Starting at 14 minutes into video. Are you kidding me, it's really that easy?

 

Yes! It is the exact same method we use to make aircraft parts. Your stock hood is used as a buck. Be aware that real carbon fiber sheets are expensive, but you can use common fiberglass sheets for the base and top it with a sheet of carbon fiber.

 

That way works for something like a "one off" pin on hood, I guess, but it isn't the right way to do it. There are tons of imperfections in their hood, and it's also larger than the stock one since they just laid up over top of the existing hood, instead of making a mold. Usually this is how you make the mold, then use the inside of the layup to pull the real parts off. It's fairly easy to do, just a lot more steps, and experience to make the finished part to look good

 

While it is true that a high quality or structural part would use a different process and a pressure/temperature controlled autoclave (and different resins and carbon sheets), what they made matches the quality of the rest of their work. There is a reason the show is called "Carcass". They could also use the underside of the hood to form a structural grid that would be bonded to the top skin to add rigidity and threaded inserts for hinges and a latch.

 

No, unless you're on some jack-leg TV show.

 

Why did you quote my text without quoting my text?

 

Here's the first video of 3 parts on how to correctly make a carbon fiber hood. Haven't tried it. I'm more interested in a carbon fiber front splitter possibly? 5in rear spoiler possibly? But goes through every step. Looks like it would take some work, but give er a go and see what happens.

 

Scooter, I believe that poster to be a "Bot". It also did the same thing with soloc4's post, an exact repost of soloc4's post without quotes. I don't know why Bots do this, and this is the first time I've seen it happen here at TGO. I've seen this before at the RC model airplane site I visit, they ban about 5 or 6 of these Bot accounts each week. The moderator here may well want to ban "rhysfaulkner" before it does whatever it is that Bots do......

 

You might be right; that poster, and all his/her/its posts have disappeared from this site. A bot on a forum is usually here to mine data to be used to target advertising through the site's PM system, or, more commonly, to post spam to draw forum users to some other site, usually, as you might expect, to get $$$ from them. Not saying that was the case with this particular user (could have been some forum/internet noob who had no clue how to post on a forum and subsequently asked Admin to delete his account), but just general info I've gathered from being a forum moderator on another large, non-automotive internet forum site.