I take the symmetric approach. Is the rear wing cf? If so, I say go with a cf hood, but it may look odd with a black grill, so you may want to carry the cf over onto the grill too. If not, go black to match your wheels, rear wing, grill and pano roof.
Same thing with the chrome trim on the grill. Is there any other chrome trim on the car? If so, leave it on the grill. If not, delete it.

Real CF hood, yes.
CF overlayed hood, no.

You got pics? Post them up. I did the same and then ripped them off. It looked cheap.

***Real CF is better.

added red line, see how everyone thinks?

it's in my thread. take a look and tell me what you think.

iuno, but it doesn't look right to me. imho, black/silver to me would look better

I still like my idea more

without the chrome

without the chrome and the red line looks better

I vote no. CF hoods are meant to be made with louvers! if its vorsteiner type I would vote yes. but this is a CF stock hood!

I thought they were made to save weight? But now that you mention it, all of the BMW's I see with cf hoods do have louvers. I always thought that louvers were to help evacuate heat, not really anything to do with the cf construction.

true. most of the JDM CF hoods retain stock appearance.

Do it w/o the red line too (thats how I imagined it at least)

I really like how it looks with the red line and chrome strip blacked out. If you're considering CF overlay, I say skip that idea and just paint the hood gloss black instead so it matches better with your roof. Make sure to extend the red stripe to include the roof and little trunk area as well, but paint the trunk piece gloss black so it flows from front to back.

Photoshop FTW!!

that reminds me of one of the "two tone" coupe hehe

Similar, but different. You could always use a different color stripe than red. I'm thinking a grey color that's a few shades lighter than black but darker than your car. The black/silver just looks too plain IMO.

This is SICK but is missing red elsewhere, Like a time attack. If that was their the red on the hood would be justified and appealing.




Otherwise, This is sexy







ALi

powa im actually getting a cf hood for my coupe soon as well. Will be getting it in late may, i cant set up a gb for an actual cf hood because there arnt that many coupes here in toronto, so im getting mine wrapped from a guy who lives in ajax. Hes charging me $400. Msg me on MBFanatics if you want in

Wrapped CF hood FTL. That's about as useless as putting a Kompressor badge on a C320.

Im going to have mine painted gloss in the center and then black out the chrome in the grill. I post pics when its done.

If you do that, don't forget to have the top of your hatch painted the same gloss black so the theme flows front to back.

whether wrapped or just a straight cf hood, i doubt it will make much of a difference performance wise anyways, itll be like a guy who is 20 pounds heavier than me driving my car lol