Carbon Fiber Nightmare and SEIBON Carbon

iceman21_23

are you sure u ordered a 370z hood, and not mistakenly ordered a 350z hood? because i believe the sebion hoods aren't out yet officially

RedComet

Thats Seibon quality for you.

SOLISIMO

Any hood you buy will have fitment issues. The seibon fitment is 95%-98% on the G37 and expect the same for your car.

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Z1Performance

That is so far from the truth it's not even funny

I stopped selling Seibon outright because I got tired of the fitment issues, and I got tired of them not working with us when packages arrived to customers damaged that they shipped. They are the only hood manufacturer we dealt with that ever had such issues. I decided to stick exclusively to those manufacturers that I didn't have to worry about hood fitment issues, and it has worked out splendidly. They are more expensive, and we don't sell as many hoods as we used to, but I don't care. I'd rather sell 1/4 the # of hoods and know that each one that goes out the door is perfect. It will be the same for us with this car. If no firm I trust releases a hood, then we won't sell hoods, simple as that.

SOLISIMO

By fitment issues Im not talking about having to trim or anything like that, what I mean is something like adjusting the hood to get the right height for it to sit flush etc....

Now the seibon hood is off and Im already prepared to be dealing with that lol....

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SOLISIMO

+1000

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Togo

^+1! -I also wouldn't put it past someone to sell the wrong product labeled as a 370 hood on eBay not really caring or realizing they aren't the same hoods.

To the OP. Don't give up modding all together man but from now on I'd definitely consult some of the vendors here for your purchases. I can't say we have bum vendors here that would send you poor quality products with fitment issues etc. Some of the vendors here have already shown customer service that is considered to be "above and beyond" the norm.

Happy modding

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JB-370z

I bet thats what happened. Seibon is not the greatest but hell not this bad. My experience with them on my old rsx-s was not that great but after 80 bucks to a body shop the holes I needed were created and window washer were mounted and everything lined up nice. Sorry to hear about this.

motoextreme

Definitely a 370 hood. Not trying to be a pain, I really don't mind some mods, like I said, owned a good size bike shop a while back. Built Carbon GSXR's, Duc's and MV's until my hands had blisters on them.

I'm ok with some mods but this is just a bit silly. It just cracks me up that you would spends hours getting this weave perfect and the edges finished yet when your drilling the holes for the mounts they are not even close. I may just plug the wiper sprayers since I dont need them in CA anyway, buy new plugs and a tube of weather strip sealer.

I'm a little cooler now, pretty PO'd last night. If no one wants it off the classified in the next day or so I'll start working on it, I have every tool known to man, just dont feel like F'ing with it.

Besides, you know how carbon is...cool to look at but not like I'll gain 20 HP or anything. Love this car, want to keep fixing it up... Wife wants me to get another street bike to fix up but already had them all and kind of tired of that scene after my shop shut down.

Thanks again, appreciate the feedback.

motoextreme

I like JB's comments, think I'll just hit up a bodyshop. Neighbor owns 6 of them so I'm sure he can hook it up! I was thinking about running some a thick black stripe down the center where the ridges are and narrowing it at the front, then maybe blacking out the rims and making the hood match the silver with just a tad of carbon exposed.

Any thoughts on the above. I already dropped about $4K into the system and its sweet, all hidden in the spare area so clean as can be. Exhaust and intake is done, ordered some carbon badges but think I may just have them filled and painted now. Anyone seen a Z with this sort of stripe? Went through the whole PS area but nothing like this (some cool concepts though).

PS. Pretty much stick with the board members thus far but regret not using them for the hood....oh well, that's what I get for buying off instinct.