carbon fiber

im thinking about wraping my hood in carbon fiber and i was wondering if u needed to but a clear coat on. or the resin is good enough to protect it???

now why would you wanna "wrap" your hood in the stuff? why not take your hood off and put a carbon fiber peice in its place?

I think what you mean if you wanna go that route is to just wrap your hood in a carbon fiber vinyl. I wouldn't recommend using actual carbon fiber sheets to do it, only if you're making a hood or other parts.

yeah, I hope you don't mean to just make it look like cf, just save up and get one! DONT BE GHETTO

how much does a cf sticker cost? aha

prolly 10% more than single color vinyl

i dont want to wrap in vinal

i want to cover my hood with the real cf and resin and all that stuff

but im wondering if i need to put a clear coat on to protect it

And i got a 1996 v6 accord parts are hard to find and no job and in high skool

why aha..

i got dings in my hood and got no money to paint
so i figgerd cf wrap might be cheeper
and i can do myself

so let me get this straight...

u want to wrap your hood...with actual carbon fiber and not a vinyl with a carbon fiber design?


if u really want to wrap your hood in REAL carbon fiber, dont. just save up and buy the actual CF hood....your gonna waste time and money and have shitty(maybe nto shitty, but not as good a professionally done quality) quality...of course, this is my guess coz u asked about it, you probably don't know much about CF or have that much experience regarding the work that will go into it?

BUt if you are really determined to rice ur shit ... get 3M's Di-NOC CA-421 carbon fiber film...That'st he closest thing you can get to CF with out having CF. it's about 20$ sq/ft but if you buy more, it can get cheaper...Since you just want fashion, it should work.

good luck. Do a project thread.


oh yeah, you dont' need to use clear coat but it would help with the durability.

dude, jsut leave it alone, you will be laughed at once people figure out you ghetto wrapped your stock hood, you might as well just use cf tape... I would rattle can if you absolutely cant stand it.

save up and get a cf hood. if u wrap it its just throwing away your money, no purpose just to look good and wont last long. if u do it wrong the whole sheet will seprate form the metal and your fucked.