So i'm getting the carbon by design hood. Im considering paritally painting it and leaving some carbon fiber showing. In paint I did a pretty poor example of how im considering painting most of it blue then having the scoops fade into carbon fiber. Thats the way im leaning torwards now. Can anyone make this look any better in photoshop so I can give my painter an idea. Also would love to hear some other ideas. I did two other ideas I thought of. The one with the most carbon fiber showing I like a lot but I dont like how the one little part of the bumper would be blue. I wish I could make that section carbon fiber also, so it looked like it all led into the front grill.

 

Just my personal opinion if you must leave some carbon bare.....

I would paint it all body color except the front two matching vents. Leave only the portion that stick up higher than the rest of the hood, inside and out carbon fiber.

I don't know what I am doing with paint or photoshop so my apologies, everything inside the red lines would be left carbon fiber, everything else painted.... And mesh painted black or removed completely. I have the seibon one, no issues through rain, car washes and winter snows with the mesh removed.

Again, just my own opinion and cr*ppy effects.

 

Leaving the outer portion of the vents unpainted in any way will look tacky as there will be too much "bulk" and masking clean lines around bulges is very difficult.

Paint everything except the inner portions of the vents like such:



That should give you plenty of contrast while retaining some OEM'ness to it.

 

That carbon hood very nice,,iam thinking order one soon,,I will not paint carbon much better that way,oh do you have to use pin and drills the hood when installs carbon hood??? Thanksx

 

Hood latches are not required on any hood, but is heavily recommended on some.

I have never used hood latches on any of my aftermarket hoods, but I also have not tracked (road course) with a carbon fibber hood either.....always used the factory hood when I did.

 

always always always use hood pins with aftermarket composite (FRP and CF) hoods..

not worth the risk of air buffeting weakening the latch mount and having the hood fly up shattering the windshield.. i've seen that done so many times when people didnt like the 'look' of a cf hood with pins

get AeroCatch hood pins.. nice flush mount.

as far as the paint scheme goes, paint it all blue and leave a strip of carbon near the window and leave the vents CF.. i think that would look great.

 

I havent received the hood yet. Suppose to be on the way. It claims you can use the factory latch. But as the previous poster noted, its always a good idea to use hood pins with an aftermarket hood.

Thanks for all the ideas guys. Gonna play around on paint some more and see if theres any of you guys ideas I like. Thanks for the photoshops too.

 

I do plan on either taking out the mesh or painting it black. I wanna see what it looks like when it gets here.

 

you could always vinyl wrap it in your body color so when u want to sell it, just peel it off and no worries about trying to find another person with the same color to sell it to.

just a suggestion.