Actually, I'm trying to "fix" Wayne's hood.
The hood didn't fit when new and grew worse with time.
Further, the hood as delivered needed filling. One layer of a polyester spray-on, block sanded, followed by two layers of DuPont ChromoPremium block sanded primer.
In time, the carbon weave became visible on the top of the hood - the sides were still block sanded smooth.
Opinion is that the filling products did not shrink, but instead, the carbon weave was coming thru. Perhaps the resin used with the weave was shrinking.
Currently, there are some areas where the outermost carbon layer is separating - a few longitudinal strips approximately 1.5" wide are slightly separated - you can push them back with fingernail, however not too bad O/A.
Car was stored for 1.5 months and 200# of cement sacks were placed on each side to creep hood back. This did in fact more the hood almost 1" per side, however, when removed, hood slowly went back to historic shape.
Latest approach is to remove rear hood pins which put some longitudinal compression in and a reduction of the hood lift mechanism springs which keep a substantial constant distortion force on the hood.
If the hood is allowed to "lay down," it may...
However, I need a little advice on the best way to reduce the hood spring loads. Does anyone know how many turns those springs are wound up? If it is 2 or more, I can remove 1 or more turns to get lower load.
Also, I met Ted from Valaya Viper (misplaced his card - hope I got it right) and he said there were early carbon hoods that were ruined during shipping. They were crated green and supported around the edges. During shipping, while in truck or during transfer, they would be subjected to a lot of heat and when the crate was opened, they were warped and ruined!
While that may have caused the initial bad fit, it may even explain the continuing distortion on Bad Viper.
I have no idea how long a hood could be Green, since the amount of catalyst would control this. I am not familiar with industry standards.
Anyhow, that is my 2 cents worth.
But I sure could use some advice on those springs.