i was wondering how much less a carbon fiber hood wieghs over stock and if it would be posible to install it with 4 pins so it could be removeable which i would think would be not to hard but has anybody done it and who sells them and how much are they or is it custom thanks

 

http://www.mmrusa.com/carbonhoods.htm

has it for our car but not sure if it is cheaper anywhere else?

I know that the stock hood is pretty heavy (I had to replace mine)

 

The stock hood weighs a good 50 lbs

CF hood weighs 15 or so

 

hmmm....they seem to be just re-selling FIs hoods(at least for the 4g). I wonder if they really even have any 3g CF hoods in stock or are just BSing

 

Maxima 89-94 $625.95 I haven't called them to find out for sure but I am sure that they have them if they have them listed as a new item on their front page.

 

or they could be pulling a NOPI!!! "yeah, we list that item on our site as made for your car, but it isn't avaiable just yet for your application" good ole Nopi!!

 

I gess that is entirely possible. This was the first site that I found that says they sell a CF hood for a 3gen. Like I said I haven't called them to verify anything and have no idea if anyone here has purchaced one from them or where they got theirs from.

 

holy crap thats alot more than i thought but i guess ive never priced them and cosidering it only saves 35lb it proboly not worth it

has anybody thought about making the stock hood removable with pins i just thought it would make engine work a hole lot easier

 

no, I don't think anyone has done that. and actually if you work alone it would make engine work more difficult...there no way to put that OEM hood back on the car easily without help! but is the hood that in your way when you work on your car?? unless you are taking the motor out(through the top), IMO its not really necessary to remove the whole hood.

 

if you do that the hood will bounce around alot, the pins dont hold it down real tight.

 

ONLY 35 lbs!? lol

It's a GREAT weight savings (especially compared to other CF hoods vs. stock). However this new retail price is insanely too much, especially considering shipping is another $100. Glad I was in on the original GD.

N34JZ my pins hold my hood down super tight, although they were the biggest PITA to get them to line up, work, and connect together correctly. But once that was done whew it's great. I got those flush fitting ones with the key. What kind do you have?

 

i under stand 35lbs is a decent differnce but for 700 with shipping i could shave off alot more than a 20th of a sec with 700$

 

35lbs is pretty significant, but IMO on your average everyday street car these hoods are more for looks than weight savings...and yeah $700 is way too much!

 

I called them today confirming that they are carrying the hoods for our 3rd gens!

-Sean

 

Wow I actually found a reliable sourse

As for the looks thing, I have a stock black hood on a blue car and it only cost me 150 total to get. And Yes it is a PITA to put on even with 2 people. (I had to replace my original hood because of minor fender bender)

 

Only a $150? where did you get it? You have any pictures. I ws thinking about getting a carbon fiber hood but didn't think that anyone would carry any. Body kits are ***** to find and i've only found two or three. I have the money if it's only that much to get a hood.

 

$150 for the stock hood, not the CF . Read the fine print.

 

i'm sorry my bad. I'm a dumbass teen, work with me.

 

HEY, I will sell you my old hood for real cheap if you want it

Light blue, straight as a politician

 

 

j/k but if you're interested in a stock hood, let me know, i have a carbon fiber one that i'll be putting on and i see you're in McKinney...which isn't too far from austin!

 

j/k but if you're interested in a stock hood, let me know, i have a carbon fiber one that i'll be putting on and i see you're in McKinney...which isn't too far from austin! [/B][/QUOTE]

black hoods look cool.

Where did you get your cf from?

 

I was one of the people in on the group deal from Fiber Images

 

I have a question, if the CF hood gets chipped from daily driving (the front) can it be repaired?

 

I'n not for sure, but i would say doubtful, coarbon fiber nature is that it basically "weaved" right? if you manage to break a piece of that off you'd need to weave more carbon fiber in there, but at the same time, the Cf should not be getting damaged, but if you're really worried i woulld say use some of that 3M coating on it, when i was in Cali there was a guy who sued the coating for his ENTIRE car, a new Z06 when they first came out, the guy installing the covering says he oes a lot of peoples cars with it and it works pretty d@mn well

 

hmmm...what is this stuff?

 

scc had an article about the coating. they put it on their wrx for a while.

 

I don't really remeber too much about it, just that i THINK it's a polyurethane film, 3M makes it, but i don't think they sell it direct, you would have to track down someone who deal in that, if you talk to a high end car shop they should be able to point you in the right direction and now that i think of it, you might want to browse some corvette forums, because the guy who was getting it installed did it from the recommendation from several of the guys on one of them....

 

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