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    Whats the meaning of car hoods painted in black? I'm just curious... I find it ok naman but just want to know ung meaning... Thanks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dexmabugat View Post
    Whats the meaning of car hoods painted in black? I'm just curious... I find it ok naman but just want to know ung meaning... Thanks.
    For me, they are trying to look cool na carbon fiber kuno ang hood nila.

    One way to reduce the weight of a car is to change the metal hood to carbon fiber.

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    Madami din akong nakikitang ganyan, pero bibihira lang yung talagang CF ang hood.

    Quote Originally Posted by meledson
    For me, they are trying to look cool na carbon fiber kuno ang hood nila.
    In short, they're just posers.

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    Posers pretending that their hoods are carbon fiber. Nothing more.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mazingerZ View Post
    Posers pretending that their hoods are carbon fiber. Nothing more.
    hahaha

    my hood is CF, but not black

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    It's interesting to note that the CF panels purchased by hobbyist tuners and street racers for their mods, are rarely made of full carbon fiber.

    Oftentimes, the panels are just made of a single CF layer laminated onto the fiberglass, for the "look" of carbon fiber. Then they just leave it unpainted to show the carbon fiber weave.

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    Pa post naman ng pix ng tunay na carbon fiber hood. :D
    Last edited by meledson; February 6th, 2008 at 02:20 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bogeyman View Post
    It's interesting to note that the CF panels purchased by hobbyist tuners and street racers for their mods, are rarely made of full carbon fiber.

    Oftentimes, the panels are just made of a single CF layer laminated onto the fiberglass, for the "look" of carbon fiber. Then they just leave it unpainted to show the carbon fiber weave.
    Yet stores are selling them as "real" CF hoods or panels... hehe dami din kasi nagpapa-uto eh.

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    Quote Originally Posted by theveed View Post
    Yet stores are selling them as "real" CF hoods or panels... hehe dami din kasi nagpapa-uto eh.

    sir theveed, panu po yung nagpa-paint lang ng black sa hood, para matakpan lang yung mga rust at kupas.ok lang ba yun?..dahil wala pang pampa-wash over..

    kakahiya pala yung car ko..pretending CF...yun po pala tawag dun..

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    maganda sana kung totoo na may intercooler... but all it does is drag you.

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    rav4 ko dati black hood.... kasi nabangga and the stock/replacement hood color is black, you need to have it repainted to match your car's color everyone though pinopormahan ko ung car

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    Quote Originally Posted by dexmabugat View Post
    Whats the meaning of car hoods painted in black? I'm just curious... I find it ok naman but just want to know ung meaning... Thanks.
    Painted black hoods are sometimes used to minimize the glare from the sun to the driver in car racing like touring cars, etc.

    Others have carbon fiber hoods and prefer not to paint over the carbon fiber.

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    for me boss minsan porma lang din, kasi kahit sa oner meron ding hood na painted ng black............

    meron kami oner stainless body gusto ko ipa paint ng black ang hood sabi ng shop na dinalan ko huwag na daw sayang naman daw ang stainless..........

    for me gusto ko lang sana color black sya...........hehehehe

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    Quote Originally Posted by mazingerZ View Post
    Posers pretending that their hoods are carbon fiber. Nothing more.
    yup... based on hearsay, it can add around 1-2 hp on your car...

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    Quote Originally Posted by 1D4LV View Post
    yup... based on hearsay, it can add around 1-2 hp on your car...
    hehe.. more like -2hp.

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    i have a black hood! bolted on my black car! hehehe wala pala talagang solid na cf na hood? kaya pala mabigat din

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    when a car has about 100 hp and sports a black hood= RICER

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    Quote Originally Posted by ghosthunter View Post
    Painted black hoods are sometimes used to minimize the glare from the sun to the driver in car racing like touring cars, etc.

    Others have carbon fiber hoods and prefer not to paint over the carbon fiber.
    +1 flat black

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    carbon look?! well, ther diff. bet. a true carbon hood and a painted ones besides look would be... if you knock it and its lata. Ha ha! Pero true carbon reduces the weight of the car, useful for tuners.

    And to dude Joeverzosa, not all 100hp cars w/ black hood car5bon or not are ricers... a 100hp Suzuki Cappuccino can smoke tuned compacts w/ higher hps. ;)

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    I have a black hood on my car but it's not paint or carbon fiber, it's pick up truck bedliner. I got tired of the stone chips on my hood from driving on the freeway and having a hood rougher than sandpaper, so I used bedliner and now I don't have problems with paint chips. People that see it think it's weird but it's functional so I really don't care about their opinion.

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