question about carbon fiber hood

[hookdupdelsol]

If you want to protect your CF components without having to wax weekly the best thing to do is take the hood to a reputable custom paint shop and have them spray it with a couple of clear coats with a UV inhibitor. The fading is not due to the CF actually fading but due to the expoxy/vinylester/polyester resin pitting due to reaction to uv light and exposure to pollutants in the air. Yes, you'll pay 300-400 dollars but will save you alot of work down the line. Unless you love to wax your car.

Yea what he said! But seriously, what he said is correct! You can also avoid fading by buying products from reputable dealers. I am sure DGMotorsports is more than reputable for a hood especially at the price they charge, but I haven't bought any CF products for my car just yet. I know with my other car, visracing.com was known as one of the best producers of CF hoods because there weave is so clean and they try there hardest to make it "UV" resistent(or whatever you'd call it) for the buyer!

But yea, let us know what you end of doing and all and make sure you share your experience!!

P.S.-You said you are going to paint it, well when they paint the good they will probably just clearcoat it all together so the the paint doesn't have an open edge where it meets the CF... but yea, make sure you ask!! Hell, ask them if they would spray a light mist of red pearl on it for you, I think it would look hot! You wouldn't know it had the pearl until certain angles and than it would show a red, but that is my opinion! It might turn out pink... :-\

 

[Jspec]

Nah, no pink for me. I will ask for a clearcoat or I will take it back to Ziebart and and get another layer of paint protection done on my car again.

Now the hood, which one should I get? Vis or DGMotorsports? I am leaning towards DGMotorsports just because I am probably getting the carbon fiber grill too but if vis is cheaper and they are similar quality, I might go with Vis. I need some feedbacks on this please!

The reason why I am doing all this is because my friend crashed my car last Tuesday. If I can get a hold of someone with a camera, I'll snap some pics of it and post it up. At the end of this whole thing, I'll share my experience about this whole situatition.

 

[Dexter]

vis is gay

 

[Jspec]

Y do u say that?

 

[Dexter]

never seen one i liked, fading, cheap construction, just my humble opinion of course

 

[Jspec]

Well they probably look really similar to the DGMotorsports since there both OEM style hood. Now about the fading and cheap construction, can anyone back that up that has a vis hood here? Otherwise I'll take Dexter's words.

 

[Reffoxel]

never seen one i liked, fading, cheap construction, just my humble opinion of course

Can't be much worse than Wings West. The WW evo hood I got was horrid. We had to hand blob 50-60 pinholes. The mounting hardware was installed upside down and broke after we took the hood off the 3rd time, had to cut access holes to reinstall the mounting hardware, none of the edges were straight and the back edge was over trimmed by .5 inches. WW wouldn't return any of my emails or calls. So had to fix it ourselves.

Will let you know Tuesday if VIS has gotten any better. I ordered one a month ago and it's coming in on Monday(delay not VIS fault but one of their distributors).

The DGMotorsports stuff that I've gotten has been really good and has held up really well too (rear wing, rear valence, hatch center strip thingy, interior pieces). If your going OEM style hood I'd probably go DGMotorsports. I would have if DGM made an evo hood. They also have really good customer service. Any pieces I've gotten that I wasn't happy with they took back and sent me a better replacement quickly.

 

[Jspec]

Cool, let me know about the hood. I am dying to know how the vis hood's quality is.

 

[Onatrum]

I would have to agree that DGMotorsports was very friendly! Can't wait to see the hood in person!

 

[Snacks McGee]

Service was quick too. I ordered it on a Monday and they shipped it Wednesday...and i got it Friday!

 

[Jspec]

Cool. If you guys don't mind me asking, how much was shipping? Just like an est.

Question: With a carbon fiber hood, do you need hood pins to keep them down or will the stock latch keep it down? I would hate to have 2 hood pins on my hood.

 

[enigM@]

you don't need pins, but do install the rubber weather stripping under the hood. just look at your stock hood and you'll know what I mean.

 

[joka1]

1)yes
2)yes
3)yes

 

[Dexter]

from all that ive heard, the quality on the VIS EVO style hoods is great, but the OEM ones suck. ive had to return alot of OEM ones, and the ones ive seen in person have been faded.

 

[joka1]

my first evo hood had a scratch in it and the second one was good......... if you do buy one just inspect it really good before the delivery driver leaves. if it is damaged dont sign for it since vis has no warrenty. neither of mine faded though

 

[hookdupdelsol]

Well, I just know that ViS has a GREAT reputation in the Honda world and that I don't see why they wouldn't take that great craftsmanship over to the Mazda line but yea... If you are planning on getting other CF parts from DGMotorsports than I would get the hood from them also... If you don't know to much about CF than you need to know that each company uses a different 'weave'. They are SO different that you would probably need to get up close and personnal to see it but depending on the direction of the weave, you might be able to tell the difference between the ViS and the DGMotorsports, so I would stick with one company if you plan on getting CF that are up against each other, i.e. a hood and a front grille, a hood and fenders. I hope this makes some kind of sense!!!!!!!

 

[joka1]

the weave is the same direction between vis and dg. i will tell you how close they look when i get my grill
rob

 

[Onatrum]

you don't need pins, but do install the rubber weather stripping under the hood. just look at your stock hood and you'll know what I mean.

Where can you get the rubber weather stripping?

 

[Mr. Win]

^ auto parts store... or off your stock hood.

Vis is s***... a cheap fiberglass over lay that will not save you any wieght. The evo hood looks like ass with its fake ram air vents on the sides. Fiber images is the best and then DGM next. Wings West isnt bad but its been on back order forever.

CF unless a full CF hood is pointless other then if you think it looks good comestic wise.

 

[melicha8]

Far and away the Quality of fiberimages is the best. Coming in a close second would be DGM