I just purchased an aluminum hood and i need to get it painted and i was wondering if anyone had any advice or perhaps pictures of a red 91 N/A FC, or any red FC with a black hood, or should i just try and paint match.
Thanks for your input.

 

I personally like a flat black hood....I autocross and the damn reflection blinds me with a "bling bling" paintjob... That's my personal preference..... I think you should paint the center flat black and do the outer area bodymatch that would be cool........good luck

 

IMO, black hood on a red car usually means you want someone to think you have a carbon fiber hood or something, or that your too poor to get a part painted once you got it from a junkyard. I'd get it color matched.

 

i have to agree with ocelet, i see far too many hondas with their hoods painted black and it just looks cheap

 

Who cares. He's asking what it would look like, so can anyone post a pic? Red car + black hood

 

I think it looks pretty cool. See an example here:
http://teamfc3s.org/images/redfc333.jpg

 

even if i get a caron fiber hood i would still paint it the same color of my car.

http://www.paintscratch.com

best place i found for matching paint with paint codes for the almost any car.

 

unless its CF, paint it to match the car... even when its CF sometimes it should be painted

 

here's my car before the bomex kit and 5 lug swap.

http://railegelbvieh.com/upload/uploaded/000_0225.jpg

 

just got straight carbon fiber

 

oh btw my hood was aluminum also....that was the reason for the swap.

 

kk Thank you all very much for your input and yeah i was hesitant about painting black because i didnt want to seem like i was trying to fake cf or look too poor to afford paint, well we'll see what i do.
if anyone has anymore pics of red fc + black hood i'd love to see them
~itaidoushin

 

 

Gtudrifter, is that the stock S5 front in that pic?

 

Yeah,

 

it all depends on what you like man just go for and if anyone gives you any guff tell em' to f off!

 

I prefer color match myself. Like Ocelot said, it makes it look like your trying for the CF look. Remember, the anti rice ****'s are always patrolling these threads ready to bash you for having some fun.

 

my fc is also red with a black aluminum hood. the reason for mine is...i am a poor college student and can't afford to color match. the paint was really bad since it sat out in the sun for quite some time so i just painted it flat black, just so it won't rust or get messed up. it would have looked weird if i painted it red, and it didn't match the car. if it was black, it wouldn't matter that much about matching. i have a black stock spoiler on mine too (got it black) so it sorta matches i guess. my whole car is sorta rough and ugly looking but eh, i like it.
i'll post some pictures this weekend when i get my digicam back from my brother.

 

makes it look like a typical ricer who wishes they could afford a CF hood, but paints it black instead.

But to each their own...

 

I am in the process of getting my hood with a ram air hood scoop added, mirrors, and rear wing all painted semi gloss black. I will post some pics when I get the stuff back from the paint shop. The reason for this is that the red on my 90 GTU is not to good and some day I will get the whole car painted.

Later

 

bahaha, nice firebird.

 

The Firebird is color matched with a ramair hood also. As you can tell I like ramair hoods.

 

I saw the picture you posted. Now im throwing up in the middle of the community college library. thanks alot. Now my lunch is going to taste bad as well.

 

nice, im painting my car yellow with faded black hood!! should look sweet!!

 

looks fuc#$% terrible