Carbon by Design Hood Features
  When purchasing a Carbon Fiber hood there are a lot of things to consider: fitment, materials, features, quality and reputation. While there are other Carbon Fiber Hoods on the market, we'd like to take some time to explain what makes this product so superior, and why you'll find Carbon by Design hoods in more new car dealerships across the country.
Why are so many Carbon Fiber hoods so Cheap? The answer is simple, they are constructed using substandard materials, often obtained from overseas. This materials is 100% American made, including the finest Marine Grade Clear Gel Coat which resists "yellowing," ten times better than the competition!
Carbon by Design hoods are created with the finest carbon fiber! Too much resin will turn a hood yellow; not enough gel coat will make a hood print the carbon pattern and hand lay-ups are plagued with thousands of air bubbles. They use a high and low pressure processes which allows for a wide array of product possibilities. Their clear gel coat is more difficult to apply and more expensive than conventional clear coats, but the difference is in the finish.
Parts are only as good as the molds they are pulled or generated from. With greater pressure to turn out a wider array of products, quality is often overlooked in the tooling stage in order to maximize revenue. Unfortunately, poor tooling produces hoods which fit poorly and suffer from less-than-perfect surface quality.
The outer skin of a hood provides no structural support to the hood. It is the inner that provides the structural backbone to support the hood and prevent warpage. Many of today's aftermarket hoods feature smoothed-out inners or picture-frame inners which only extend out 6-8 inches from the edge of the hood; neither one of these provides adequate support or structural stiffness. Carbon by Design models all of their inners as closely as possible to the original equipment to take advantage of the 100's of hours the factory engineers put into designing a structural inner which will provide a stiff and properly supported hood chassis.
The factory engineered the inner "that way" for a reason? Incomplete or changed factory inners not only suffer from poor structural design, but lack the critical crush designs which are so important. These inners are computer-modeled to both provide functionality and increased stiffness. Carbon by Design retains stampings and supports from the factory into their designs.
So what’s a rolled edge, really? The definition of a rolled edge varies greatly. Some will just take excess hood material and wrap it around the inner, which serves no purpose. These rolled edges are rolled at 90 degrees for a full .25" and increase stiffness in the hood by up to 50%. Their generation "B" hoods incorporate a double rolled edge which increases stiffness by 100% and reduces weight by 20%. All of their edges are unpainted, real carbon fiber.
Without a quality Latch what good is a hood? They took the time to fully engineer a factory-quality replacement latching system to guarantee a hood which can be opened over and over without missing a beat. Their latch assemblies are mandrel bent and TIG welded, deburred and then chrome-plated. It may seem like a lot of effort for a latch, but they are selling quality.
100% Stainless Grills! Their grills are Imported from Europe, made by the same manufacturer which builds the OEM grills for Ferrari and Bugatti. All of theie hoods feature 304 woven stainless grills inside and out! Their 1.5mm by 1.5mm grills keep debris out and allow plenty of air in!
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