How to Wrap a Modern Rally car

[ducatiman]

The M-Sport Ford World Rally Team recently unveiled their 2023 Puma livery, here's your chance to go behind the scenes and enjoy the wrapping process in more detail.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4sTLtCpdCs


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[hollytree]

So can I go into a Ford showroom and buy anything that resembles this, or do I just keep hanging onto my Focus RS Mk3.
At least people could buy a Stratos that resembled the rally car

[Longtimefan]

enjoy the wrapping process in more detail

I am sure it is not that easy as seems to be demonstrated here??

[ProtoTipo]

The red on the RB logos can't be produced by the inkjet.
They have to be cut from coloured vinyl and applied onto the spaces left for them on the printed wrap vinyl.

[ChrisCar6]

I doubt if the showroom cars have so much carbon fibre in them.

[hollytree]

no chance of one of these from the Ford showroom then
https://www.m-sport.co.uk/_files/ugd/89553f_fcd2ede96f164819b16d3bf6ef39d0ef.pdf

[Longtimefan]

Power levels back up to 'Group B' era, !!!!! when will this be restricted again? although suspension etc., has been improved since then.

[hollytree]

Sorry for hijacking the thread!

I am just struggling to see the relevance of a modern WRC car to the man on the street.
I have had proper Mini, Sunbeam Alpine, Sunbeam Tiger, Escort Mk2 RS2000, Impreza Turbo, Focus RS Mk3 and Stratos (rep) and they all gave me some sort of attachment to the sport.
Now as with Touring cars, I feel no emotion to rallying, but at any classic car show I will make a beeline for all of the above.
Sorry if it is just me.
Nuff said

[Azzo42]

Has anyone wrapped a Stratos replica? I'm talking vinyl not trees Norm :D

[Normb666]

Damn, you beat me to it.... ;)

[Guy Mayers]

Has anyone wrapped a Stratos replica?

I think the front louvre panels are a big issue, almost impossible to stop a wrap lifting away there.

[ProtoTipo]

Has anyone wrapped a Stratos replica? I'm talking vinyl not trees Norm :D

I've wrapped a Fiat 131.

Here's a Hawk wrapped in the later Alitalia colour scheme:
Notice that it has not been possible to cover the side air intake, or the edges of the rear louvres.

Wrap is more expensive, doesn't look as good and doesn't last as long.

[john]

Looking good.
And the car.....
Not to pick hairs, but it wasn't strictly a wrap. More applied vinyl. I gave up with Frederics Corse and ended up painting the front and rear clams but the side decals/stripes were vinyl.
Vacuum/heat applied vinyl will conform to any surface and you simply can't get it off, although that's probably old technology these days. Scale wouldn't be a problem either as they used to do those huge motorway signs that way.

[ProtoTipo]

Looking good.
And the car.....
Not to pick hairs, but it wasn't strictly a wrap. More applied vinyl. I gave up with Frederics Corse and ended up painting the front and rear clams but the side decals/stripes were vinyl.
Vacuum/heat applied vinyl will conform to any surface and you simply can't get it off, although that's probably old technology these days. Scale wouldn't be a problem either as they used to do those huge motorway signs that way.

Ordinary sign vinyl? I'm sure you're right John, but you'd have the same problems with expensive wrap vinyl. I know I did on the Fiat 131's scuttle vent holes, and it was good stuff I was using. The recesses in the boot lid were also a problem. Deep, and bending in two directions.

Modern vehicles, (and motorway signs) are largely flat, and lend themselves better to vinyl wrap.

Wrap vinyl, both coloured and printable, lets air pass through it. That's why you don't get air bubbles. You can heat it with a hot air gun and pull it around more, but that process isn't limitless.

[Strat Fan]

Probably one for David E to comment on-
Fully vinyl-ed bonnet louvre
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[ProtoTipo]

Probably one for David E to comment on-
Fully vinyl-ed bonnet louvre

Carefully designed for certain, and applied by an expert.