If ANYONE at all has pictures of a carbon fiber hood on their third gen, please post it! I've been looking at the Carbon Creations cowl hood, and the thing is, my Camaro's hood is painted black in the middle, I guess the previous owner thought that would look neat, because of the black louvers. But, I've decided to keep that design of a partially black hood, but change it up a little to carbon fiber in the middle, instead of just black paint.

 

http://www.badassiroc.com

Look in the "Third gens around the world" and you will see a japanese third gen with a cf hood.

 

Thanks, all I've been able to find is the small blurry pic from Carbon Creations, trying to see some different angles. Need a good view before I invest $600+ Lol.

 

Post up what you have, i may have a better picture of it.

 

bah for the price...paint it to look like carbon fiber.

My dirty secret? go to a dollar store and get that grippy shelf liner stuff that has a grid pattern on it.

NOW, paint your hood base/clear black and get a really heavy metallic silver.

Paint black base, 1 coat of clear, wait till its just dry and drape a piece of the mesh liner over the part, spray the silver (with a lot of metallic --NOT-- FLAKE, fine metallic), remove the mat, 2 light coats of clear, wesand with 800, and 2 more coats of clear. Bada Bing...that thing will be dripping with sex appeal

For a more interesting look, apply the silver a second time after offsetting the mat one grid square...or off set the mat and then use a darker silver or even say a red.
Buy something cheap black and shiny, scuff lightly with wet 1000grit, and use silver enamel spraycan stuff from the hobby store (dont do this on anything expensive for practice, as it may lift the black mystery paint), then compatible spraycan clear for a testbunny.

SOME auto paints wont allow you to apply the silver over the clear as described in the first procedure; so check with the paint stores paint guru (not the regulation counterbltch) or on autobody101.com...you may either need to let the clear cure...wetsand and then apply...or use whats called an intercoat clear...basically clear basecoat thats used to lock the color down in really thick multilayered paintjobs...this makes the foundation incredibly stable BTW. But, you can probably use the 're-coat' window and be alright. try it first on a test panel, its good to practice on something thats NOT your car, when shelling out money for automotive paint...you dont want unfixable mistakes. ALL painters make mistakes...the good ones can fix them.

SECOND note...wetsanding the clear and then respraying 10% thinned clear is called a flow coat and looks awesome...takes practice though, some paints respond better to wetsanding 800, 1000, then spraying...sanding that 1000, 1500, 2000, 3000 then buffing followed by swirl remover for that show car shine

 

I'm not worried about the money or investment really, I just want good views and opinions of it before I dump cash into it. The whole thing is, I'm sick of the 50+ pound steel hood. I'm just weary of how carbon fiber will look on my Camaro. You can kind of see the partially black hood, painted black in the middle near the louvers, I decided to keep that look but paint it blue on the sides, bare carbon in the middle. The sum of this situation is I'm going for a little bit of weight savings, but don't want it to look silly, or un-natural, sort of not fitting for the era.

 

I'll post a picture of my actual Camaro first, so you can get the concept I'm going for, with keeping the original partial black in the middle around the louvers, the previous owner thought it'd look neat, forming almost a stripe with the dark tint of the T-tops following. Now here's basically the only decent picture I can find of a third gen with the actual hood I'm looking to buy.