The Process of Creating a Custom Hood for a Car

Creating a custom hood for a car is a complex process that requires precision and attention to detail. In this article, we will take you through the journey of creating a custom hood from scratch.

The Design Process Begins

The design process begins with brainstorming ideas and sketching out concepts. The goal is to create a hood that complements the overall aesthetic of the car while also providing a unique and personalized touch. For example, one of the designers mentioned that they wanted to try something new and different, so they started thinking about how they could add some visual interest to the hood. They experimented with different colors and materials, eventually settling on a dark brown color that would provide a rich and sophisticated look.

Adding a Flaky Effect

To take their design to the next level, the designers decided to add a flaky effect to the hood. This involved applying a special type of paint that contained glass flakes in a variety of colors, including red and silver. The goal was to create a sparkling, eye-catching effect that would make the hood stand out from the rest of the car.

The Application Process

Once the design had been finalized, it was time to start applying the paint. This involved using a ratchet tool to carefully apply the paint to the hood in thin layers. The designers worked together, with one person holding the ratchet and the other person guiding them through the application process. As they worked, they chatted and joked, enjoying the creative process.

The Finishing Touches

As the paint began to dry, the designers took a step back to assess their work. They were pleased to see that the flaky effect was starting to take shape, and they made some final adjustments as needed. Next, they added a clear coat of paint to protect the design and ensure it would last for years to come.

The Results

After several hours of hard work, the hood was finally complete. The designers stepped back to admire their handiwork, and were thrilled with the results. The dark brown color provided a rich and sophisticated look, while the flaky effect added a touch of sparkle and sophistication. They felt proud of what they had accomplished, and couldn't wait to see how the rest of the car would turn out.

The Importance of Quality Materials

As the designers worked on the hood, they emphasized the importance of using high-quality materials. They chose a carbon fiber material that was lightweight and durable, and made sure to apply it carefully to ensure a seamless finish. The result was a hood that not only looked great but also provided excellent performance.

The Hood's Fitment

When it came time to install the new hood, there were some challenges. The designers discovered that the hood didn't fit perfectly, and had to make some adjustments to get it to line up correctly. They used a combination of methods to achieve the desired fit, including adjusting the hood's angle and using adhesive to secure it in place.

The Final Result

After several weeks of work, the car was finally complete. The designers stood back to admire their handiwork, and were thrilled with the results. The new hood added a touch of sophistication and style to the car, and provided a unique and personalized touch that set it apart from other vehicles on the road.

The Importance of Collaboration

Throughout the process, collaboration played a key role in bringing the design to life. The designers worked together seamlessly, sharing ideas and expertise to create a truly unique and personalized hood. They also received valuable input from friends and family members, who provided feedback and suggestions that helped shape the final design.

The Future of Custom Car Design

As we look to the future, it's clear that custom car design will continue to play an important role in the automotive industry. With advances in technology and materials science, designers will have access to new and innovative tools and techniques that will allow them to create truly unique and personalized vehicles.

Conclusion

Creating a custom hood for a car is a complex process that requires precision, attention to detail, and creativity. From designing the concept to applying the final coat of paint, every step of the way demands expertise and dedication. By working together as a team and using high-quality materials, designers can create truly unique and personalized vehicles that set them apart from the rest. Whether you're a seasoned car enthusiast or just starting out, custom car design is an exciting and rewarding field to explore.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys chris david and alejandra here today is an interesting day because with everything going on in the world i ordered a whole bunch of parts for alejandra's miata to basically start doing the makeover start getting it going because there's the hail damage on the hood and hail damage on the trunk but finally got one thing in the mail after ordering it about a month ago yeah and it's a carbon fiber oh my god don't even say that i haven't even opened it yet could you imagine just a steel hood that's peeling paint so anyway we haven't even unboxed it yet and honestly if you're gonna change your hood up might as well go carbon might as well save the money go carbon let's open it as you can imagine parts like this for the miata come from asia and uh things are a little a little tough to get from there right now so it's a stable leaf hey we're being optimistic here so we'll see if we can get off yeah so here it is so far packaging it's done very well i'm just backing only you just gotta cut strips of it out cut kind of try and cut up this corner okay like cut up and then across alejandra's first cargill part installed i hate everything about that thing calm down should we display your uh parody of car model photos yes i'll send them in i'll send them in for sponsorship there we go we're making progress look at that wow sorry hold on let me be helpful before i admire the whole thing by the way i chose this hood basically without all 100 knowing so thank goodness she likes it oh why because of the the vents and stuff yeah okay look at that i'm gonna spin it around i was a figure skater in my previous life what do you think chris i like i like the vents do you think it's too much or no no no i think it's gonna look good once we get all the rest of the body you know like it's gonna blend in i do like this is kind of like rx8-ish it is yeah i actually dig the hell out of it so hail damage carbon fiber pop that hood pop the sizzle sizzle i always get so scared doing this why what's wrong it's hot oh no you're fine you got it lift no wait i can't find it don't get this on video no come on you're learning everybody appreciates everybody learning it's really hot it's yeah well yeah it's a boater give me that little stick right here there you go got it we're using a 10. so oh no we need to play on it it's going to disappear on us oh i'm doing it you're doing it okay well first we got to get your squirters disconnected okay good so it's not a ten so we won't lose it you the culprits i skipped the size and it was still wrong so let me tell you oh that wasn't me that was him the wrong size i'm supposed to look like a pro all right got it all right i'm doing you guys no i grab the right one it's a 14. is it on the right setting yeah but i'm loosened we all make the carpet do i do i go this way no you put lefty loosey right left this way what if i'm not strong enough to work on a car oh there you go she got the muscles now what take your hand yeah can i palm it like that like this yeah and then yeah oh i see there you go do this so fast oh i'm still slow i'm still insanely sick oh yeah you work at a body shop you do it every day when i started my 2jz project on the 240 everybody made fun of me for my lack of tool skill because i just never had it because i grew up without a family into working with tools so i was awful at it meanwhile i just taught him how to do that um i just taught him how to undo a bowl and you go ahead and reach your your hand in and take out my hand is where your hand is yep yep so i'm i'm slightly pulling up okay use that hand and pull that off i use my head too you can do that too all right so we're going to lift this off there we go look at that where am i going come to me okay put this over here so alejandra here you run no hood what is the purpose of you running no hood for the car meat that is weight reduction airflow uh 275 turbo right here from garrett um what's a 235 beefy turbo and then we got a um here's the whole clutch what are you saying these are my yeah and then i have you know she's actually more convincing than some of the like posers that i've seen do you remember the video that went viral like 10 years ago where the guy went up to somebody says oh do you have a rotary with pistons it wasn't that it was a mustang it was a mustang gtr oh yeah rotary he's like yeah yeah i got one he's like with pistons too and he's like yeah that's right i know what i'm talking about that's obviously a windshield wiper footage wait this that's brakemaster no that is my blinker fluid pull those uh wood planks up i do like how they have these though here ah stronger got it now i'm gonna support most of the hood just go ahead and insert it down into them holes got him moment of truth oh i've actually got one of your bolts over here yeah i saw what you did i was like smell it write that down jam me that ratchet like a first person shooter right now just here i'll just you got the the hood supported you got the hood supported just that i can let go okay right do i go right yep there you go now we just need to put a bunch of fake paint on her face to make it look like you know those ads with the chick with just random smudges on her face all right alejandra you want to see how it is so far all right we're just kind of checking the corners this is clear on this side yeah we're still clear over here let's see loosen them but don't go don't like crazy loosen them keep going okay good hey chris yeah how often do carbon hoods fit perfect i haven't found one yet so never oh no you're fine it's just this is common typical yeah this is i mean really really expensive carbon usually fits pretty good same with like cervini's hoods on mustangs cervini's parts really fit good there's a couple other brands that aren't as good carbon hoods let them like slam them shut really well if you push down you'll oh you'll crack it lift and either drop it or give it a okay look at that though so level it down to about here all right drop it nope nope a little bit more it's this these hoods are so light that you kind of got to like oh i see there you go i'll have to learn i mean the gap gaps it's a little bit close over here you know i mean but your gaps we could we could adjust when we go to paint the rest of it and do everything we can adjust moving those body panels because they're going to be coming out anyway yeah for it you know what i mean as a trial run it looks really nice we can adjust it and do final fitment once we get into you know repairing any chips and we're not gonna leave this this gel coat as it sits we're gonna sand this down and put some really high good uh high good we're gonna sand this down and put some high quality good clear right rather than mass produced whatever exactly well this is just gel coat so some gel coat depending on manufacturers will have some good uv stability to keep it from fading and that nasty uh you know turning yellow yeah the kevlar look yeah exactly so um and i can just tell it it's it's gel coat so we need to sand it down and get some good clear on there uh so that it doesn't fade and then we can wet sand and buff it and make it smooth as glass when we do the rest of the uh rest i see you're happy i am uh i can show you like it's like a dark brown yeah we already know we've designed the whole car really yeah and forza so i wanted to talk to you because you always have really good ideas oh this is kind of the idea chris oh yeah like a dark so it's like a brain yeah what if we did that color and we also add like a a silver or red glass flake yep over it so i wanted a flake but i wasn't sure like we can do that you just don't want to do a real heavy flake i think on this it wouldn't look as good it'll just be like bass boat but it would get that brainy wine color with like a red glass flake or a silver glass flake in this area you know like under shade stuff like that it would look a nice crimson color but you get it out in the sun and it'll just it'll it'll look a mile deep and have a super intense sparkle to it she's still holding the ratchet she's so proud i did this that's right all right what do you what do you think now that we're in the sun i'm actually very happy with it i mean for just throwing it on there yeah it overall looks very good and once we get the rest of this car it'll i really feel like that i've made the right choice on this hood i don't feel like it's too overbearing it's nice that something's happening with this car right it feels good that we did something today and now we just have to wait for everything the girls to run the body kit don't worry it's not like super hot boy or anything the body kit the pop riveted the trunk and spoiler everything yeah it's it's just been a rough start with this but once it gets going mr chris here is gonna work his magic we got it and it's gonna look gorgeous bye everyone on that note i upload every tuesday thursday and saturday and i just kicked my tripod that was scary and i'll see you guys next time take it easy have a wonderful day byehey guys chris david and alejandra here today is an interesting day because with everything going on in the world i ordered a whole bunch of parts for alejandra's miata to basically start doing the makeover start getting it going because there's the hail damage on the hood and hail damage on the trunk but finally got one thing in the mail after ordering it about a month ago yeah and it's a carbon fiber oh my god don't even say that i haven't even opened it yet could you imagine just a steel hood that's peeling paint so anyway we haven't even unboxed it yet and honestly if you're gonna change your hood up might as well go carbon might as well save the money go carbon let's open it as you can imagine parts like this for the miata come from asia and uh things are a little a little tough to get from there right now so it's a stable leaf hey we're being optimistic here so we'll see if we can get off yeah so here it is so far packaging it's done very well i'm just backing only you just gotta cut strips of it out cut kind of try and cut up this corner okay like cut up and then across alejandra's first cargill part installed i hate everything about that thing calm down should we display your uh parody of car model photos yes i'll send them in i'll send them in for sponsorship there we go we're making progress look at that wow sorry hold on let me be helpful before i admire the whole thing by the way i chose this hood basically without all 100 knowing so thank goodness she likes it oh why because of the the vents and stuff yeah okay look at that i'm gonna spin it around i was a figure skater in my previous life what do you think chris i like i like the vents do you think it's too much or no no no i think it's gonna look good once we get all the rest of the body you know like it's gonna blend in i do like this is kind of like rx8-ish it is yeah i actually dig the hell out of it so hail damage carbon fiber pop that hood pop the sizzle sizzle i always get so scared doing this why what's wrong it's hot oh no you're fine you got it lift no wait i can't find it don't get this on video no come on you're learning everybody appreciates everybody learning it's really hot it's yeah well yeah it's a boater give me that little stick right here there you go got it we're using a 10. so oh no we need to play on it it's going to disappear on us oh i'm doing it you're doing it okay well first we got to get your squirters disconnected okay good so it's not a ten so we won't lose it you the culprits i skipped the size and it was still wrong so let me tell you oh that wasn't me that was him the wrong size i'm supposed to look like a pro all right got it all right i'm doing you guys no i grab the right one it's a 14. is it on the right setting yeah but i'm loosened we all make the carpet do i do i go this way no you put lefty loosey right left this way what if i'm not strong enough to work on a car oh there you go she got the muscles now what take your hand yeah can i palm it like that like this yeah and then yeah oh i see there you go do this so fast oh i'm still slow i'm still insanely sick oh yeah you work at a body shop you do it every day when i started my 2jz project on the 240 everybody made fun of me for my lack of tool skill because i just never had it because i grew up without a family into working with tools so i was awful at it meanwhile i just taught him how to do that um i just taught him how to undo a bowl and you go ahead and reach your your hand in and take out my hand is where your hand is yep yep so i'm i'm slightly pulling up okay use that hand and pull that off i use my head too you can do that too all right so we're going to lift this off there we go look at that where am i going come to me okay put this over here so alejandra here you run no hood what is the purpose of you running no hood for the car meat that is weight reduction airflow uh 275 turbo right here from garrett um what's a 235 beefy turbo and then we got a um here's the whole clutch what are you saying these are my yeah and then i have you know she's actually more convincing than some of the like posers that i've seen do you remember the video that went viral like 10 years ago where the guy went up to somebody says oh do you have a rotary with pistons it wasn't that it was a mustang it was a mustang gtr oh yeah rotary he's like yeah yeah i got one he's like with pistons too and he's like yeah that's right i know what i'm talking about that's obviously a windshield wiper footage wait this that's brakemaster no that is my blinker fluid pull those uh wood planks up i do like how they have these though here ah stronger got it now i'm gonna support most of the hood just go ahead and insert it down into them holes got him moment of truth oh i've actually got one of your bolts over here yeah i saw what you did i was like smell it write that down jam me that ratchet like a first person shooter right now just here i'll just you got the the hood supported you got the hood supported just that i can let go okay right do i go right yep there you go now we just need to put a bunch of fake paint on her face to make it look like you know those ads with the chick with just random smudges on her face all right alejandra you want to see how it is so far all right we're just kind of checking the corners this is clear on this side yeah we're still clear over here let's see loosen them but don't go don't like crazy loosen them keep going okay good hey chris yeah how often do carbon hoods fit perfect i haven't found one yet so never oh no you're fine it's just this is common typical yeah this is i mean really really expensive carbon usually fits pretty good same with like cervini's hoods on mustangs cervini's parts really fit good there's a couple other brands that aren't as good carbon hoods let them like slam them shut really well if you push down you'll oh you'll crack it lift and either drop it or give it a okay look at that though so level it down to about here all right drop it nope nope a little bit more it's this these hoods are so light that you kind of got to like oh i see there you go i'll have to learn i mean the gap gaps it's a little bit close over here you know i mean but your gaps we could we could adjust when we go to paint the rest of it and do everything we can adjust moving those body panels because they're going to be coming out anyway yeah for it you know what i mean as a trial run it looks really nice we can adjust it and do final fitment once we get into you know repairing any chips and we're not gonna leave this this gel coat as it sits we're gonna sand this down and put some really high good uh high good we're gonna sand this down and put some high quality good clear right rather than mass produced whatever exactly well this is just gel coat so some gel coat depending on manufacturers will have some good uv stability to keep it from fading and that nasty uh you know turning yellow yeah the kevlar look yeah exactly so um and i can just tell it it's it's gel coat so we need to sand it down and get some good clear on there uh so that it doesn't fade and then we can wet sand and buff it and make it smooth as glass when we do the rest of the uh rest i see you're happy i am uh i can show you like it's like a dark brown yeah we already know we've designed the whole car really yeah and forza so i wanted to talk to you because you always have really good ideas oh this is kind of the idea chris oh yeah like a dark so it's like a brain yeah what if we did that color and we also add like a a silver or red glass flake yep over it so i wanted a flake but i wasn't sure like we can do that you just don't want to do a real heavy flake i think on this it wouldn't look as good it'll just be like bass boat but it would get that brainy wine color with like a red glass flake or a silver glass flake in this area you know like under shade stuff like that it would look a nice crimson color but you get it out in the sun and it'll just it'll it'll look a mile deep and have a super intense sparkle to it she's still holding the ratchet she's so proud i did this that's right all right what do you what do you think now that we're in the sun i'm actually very happy with it i mean for just throwing it on there yeah it overall looks very good and once we get the rest of this car it'll i really feel like that i've made the right choice on this hood i don't feel like it's too overbearing it's nice that something's happening with this car right it feels good that we did something today and now we just have to wait for everything the girls to run the body kit don't worry it's not like super hot boy or anything the body kit the pop riveted the trunk and spoiler everything yeah it's it's just been a rough start with this but once it gets going mr chris here is gonna work his magic we got it and it's gonna look gorgeous bye everyone on that note i upload every tuesday thursday and saturday and i just kicked my tripod that was scary and i'll see you guys next time take it easy have a wonderful day bye\n"