S550 Carbon GT350 Hood Vent / Fender Vents

[50 Deep]

Well my adventure continues. The car is over getting ceramic coated at Imperial Works in Sacramento. This is the last bit of preparation before the Fabulous Fords Forever show in Buena Park at the end of this month. I stopped in to check out the cars progress and drop off a few things. I have to say that the Ceramic coating has a definite effect on the depth of the paint, and shine on the exposed carbon fiber. I will highlight it more in a different post, but I wanted to show how my S550 Carbon mirror caps came out

I also wanted to share some teaser photos of the new parts I am happily going to debut for S550 Carbon. They will be releasing a hood vent and fender vents for our cars. I provided some input on a new variation of the GT350 Hood Vent. This is an all carbon fiber piece with a metal black mesh screen. It is inspired by the 13-14 GT500 as to keep some mustang heritage. They have also sent me one of, if not the first, set of all carbon fiber fender vents. A second option for the fender vents will be a carbon fiber / plastic hybrid.

Overall impressions are very good. I will get more detailed about fitment and quality after they have been ceramic coated. I had to drop them off at the detail shop and did not get to do any test fitting or mocking up. Once I do I will provide a detailed review. S550 Carbon has been really good about taking my input on changes or improvements so I have enjoyed working with Dan. For now I will leave you with these, and please post your thoughts as they will be coming to market soon.

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[Tinstar36]

Sweet pics for us when they are on the car.

tinstar36

 

[jtfx6552]

Whats the story on the ceramic coating? Is there a particular brand that one should look for? Is it anything you can do it home? I'm guessing if you are doing a clear bra, you do that first, then ceramic where the CB isn't?

 

[Zeromaz]

jtfx. Ceramic coating SHOULD be done in a proper environment. Dust free, enclosed, heat lamps, etc. Certain PPF (Paint Protection Film, or the "clear bra" you speak of) will take ceramic coating on top of it which is great because it keeps crud from building up at the edges of the PPF. However some PVC based PPF that i've seen are SOOOOO slick that it won't hold ceramic coating or anything at all for that matter. In this case you would install the ceramic coating around the PPF instead of over it. I hope this helps.

 

[mike.s]

are the point of these to save weight or just to get the carbon fiber look?

 

[50 Deep]

are the point of these to save weight or just to get the carbon fiber look?

Aesthetics. The weight savings on parts this small would be negligible, and probably not make any difference.

 

[mike.s]

i figured,just checking