carbon fiber hood question

[v1c10us]

yeah, technically i couldn't even get a speeding ticket on the road because it is not labeled, it doesnt have a route number or anything its just a long piece of pavement.
edit: a new clearcoat should run you between 100 and 250 bucks in my opinion, you could do it yourself, you can get fairly good spray guns for like 90 bucks these days, if you have a compressor you could order some clear on the internet and give it a spray.
I would sand the hood first though because they come with a gelcoat not a clearcoat, the clearcoat wont really do its job if its ontop of a gel coat because the gel coat will still fade and peel and stuff

[eternal135]

yea i called a local autobody shop and they said it would run me about 250, but im going to wax an buff it out first to see if that helps it at all

i wish there were roads around here with no posted speed limit.

[dichotomous]

use a ton of wax, and the wax you use should be from a marine shop, boats are made from fiberglass and sometimes carbon fiber, so these waxes are designed with that material in mind, ask them about which would be best. and wax it a lot, there isnt any paint and its not likely clear coat or paint but actually the epoxy resin thats clear on your hood, this is not anywhere near as UV stable as paint, wax helps diffuse UV light so it will make it last longer.
dont use the hood when its snowy or really cold. I did (VIS racing mugen style hood) and it has huge cracks and splits and such where the cold air and hot engine made the clearing crack. be sure to use heat sheilding under the hood, that could have also contributed to my serious hood issues.
be very carefull about your windsheild sprayers, a majority of my cracks came from one of those.

[dichotomous]

yeah, technically i couldn't even get a speeding ticket on the road because it is not labeled, it doesnt have a route number or anything its just a long piece of pavement.
edit: a new clearcoat should run you between 100 and 250 bucks in my opinion, you could do it yourself, you can get fairly good spray guns for like 90 bucks these days, if you have a compressor you could order some clear on the internet and give it a spray.
I would sand the hood first though because they come with a gelcoat not a clearcoat, the clearcoat wont really do its job if its ontop of a gel coat because the gel coat will still fade and peel and stuff

you state has speed limits for unmarked roads, and you could easily get a "careless and negligent" or "wreckless driving" ticket, which can be worse, not trying to put sand in your panties again (though it appears I am good at that) but I'd rather you not get tossed in jail for doing a buck twenty down an unmarked backroad with a state limit of 50mph

[v1c10us]

well, it was more than a buck twenty.
But no they can't actually give me a ticket, I understand what your saying but I guess its hard to grasp the remoteness of this asphalt.
It would be akin to owning 40 acres of plainsland and putting asphalt on it and then taking your car there and then a cop showing up and giving you a speeding ticket.
Thats like saying I can get a speeding ticket in my driveway, if it were long enough.
Im sure there are civil violations i could incurr, but no traffic violations.
Its no biggy though cause theres no way in fuck a cop would drive 80 miles away from the nearest gas station and then take a muddy dirt road thats almost overgrown with bush to a mound of dirt with a road next to it.

[SIck03]

i wish i had something like that!!

I have a vis cf hood and I do not use hood pins.
I have actually never seen a CF hood fly up with no hood pins.
I have however seen CF hoods using hood pins and not the oem latch fly up.
There was a guy in a crx at the music city motorplex last year and his hood flew up at 90mph and he crashed into the other car when he slammed on the brakes and slid into the other guys lane.
Darn drag racers.
I did over 145(according to the speedometer, really more like 135ish cause the speedo is off by so much at that speed) with my CF hood and it did not fly up for the 14 seconds I was going that speed, or the 40 million hours it took me to get up to that speed
And i dont want no lectures about driving fast, theres an 8 mile stretch of road in clarksville that they started building for a car factory which was never finished because they decided not to build the plant.

[rapgonrn]

i've been taking good care of my hood (VIS) but along the top side its starting to crack... my friend said to wetsand it, and reapply the clear coat. are there other ways of going at it?