Carbon Fiber Hoods

[pilotlars at yahoo.com (Lars Bruchmann)]

painting is not that difficult, especially if you've
ever painted before, i had lots of experience with
models, so it was just a matter of scaling up.. a lot!
removing the hood makes it easier, obviously.  just
either remove all the old paint with a stripper or
sand it down, then use progressively higher grit
abrasive paper to make a mirror smooth finish on your
primer.  if you can feel an imperfection, you'll see
it in the finished coat. 
i just got done painting my '79 beauty, and i learned
a lot.  for a while i was driving around with no hood,
no hatch, and no doors.  it was kinda loud, but the
ventilation was great!!  and except for my left leg
being quite a bit more tanned than my right one.. it
was a lot of fun!!  
--- "Camron D. Crouse" <camron@worldaccessnet.com>
wrote:

> I'm in a very irksome situation.  As some of you
> here may remember from 
> my prior posts, my Scirocco was "sandwiched" in
> January 2002.  The car 
> was totaled, salvaged, and restored. This resto
> included 100% new paint 
> (black, as was original color), which was basically
> nice except for a 
> few areas - some slight "orange peeling", and poor
> coverage of front US 
> style bumper (bumper trim was misaligned at time of
> painting, when 
> strightened it revealed a missed portion). In
> addition, some minor rust 
> spots had been treated prior to priming, and those
> spots, albeit small 
> and in inconspicuous places, have expanded under the
> paint to form 
> raised blobs. I had always meant to take the car
> back to the bodyshop to 
> see if they'd have a look, but for whatever reason
> never got around to 
> it.  Well as it turns out, this summer I've
> developed a new paint 
> problem with my hood, as as Murphy's Law would
> dictate, the shop is no 
> longer in business.
> 
> The symptons of the hood paint problem - slight
> fading of the paint in a 
> few areas, which have grown in size over the summer,
> and developed into 
> a "rotting" of the enamel... it's starting to look
> just awful.  Like the 
> paint has formed tiny little bubbles, which have
> burst and flaked off. 
> Nasty. The rest of the car's paint has been quite
> stable (aside from 
> aforementioned rust-treated spots), but I have a bad
> feeling that it's 
> only a matter of time...
> 
> At any rate, I'm trying to decide if I should have
> the hood repainted, 
> or if I ought to go with a Carbon Fiber hood. 
> Either way wont be cheap, 
> but I wanted feeback from those who have gone the CF
> hood route.
> 
> Or option 3, I could take a stab at painting the
> hood myself - shit, I 
> can't make it look any worse!  I'm pretty artistic,
> though I'd need to 
> get a sprayer...
> 
> Now accepting input...
> 
> 
> - Camron from Vancouver, WA USA
>    '86.5 Black 16V 2.0L
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