I don't Think VIS puts a good clear over their hoods because I have two buddies that bought VIS hoods (one on a 96 rs and one on an 04 evo), and they both had problems with the clear fading and cracking. And I know the guy with the evo maintained his hood like he was supposed to and he still had problems with it. When he contacted VIS about their defective quality hood, they didnt want to do anything about it and they were real jack asses over the phone, so he was just like fuck it. And neither one of these cars had heat problems to contribute to the crackin/fading, since the eclipse was non turbo and the evo was stock.
I'm going to be buying a carbon hood for both my eg civic and my turbo eclipse. I probably wont buy a VIS one though. But for the eclipse I'm going to line the entire underside of the hood with dynamat dynaliner to keep the heat off the hood to prolong the finish.