Sunburst

Finished fully detaling the car and took some pics with the new hood. It's a VIS carbon fiber hood (cant recall which one) that was dammaged in a wreck on another cobalt. I got it for $25.00 and had it fixed and painted. Im still on the fence with it but i've had alot of complements on it so far. We'll see if I still like it in a month. Whatcha think?

C_A_D88

Hate that hood, but car looks good

riceburner

iTrader: (66)

no me gusta but damn thats a great deal! 25 dollar hood ftw!

Shez

That hood is a little too much for me but the rest of the car looks good.

Sunburst

Thanks for the complements on the car folks. Like I said, i'm still not sure myself on the hood. Part of me likes it and part of me dont .

riceburner

iTrader: (66)

yea thats how it goes haha

but yea def. clean car.

nizzle

iTrader: (7)

The middle vents are fine. It's the vents closet to the edges that are hideous. The car, even the hood, besides those outer vents are

Sox-Fan

iTrader: (7)

I wonder if it would look better body color instead of black?

Shez

The outer vents and that shitty mesh looking stuff under the middle vents are what makes it look terrible and cheap.

I agree though. It would probably look better if it were matched to the car instead of black.

Sunburst

I was thinking the same thing so I talked to my painter about it. He said if he painted it orange he'd have to blend it into the fenders and bumper to make it look right (metallic paint ). Then if he did that the factory hood wouldn't match back up again because of the metallic in the paint .

TommyP

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I think it would look better color matched. It won't be perfect but as long as it's close... Blending is usually pretty obvious. I would either get it painted and blended, then repaint the factory hood, or just get it painted as close as he can. I've seen our guys match metallic paints pretty close without blending before, not usually perfect but close enough, the light alone can make it look wrong.

m33pm33p

Top view looks like some riced out honda ass. From the side though.. it's growing on me.

EmperorJJ1

iTrader: (5)

right mine is blended but i can tell it looks diff is certain lights. i would just paint the hood and done

Sunburst

Im also leaning on getting it color matched. Im sure he can get it really close I just dont want it blended because I want the factory hood to match perfect like it does. As far as looking "rice", that's what I DONT want. I had every honda that pulled up next to me want to race before I took the wing off.

Whatever I do I need to be done with it. It's already cutting into my Pedders fund .

TommyP

iTrader: (2)

if it looks pretty close it will be fine, hell my hood, front bumper, and rear bumper, were repainted, and are WAY off, and I really don't care, better than being a different color altogether, and it looks fine from most angles.

BlueStang

Yes it is. It's a Sanfrancisco treat.

Squintz

iTrader: (1)

Can't beat the price that's for sure.

b00sted06ss

iTrader: (10)

I've always liked that hood, looks good

tylerjclance

iTrader: (7)

Paint match the **** to your car
it will look a lot better.

574

iTrader: (5)

You should get a NOS purge kit for those vents lol

cuebalt

The whole colour blending thing is such a sham, ok you blend the fenders to the hood but the what about the doors? Better blend those too, but what about the quarter panels? Oh ya gotta blend those as well... At that point might as well wait the whole car. Just get the hood painted, if your painter is good he'll get it close enough so no one will notice the difference