carbon fiber hood...yay or nay?
 

Hey i was thinking about changing the stock hood to a carbon fiber one....any thoughts?

Why not?

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-6...2/DSC_0292.JPG

The scoops are functional, right? <3 the hood!

Unfortunately no :(

darn, looks awesome anyways!!

what about a black nismo though?

The one major thing you have to keep in mind when switching to a CF hood on this car is you lose the windshield wiper squirters. You will no longer have that functionality.

You may also be required to have hood pins if tracking the car.

well the hoodpins were a given but damn no more squirters? Im starting to have my doubts because the pigeons in nyc just love my car

The windshield squirters get removed and transferred as well as all three hood latches.

From having a Seibon brand I have no issues and no need for hood pins since its designed like oem.

The only thing the hood was missing was the holes to add the rubber strip at the front of the hood but no biggie

Really I talked to a rep at Seibon and he said the squirters would be gone. Please explain the transfer.

What I did was pop the driver side nozzle off and disconnected the hose then a pulled the hose from the clips leaving the hose clips still attached to the hood I then pulled off the passenger nozzle and disconnected the water coming from the reservoir and pulled the water line from the remaining hose clips leaving you with no hose thru the hose clips, The reason a left the hose clips was they were a PIA to try to remove without destroying them so when I reinstalled everything on the new hood I ordered new hose clips in the end your old hood should only have the hose clips left and that maybe a better way to go if in the event you go back stock at least the hose clips will be already there.

Trip I might need your help about installation. I just picked up the Seibon hood from 370zforme.Tranfer windshield...

No problem, Just make sure to order those hose clips so its done right or the hose is just going to be loose till they get installed.


OK BACK ON TOPIC!!

cf on black gets kinda lost. imo

just do what I did and make your own.

http://www.the370z.com/members/kelly...hood-leave.jpg

if its not varis then no...

Dammit wish I would have know this 6 months ago. Been driving around with no squirters :( Great info man!

Get it painted and it could look good!

That is true but I will enjoy my carbon for now.
http://www.the370z.com/members/super...gt-r-hood.html

:iagree:

I have been eyeballing this one........HD0910NS370-VSII/

That makes two of us. :yum:

I'm trying to decide how that would look. Are there any pictures of it on a car?

I haven't seen any, but I am looking at it for cooling purposes more so that asthetics. I am hoping to get additional airflow through the engine bay by allowing the warm air from the IC/Rad/OC to escape through the center vent................

Either way, I am going to have it painted to match the car. Maybe keep the center section CF, but not sure yet.

I'd love to see a picture of the VSII hood installed.. Definitely my favorite hood