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Color match or Carbonfiber

JCG's-GTP

JCG's-GTP

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Well since I'm going to be buying a new hood (tyvm hail) Should I color match or carbon fiber? I think CF would look good on my color but it wouldnt be too ricey would it? Anyone have a CF hood? Just wondering how fitment is on them. Thx!
 


carbon fiber is only going to look good if you have other black accents. otherwise id match the color.
 


How sturdy is the fiberglass version. I had a really bad experience with Z3 fenders for my prelude and lost 300 bucks because of it. Trying not to make same mistake twice. And I was told hood pins was a MUST.... don't really like that idea.
 
I say go carbon. You don't necessarily have to leave it all carbon either. A ton of different ways you could paint/expose it. You have the same color GP as my Comp G. If I was keeping it I'd put the carbon fiber hood on it. Pics below are of Thriller's silver GP. Don't think he is a member here so far though.

He has said it fits well and has held up excellent. I don't know of any GPs with it running hood pins. It uses the stock hinges and latch. I'd guess a little higher quality than the fenders. My old silver 98 had a carbon fiber F1 hood on it years ago also. Good quality, looked nice.

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I like the idea of painting it and leaving some CF accents, but I think an all CF hood tends to look a little overdone, like you're making sure everybody knows you have a CF hood. I won't use the R word, but I agree with GP2003GT above.

Not to dump on LowlyfeGTP's car (which does look good). Silver with CF looks sharp and the rims tie it in well, but I think it would look better either with some of it painted, or if you did the rest of the car in a two tone (silver & charcoal to match the CF).
 
Not my car. Although my 99 GTP and my old AEDC 98 GTP both have/had the same theme as Thriller's (My Greystone Metallic Comp G is stock). I agree, like I said above, a ton of different directions you can take with the paint/carbon fiber exposure.
 


My old 98 GTP had the carbon fiber F1 hood and used stock hinges, struts, and latches. I don't know of anyone using hood pins out of necessity with the carbon fiber hoods. There are of course some hoods that were offered in limited quantities for the 97-03 that did require hood pins as they were race hoods basically (at least one is still offered). Sorry off topic to 04+ specific, but as far as I've ever seen or experienced the carbon fiber hoods (F1, SD, and Inferno) are very good fit/finish.

CF or not your GP will look nice and you have options.
 


carbon fiber i think is more for the sport compacts/imports. grand prix's i would classify them in the muscle car group!
 
Alot of Muscle cars had flat black (or painted variations) fiberglass hoods -> modern muscle car cleared or dry carbon fiber (or painted variations). Most things imports have, muscle and hot rods had first. ;)
 
Not all carbon fiber this and that is rice, just depends on how you go about using it, and how its installed. I have carbon fiber on my car, mainly for looks, as well as being some very useful innovative installments. I just wanted to set myself apart from everyone else, and have atleast some, one off parts on my car nobody else would have.

I think for a carbon fiber hood on anything but a black car, you should at least make an attempt to paint some of your body color into the hood so it does not look so "bolted on". I think just slapped on there screams budget rice, kinda like painting a stock steel hood black, so on the highway others may think its carbon fiber for example. I see that all the time here in my town.

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