Anyone out there with some pics of the fitment and finish of this hood?

Show your pics!

 

 

 

Cheston's Max

 

Ahhhh its the Evil Don, they guy that gets more post wondering where he is at, I tell them you are in Houston but people still ask. Man you have some people that reallly care about you. Not even my family ask me where I am at?

 

Check out fiberimages.com for pics...

Hey, Don, can you take 20 seconds and tell me where you got your heavy-duty half-shafts...? Whatever info you can provide will be appreciated. Thank you.

 

 

errrr???

 

jeez i hope thats a picture quality issue...
cuz that hood looks WAAAAAVY AS HELL...
Anyone got a surfboard?!

I had a Fiber Images CF hood on my civic...
and it was straight as an arrow...

 

My hood is not wavy its perfect.

 

http://pak01.pictures.aol.com/NASApp...=1002339212239

 

tilly, who did u pay to cut holes for the nozzles?

 

I did it myself

 

my cf hood is SO FAR from perfect, its not even funny

tilly, you file the grille like the rest of us?

 

I remember seeing some fiber images hoods (not for a maxima) and I really wasn't impressed with the quality. The edges were rough, the hoods looked wavy, and it looked like it was made in a garage. Compared to a Kaminari hood, it sucked. But the Honda guys swear they're wonderful, so maybe it's just the smaller niche markets that they don't worry about the quality. The hoods I saw were for a G20 and a Camry.

 

No what did you have to file I just had to adjust the latch.

 

They were made in a garage. I was there. Customer service is pathetic even when you're there. I waited for like 45 min when all someone had to do was go pull it off the carton thing.

 

I had to file my grille to get it to fit. I made sure I had to do this before i did it (put the hood on w/o mounting, just dropped on.) When it fits into the latch, the rear sticks out too far to be bolted on.

Go compare the latches .. your stock one is about 1in, the FI one is about 1.5in ..

 

mmm doesnt sound too interesting to spend $400 whatever for a hood that doesnt fit perfect. How much weight does it shave again?

 

Hey guys, I've said this before and I'll say it again...my friend owns BodyKits Northwest. If I can get enough serious interest, I'm sure he will make us a CF hood. I inquired about it a few months ago and he said sure. For anyone who knows him, he gets some of his hoods from FI, but I'm sure he will have one built for us - his are much better quality.

I'll find out tomorrow.
Casey

 

this guy Fred that i know has one on his Green 96. It looks pretty sweet in person, but the fittment was kinda bad. One side had small gaps running along the side and the other didnt. I guess it needed to be adjusted. Weight wise the thing feels like a feather compared to stock, its crazy! also where the hood meets the SMX grille there was almost 1/2" gap so he had to use black rubber door molding to fill that gap.

But overall id give the hood a 5 out of 10

 

I'm in the market for one, so it's either fiberimage or whatever that's available. Count me in if Bodykits northwest can make one better than fiberimage. YOu can't reuse the OEM hood struts with fiberimage. If Bodykits Northwest can, I'll buy theirs.

 

It shaves off 30+ lbs, last I heard

 

that it does my friend

 

I think it was:

42lbs = stock
16lbs = CF

so thats about 26lbs, WOW!!!!

 

exactly.

mine also doesnt fit evenly. one side has huge *** fender gap, the other has uneven (wide to narrow) fender gap.

as you know by now, theyre near impossible to get a hold of.

i also found more problems with my hood yesterday. gonna be a lot of pics i need to take.