In my engine bay, I have an intake cover and an engine block cover that came in CF. On the driver’s side, I have a cover that is black plastic OE. No one makes the thing in CF, but I’m trying to match the whole bay up for cohesiveness left to right.
I’m trying to find someone who can take a plastic cover and overlay it with CF weave so that it will match up with the rest of the bay as closely as possible. I had a guy in NY who does CF laminates for a living, and was an Audi owner, but he has since sold his car and I can’t get in touch with him via PM because he’s not on the Audi forums anymore.
Anyone know of anybody who’d do it? This thing doesn’t have to be aerospace-grade; it’s purely aesthetic and needs no structural rigidity to it. Thickness isn’t a problem; the edges where it connects can be ground down if needed as they are covered by the rubber surround strip. The weave isn’t even that important because the weave from the intake cover to the block cover is actually different from each other. In a perfect world, I’d like to match the intake cover.
Lemme know.
If someone does a good job, and you’d be wiling to take on the work, you can make some serious ching amongst the B6 and B7 model A4 Audi community because we’re all trying to get this done now.
TIA
PS- Here is my bay without the driver’s side cover. It essentially covers up all that ish on the driver’s side to the car’s left of the intake manifold and coolant reservoir, including the WW fluid reservoir. The cover isn’t on because it doesn’t look right with everything else CF.
Here is a pic from another car with that cover on. Not the best pic, but gives an idea, anyhow.
And here is a pic of the cover itself: