Surprised a Mustang owner knows that. Harlequin Mk3 Golfs. Rare and awesome. :beer:
Carbon Fiber Hood?
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Surprised a Mustang owner knows that. Harlequin Mk3 Golfs. Rare and awesome. :beer:
i used to be a VW guy...i had a flash red MK3 GTI VR6 on audi TT wheels :beer:
I was told that they are a fiberglass skeleton and then the CF is wraped/layed over it.
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Carbon Fiber hoods look stupid on anything. Even worse on a Cobra. If you want to use it for weight reduction, get a real CF hood, but paint it.
I have the VIS Carbon Fiber hood on my black Vert and I have thought about painting it and leaving the area behind the openings unpainted. Honestly from most angles you can not even tell untill you look at it up close. The difference in weight was drastic. I never weighed them but my hood struts almost lift the CF hood on their own. I highly suggest you go to the distributer and look at the hood to check for imperfections as noted before. Check for bubbles, overlay, and spacing. I love mine and remember........It is all about what you like!!!!!!! Here are some pics for you. Oh and if you get the Cobra hood the vents are bigger than factory ones but the fitment was perfect with mine.
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vis is pretty good quality. my little bro runs one on his rsx and its fit and finish is pretty darn good. doesnt look too bad either on a white car
wickdvenm winds hands down! sick!!!!!!
THanks man! Like I said its not everyones cup of tea.. hell even some of my freinds gave me crap about it.. but now when I roll up to a club meetings with the stock hood on all I hear is "Awww I wanted to see the CF hood"
Oh and here is whats under it..
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If its painted white it will look good. If you want people to see that is it carbon fiber then make a design in it like stripes or something so that you cann still see some carbon. But just paint some of the hood to tie it in because I think it looks so tacky (rice) when the entire car is white and you have a carbon fiber (black) hood. It looks like someone went to the junk yard and got a hood from another car. Suggestion: if you get a cowl carbonfiber hood then paint the sides of the hood and leave the cowl (bubble, roughly the shape of a V) unpainted, that would look pretty sick..
For example this looks better...
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I see nothing rice about WIKDVNM car and his hood is black. WIKDVNM sick car!!!!
I thought about that but I was also thinking about this...
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Compared to this, which do you thinks looks better?
That looks good. I think I will leave it black for a while and then do what you did in the middle pix that looks really good. Thanks for the ideas.:beer:
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Or
Compared to this, which do you thinks looks better?
NONE of the above.
I would leave JUST the cowl area unpainted. Then, it would line up with the grill opening.
I thought about that but I was also thinking about this...
That looks really good too!
That's not a true carbon hood then... And def rice if you over lay a fiberglass hood with CF.
That would look good as well, but at the same time you understand what I am trying to get across. Be creative with the carbon fiber hood and tie it into the theme of the car. Don't just throw on a carbon fiber hood because its carbon fiber, in my opinion that is just tacky. Be creative with it and it will look 100x better, it will look like it was created for you car alone and follow the lines of the car. Here is your idea...:beer:
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