. That is just cosmetic. After enough time (likely longer than the average life of the car) the structural strength of the part can suffer. Still, I think what you have done to that one looks awfully nice and would go fantastic on a black Evo. I hope it all turns out for you. Just keep a good UV wax on it.

Best wishes,
f86sabre

 

that looks awesome!

take pix

 

My spoiler's clear coat was starting to turn white and come off on the leading edge. Mitsu is replacing it under warrenty for me.