Painting Carbon Fiber, please help Options

[bringindaheat573]

I was thinking to buy the C-1 replica hood for my car but i dont want to leave it carbon fiber black i wanted to paint match it to my car but is there anything special i need to do because its carbon fiber?

[punkuup5150]

ive been looking everywhere for this speical sandpaper and cant find it. ive also been searching for a good 30 mins on a how to paint carbon fiber and all i can find is how to paint somethign to look like carbon fiber. i dont see why it woudl be hard to wet sand it then primer and paint it if you go through the clear ull just hit the resin wihc will just help smooth it out since it usually has some imperfections and little dips in there any ways. if your really worried about making it lay flat use a high building primer to fill in those imperfections and sand that down re primer wet sand and paint and clear like normal. it can be made to look oem but its going to alot of work for a hood. your spending all this money on the hood why cover it up? i dunno it just doesnt make sense to me to spend our good hard earned money on something expenisve like carbonfiber and paint it lol. but good luck with the painting i hope the outcome looks awsome and your happy thats all the matters

[SeverX13]

ive been looking everywhere for this speical sandpaper and cant find it. ive also been searching for a good 30 mins on a how to paint carbon fiber and all i can find is how to paint somethign to look like carbon fiber. i dont see why it woudl be hard to wet sand it then primer and paint it if you go through the clear ull just hit the resin wihc will just help smooth it out since it usually has some imperfections and little dips in there any ways. if your really worried about making it lay flat use a high building primer to fill in those imperfections and sand that down re primer wet sand and paint and clear like normal. it can be made to look oem but its going to alot of work for a hood. your spending all this money on the hood why cover it up? i dunno it just doesnt make sense to me to spend our good hard earned money on something expenisve like carbonfiber and paint it lol. but good luck with the painting i hope the outcome looks awsome and your happy thats all the matters

haha well tis not sandpaper thats carbon fiber specific. its just some different sand paper.

but im sure if you take it to a bodyshop they can do it no problem. I was acctually going to paint my hood as well but then once i saw the hood up close after opening it it just looked so great so i saved money and paint by keepin it CF. Red and CF look good together. but like punkuup said, what you like is what matters