I got a free Carbon Fiber hood, from a car with front end damage. I was wondering if it's fixable with a little cf fabric, and some epoxy/enamel. Let me know what you guys think.

I think this part could just be sanded and re-epoxied/enameled.






But this part has a decent chunk, so I'm assuming a layer of fiber would need to be laid in?



And would the areas like this just need to be wet sanded or wet sanded and cleared? You can see the little hair-line cracks running through the clear coat



I've never done body work. So any advice would be greatly appreciated. Or to at least know if it's even fixable at all. If not, I guess a hood bra will do the trick

 

Come on people this shouldn't be a hard question for you body repair guys.

 

Yes it can be repaired.

You should sand into the gel coat layer to form a repair ply are.

Get 2" blue maskin tape and make a template. Peel the template and lay it on the carbon fabric. Cut the ply out leaving the masking tape on. Mix up some west systems epoxy and brushe it to the back side generously. Work it into the fabric by dabbing.

Apply the repair ply and tape it down good with more blue masking tape. The. Apply aluminum hvac foil tape and squeegee air out. Let cure.

Peel tape off and sand smooth the repair. The more care you take the better the finished product. Composite repairs look very cool!

Search composite scarf repair for more info.

Good luck

 

Thanks man, I appreciate the help.

 

you do not repair carbon fiber, no matter what you do it is going to look like **** / hack work. The weave is obviously damaged. If you just sand and clear that, you will still have all those spider cracks, if you sand it more you are going to damage the weave. If you try to "patch" it will look worse. You would need to rewrap the entire hood with carbon weave, and add the resin via vacuum bagging.

Then again what do I know, spray painting your car with rubber is a "cool" thing in this forum now.

 

Carbon fiber can easily be repaired without hacking it up.

 

Sand it, prime it, block it, paint it. That's how I'd repair it!

 

For as long as the weave is not damaged then its repairable.

Dallasb84's process is absolutely doable.