Repainting Carbon Fiber Products

[SpeedDemon]

Ive been thinking. People buy carbon fiber hoods, they put it on, and well it looks like carbon fiber indeed, and its lighter indeed, but what would be the cost of painting a carbon fiber product same color as your car? $50-100bucks? Anyways just thought of that, would look better then the carbon fiber itself.

[jaywo]

Thats why i bought a black car.... Don't have to paint it.... I'm not a big fan of a black(Carbon Fiber) hood on other colors.... Just reminds me of those cars you see driving with one door the wrong color, but thats just me. Some cars can pull it off, but the ones around here, look like they just took a hood from the scrap yard until u get up close and see its Carbon Fiber.

But i dont think it would be to expensive to paint... especially the new civics hood, its tiny.

[FujiBlueSi]

How much weight are you really saving though? The hoods are so tiny on the new Civics that it doesn't seem to be worth it if you are going to paint it. (I prefer my car one color as well, unless it's white.)

[CHRIS]

Originally Posted by FujiBlueSi

How much weight are you really saving though? The hoods are so tiny on the new Civics that it doesn't seem to be worth it if you are going to paint it. (I prefer my car one color as well, unless it's white.)

its true it reminds me of the s2000 hood, u could lift it with ur pinky

[twistedframe]

I agree that the stock hood is light, but that coupled with other weight saving mods (i.e. lighter flywheel/clutch/pressure plate, wheels, trunk) it could add up to some major weight savings. Every 100lbs translates to about .1 quicker in the quarter mile.

[SpeedDemon]

How much does the stock hood weight?..Anyone know? Im Curious.

[k20z3Vo]

uhhh...? I think it's about 50 hundred something million pounds...

[Celcius]

It's only 600 bucks for a CF hood. If you don't want to fork out 600 bucks, you could easily lose 10 pounds yourself and feel that .1 second difference.

At first I was considering the hood, but considering that the subs I'm getting heigh about 50 pounds each, I probably should be focusing more on whether or not I want to do any performance mods at all, because my Si will be relatively slow after adding all that weight.

[larryd]

I can't remember the exact numbers but I have seen it on another forum and if I recall there was only like a 3-4lb difference between the stock hood and a carbon fiber hood.

MOST people do carbon fiber for the look of carbon fiber not the weight savings :)

[twistedframe]

Originally Posted by Celcius

It's only 600 bucks for a CF hood. If you don't want to fork out 600 bucks, you could easily lose 10 pounds yourself and feel that .1 second difference.

At first I was considering the hood, but considering that the subs I'm getting heigh about 50 pounds each, I probably should be focusing more on whether or not I want to do any performance mods at all, because my Si will be relatively slow after adding all that weight.

no its 100lbs for .1 second

[twistedframe]

Originally Posted by larryd

I can't remember the exact numbers but I have seen it on another forum and if I recall there was only like a 3-4lb difference between the stock hood and a carbon fiber hood.

MOST people do carbon fiber for the look of carbon fiber not the weight savings :)

gererally there is about a 10-15 lbs saving w/ the hood and then another 10-25 for the trunk depending on whether you remove the spoiler.

[larryd]

generally yes but thats only if the stock hood weighs 20+ lbs which our hoods do not.

If I can find the thread I'll post the link here.

[larryd]

Ok from ClubSi

http://forums.clubsi.com/showflat.ph...78&an=0&page=0

OEM trunk: 25.4 lbs
CF trunk: 10.2 lbs

[SpeedDemon]

Yea, but now that im thinking about it, to lose a whole second, you would have to change the Hoods/Trunks, and for another extra second would have to change both doors to CF. My situation is that I want a black hood, not a dark grey hood like those CF ones. Especially in the sun, the Carbon Fiber looks alittle bit of a lighter gray, but once the sun goes out it turns black cause you arent able to tell the diffrence. So dont you think it would look nicer repainted in black, for a white car?

[FujiBlueSi]

Originally Posted by SpeedDemon

Yea, but now that im thinking about it, to lose a whole second, you would have to change the Hoods/Trunks, and for another extra second would have to change both doors to CF. My situation is that I want a black hood, not a dark grey hood like those CF ones. Especially in the sun, the Carbon Fiber looks alittle bit of a lighter gray, but once the sun goes out it turns black cause you arent able to tell the diffrence. So dont you think it would look nicer repainted in black, for a white car?

The problem with painting a hood black is that everyone who sees it is going to think you are faking the CF look. They may even say the "R" word.

[twistedframe]

if you paint it black it will just look like you got a hood off a black car from the junkyard.

[SpeedDemon]

Understandable, so that wouldnt be a good idea

[CameronJr9]

Originally Posted by FujiBlueSi

The problem with painting a hood black is that everyone who sees it is going to think you are faking the CF look. They may even say the "R" word.

Personally, I think the CF look on a white Si would be killer.

[twistedframe]

Originally Posted by CameronJr9

Personally, I think the CF look on a white Si would be killer.

agreed, i think carbon filber hoods look good on most light color cars. As for darker colors sometimes it just looks like your hood is dirty. lol

[FujiBlueSi]

I totally agree. White and CF look so good together that it made me wish I ordered my SI in white.