help image based lighting

using maya 8.5
I have a yellow car hood, when I create an IBL node it does not have any color but still reflects
I don't have emit light turned on on IBL node because the rendering is far too long and the light is too intense.
I don't have emit photons because the rendering is too long
In the rendering options I use Causting and not Final Gather because the colors don't look right.
I read all the info I could find
many f the tutorials are for alder versions and it changed quite a bit
so if any one uses it could you tell me ow you do it
I will try it and show you the results