Upon reading the cf thread, I desperately want to get a cf hood (and possibly trunk and/or spoiler) now

However, I am a student and i know real cf hoods can cost quite a bit.

So my question is, is cf vinyl still decent looking? and if so, how durable is it?
Also, I am located in Canada, so does anyone know a good place where i should go look for some and/or a good installer?

Thanks in advance

 

no it only looks like cf from a distance, upclose you can tell its fake

 

as much as you're gonna pay to wrap your hood or trunk in vinyl, you might as well jus throw down for a real one

 

4 Square Feet of the 3M Di-Noc CF Vinyl is $60. Thats 4' x 1'. I figure the truck is at least 3 feet possibly even 4 feet wide so you'd have to buy 16 square feet to cover the truck correctly and has to be all 1 sheet. If I'm not mistaken, thats pushing $300 shipped. I'd rather just buy the resin, CF fabric and gel coating and do it myself. Paying $600 even for CF just for "looks" is retarded. You use CF primarily for weight reduction or adding structural integrity to spoilers / lip / downforce aerodynamics for its strength and light weight.

You could always get lucky and find a rear ended balt in a junkyard with a CF hood but you would have to probably camp out at the junkyard or call them everyday to see if they got any stock in. My effort / patience paid off when I scored 2 Audi A4 Projectors for $30 for the set when they cost about $100-120 new.

 

Did my trunk in vinyl, 180 for material. 3MDi-Noc, labor and all was around 270. 2% of people that put CF on there car is for performance, other 98% is for looks. Check out the pics in my other thread, looks good and half the price. I did it to my work car to hide a bigass scratch, and I didnt want to spend a large amount of money on my work car, save that for the Ram

 

You guys are making this extremely difficult lol
So how much approximately would it cost me for the hood in vinyl? I know the price for the actual one from the group buy thread.

 

vinyl will be about $250-300 per trunk and hood while a cf hood or trunk will be $400-600

 

For the love of god save up and get the real ****

 

I am interested in doing CF but not until I would gain anything other than like 5 hp from the weight reduction. When I turbo up, then Ill invest in some weight reducing CF. I still don't know what Ill end up doing with the roof though.

 

You dont gain any hp from weight reduction. It does increase your power to weight ratio tho.

 

I understand that but what the context in my statement was that there would be more HP per # with reducing the weight.