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Has anybody put any of their forged carbon on a silver car? I'm about to buy the front grill, rear diffuser, side streaks and mirror caps. The very few pictures I saw made the forged carbon look a bit too flashy, I was thinking about going with regular weave instead.
This is not an answer to your inquiry but I got a carbon fiber slam panel from them for my Vantage V12S. Fantastic quality with excellent pricing and customer service.
Personal taste. I personally prefer the traditional weave carbon fiber, but some believe the forged carbon looks better.
I do suggest seeing it in person before you decide
Michael from ECPS (owner) makes a lot of forged carbon for the Aston. I believe Rich from Redpants and Michal made a vlog about it on youtube where Michael rebuilds a DB9 and does the entire car in forged carbon.
It's a personal taste. I did not like forged at first, but I've seen them on my friend's Performante and 765LT and it looks amazing. Lots of supercars coming standard with forged carbon. Lamborgini created it first and released it on the Performante lineup. I think it makes the car look way more exotic. Traditional carbon is more classic and classy, forged IMO is loud.
This is just stream-of-consciousness pondering, and not an opinion, but I've wondered how people will look at carbon fiber "bits" on cars in another forty or fifty years? Will it be pretentious, charming, or classy, depending on the application (the way we see wood trim now)? Will it be seen as silly, like the fake hood pins my brother had on his AMC Javelin back in the '70s? I guess the reason I think about it is that CF was developed for purpose (strength:weight) not decoration.
I'm guilty in the worst way, covering part of the center console of my Gen 1 DB9 with fake carbon fiber wrap. I did it because the main part I covered is just painted plastic (fake aluminum), so Aston Martin was already guilty themselves of using one material to pretend to be another, and it had a couple of chips and scratches (yeah, I had the wood refinished, too). Oh, well...sorry for wandering off topic!
The pictures above are not my car but should give you an idea.
Are you sure you guys aren’t confusing forged and chopped carbon? The badge is forged, while the photos below are chopped. Forged is very plain, uniform looking while chopped is very messy looking IMO (like the equivalent of chip wood sheets used for houses).
Are you sure you guys aren’t confusing forged and chopped carbon? The badge is forged, while the photos below are chopped. Forged is very plain, uniform looking while chopped is very messy looking IMO (like the equivalent of chip wood sheets used for houses).
I might be confusing the two. Here's another pic from the ECPS with forged carbon fiber. I don't think it looks very uniform, though:
I mean, it really depends on the process if it's actually forged or not. To make a piece that thin and uniform, I would think it's actually forged. They're just using chop and putting it in a press mold which would make it forged.
I mean, it really depends on the process if it's actually forged or not. To make a piece that thin and uniform, I would think it's actually forged. They're just using chop and putting it in a press mold which would make it forged.
No it doesn’t. That is not the process of forging.
