The original T59 uses a lot of cooling louvers on the front end of the engine hood. Making that out of carbon fiber would be extremely laborious. I could use my Ender 3 Pro 3D printer to print male plugs that I could glue onto my foam core when creating the engine hood. This will be a bot tricky to keep the carbon fiber weave from having a great deal of distortion. If I kept the louver profile very low, it could work. If I did not cut out the louver holes that would also be a great time saver. Cutting out and finish sanding every single louver would be a horrendous job.
Another method would to simply print out black louvers and glue them on top of the outer skin, but I fear that might look real cheap. I could also build a jig to punch louvers into strips of metal, paint them black, and work the weave around the entire metal strip. That too would not look very good.
Another option I am leaning heavily towards is printing out rows of louvers with the underside cutout already built in. After I skin the bonnet, I’ll simply cut out a rectangular hole in the carbon fiber to allow inserting the block printed row of louvers. I should be able to flox and gaps and then five the entire bonnet and lovers several coats of clear coat that will hopefully give it all a unified and purposeful appearance. From the My Tech Fun YouTube channel temperature testing, it’s clear I will need to use either ABS, ASA or nylon filament. ASA is the easiest of these three materials to print so that is probably the best choice.
Using a hat bug net, you can use the hexagonal pattern from the net and an air brush to create a carbon fiber look. Watch this YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nspl-vhg3MQ