i just dropped off my hood yesterday at a fabrication shop called KBD in Brea, CA.
it's not a publically well known company like VIS, but they do alot of work for SEMA show cars(including polyurethane bodykits) and APC(the orange Tiburon's hood was made by this shop).
as far as the quality of the hoods, it is second to none. i saw many cf hoods there at the shop(including one for Porsche Boxster, it was amazingly clean. no spots, no streaks, just clean and perfect.
this project will take about 2 1/2 weeks(so we're looking at the completion day around first week of December) to fabricate the carbon fiber hood.

once my hood is complete, i'll be taking orders for the hood. pricing hasn't been determined yet, but it'll be in the range of the VIS hoods.

since i won't have the pictures of our hood for next few weeks, i'll just take some pictures of other hoods made by KBD and post it up here.

 

Would I be able to get a blue/black carbon hood.

 

they will be able to offer Carbon Kevlar hoods with color for about $120 more. i don't know if they'll be able to produce color carbon fiber hoods. but i'll ask!

like i said, my hood just got dropped off yesterday and everything is still in the drawing board.

 

Driving without a hood on?

 

Better air flow.

 

well..i did have to drive my car down last 'night' without my hood on my car...i did some research before this and driving without a hood isn't actually illegal..hehe...
my car was running sooo great last night..sooo much cold air...this is the Ultimate Cold Air Intake for my car!!

no, my car's grounded for next two weeks. or until i get my stock hood back.

 

sounds good

 

u bet!

 

Count me in once you get a price!

 

will do.

 

I guess it doesn't matter I just want a quality hood.

 

See what they can do for fenders. I need CF fenders. thanks for any help.

 

Check out my Sig for Pic of the VIS Hood

 

How much did yours go for? including shipping? How long does it take to put a new hood on and to get it lined up, etc?

 

damn! your homepage has like million pop-ups!!!

 

who needs hoods?

i bet i can bring a new trend to the street races/tracks...NO HOOD CAI

 

no kidding......yo pcguru2k, i dont see any pic in your sig

 

hehe...

i know...hope he's not the one making money off the pop-up ads!

 

I guess they disabled all the sigs for bandwidth.. But you can check it out in the recently trip us NE guys went to Island Dragway..

http://www.pbase.com/pcguru2k/island_dragway_-_112402

 

looks good..

 

i loooooooooove sleepers...
NOS MMMMMMMMMMM

 

he has 2 bottles...he's going to spray twice as long than me

 

He was running 125 shot...

 

i was too... but just one bottle. having two just make the fun twice as long

 

IF this happens YOU SHOULD HAVE THEM MAKE a 1.5"-2.5" cowl induction hood.

I don't think the OEM style is really worth the $$$$, since I would have to paint it and the invader looks a little to agressive. However, a mild/medium cowl would be schweeeeeeeet!

 

http://www.pbase.com/image/7936144
i dont think it looks right on a sterling mist...now i wanna see it on a pearl white anybody have pics of CF on white car? or can anybody photoshop it?

 

 

Yeah I know... I had my comp doing a bunch of stuff at that time I clicked the link to his homepage and my comp crashed!!

 

I have the OEM CFH on my pearl white..hehe I just installed Today and only cost me $$385.. It was perfect..no spot, no gap, no hood pins..
I'll post the pics tomorrow night..

 

Very rough photoshop of CF hood on white max, also took the hood pins out.. you get the idea:

 

how many of you guys would actually keep the hood unpainted like that?

 

I think the grille throws the look off.

 

that CF hood would look dope on a gray luster....

 

Are you gonna tell them to design any variations on it or is it gonna be a plain one like what Kev has? When I say variations I mean like the invader or crusader style (or whatever its called) or let them put a scoop in it or something? It would be cool to have choices.

Deac

 

no hood pins, eh? well...i wouldn't advise that..


so far, it's just the regular OEM style hoods..i'm not a big fan of 'invader' style hoods..now that's a little to much..but something like a WRX style scoop could be cool...i haven't asked the shop yet about this. i'm actually going to go up there today, and i'll ask what else can be done with this project.

 

i ain't painting my hood.

 

yeah...i think that grill kinda throws it off..

 

What about with a black maxima, since mine is black, I'd be interested to see what a CFH would look like on it. I'm still interetsed, keep us posted on the price!

 

Oh about the Hood Pins.. I respect to your opinion about me not having Hood pins... but Maybe I should huh??? Also how come some people said they gonna paint the CFH???
Wells hoon hyung u know I usually listen to your comment.So let me know...what i should do...

 

I wouldn't drive the car past 80 on a windy day without my pins.. The hood even with moving that hood latch all the way up, the cfh hood barely catches the latch to close. The hood pojns def. add a piece of mind that it's not gonna pop up on you..