Hi Ste,
Ace cafe is on Monday the 28th come along if you can
With regards to painting it well ill be honest i think it would be best if you were to buy one of M3gtrs bonnets as you are looking for a bonnet that will loose you weight up front (my bonnets will by half when compaired to a stock OEM one) but Pauls bonnets might be lighter?
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All my bonnets have the indent for the badge, but if you were to paint it you would fill the void and paint over it like you would with a stock BMW one when debadging. (I know its not ideal, but this mold is very good and it would cost quite a bit of money to make another one (we can do it if you wish)
These bonnets are finished to show the carbon weave and alot of time has gone into this, so it would be a shame to cover it up with paint!
The second Generation Bonnets will come with Carbon weave on the underside too so if you were to paint it you would still be able to show some of the weave on the underside.
Thoughts?
Andrew