Ok, here is the straight facts on hoods.
I train people to adjust car wrecks for a living, so I might know a few things about designed in crush zones, and parts on a car.
All hoods on newer cars are designed to fold up in the middle so they do not create a hazard to the passengers. As an industry standard, if the hood is compromised in a crush or fold point, it must be replaced. Any repairs to a hood crush zone can be fatal on the next impact. (You know if an insurance company is willing to pay for it, there has to be a reason
They don't want to be sued for the death of some passenger who is beheaded by a repaired hood.)
If the hood does not have that design to fold up on impact, they will shear off the hinge pins, and cut right through the windshield glass and have beheaded occupants before. Look closely at your hinges and hood. They are designed to catch the hood even if the pins are sheared in two. Your stock hood has fold points on the underside frame that look like dimples, or holes in the metal.
If Duane and CFX does not have a designed in fold point in the hood, and retain the catch point on the hinge, his hood could kill you in an accident.
It will not matter if the hood is CF, Kevlar, Fiberglass or alluminum. Any flat non-folding hood will cut through the glass windshield like a knife into butter. (And you as the passenger are next in line.)
I think CF hoods are as cool as the next guy, but I would not run one unless it was securely fastened to the hinges, retained the stock catch design, and had some attempt at a built in fold point for the hood to break and fold up harmelessly outside my front windshield.
