Vented Carbon Fiber hoods

Gauge

Before you buy a CF hood, understand that many companies (I think Seibon does this) use fiberglass filling to reduce cost.

If the look is what you want, go for it. In fact I would recommend it. But if you are concerned about performance (every pound on your car matters), I would be careful and find a place that uses only CF in their stuff.

That vented hood looks sick. Wish I was good enough to make that big of a mold. Can you take a pic of the underside of it?

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Jasonle

Hey guys yeah i bought this for looks.. not sure bout the weight.. this feels little heavy? Man the vents are huge on this hood. I'm out of town this week in Dallas. Ill get some more pictures when i get back!

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love the wheels, what brand , size, offset , are they ? thanks

SgtGoldy

whos this question for? Me on my previous post?

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red6spd

I would love to put a CF vented hood on my Z but I need proof that the hood is lighter then the stock one.

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martin82

Any cf hood laid wet will not be lighter than the stock hood, only reason I added the vented hood is to release engine heat at the track, if I wanted to drop weight then you have to go with a dry cf hood it was just too much money.......

Gauge

I'm hesitant to say you are wrong, but I think you may be wrong. It doesn't matter if you use dry carbon fiber or wet lay. If you use resin infusion (vacuum bag to pull resin) you will end up with near the same result. Dry will be slightly better, I want to pull attention to the word SLIGHTLY. Unless you are doing 24 hour le mans, you won't need the weight difference between a good resin infusion wet lay and dry CF. To the quoted posters benefit, there is a lot of shitty wet lay carbon fiber stuff out there(supposedly, I don't know this from experience).

Also I'm almost certain a pure CF hood is lighter than the stock hood. Otherwise, why do all RC's use CF? The CF/FG hybrid is probably NOT lighter than the original hood. Same with CF/Kevlar hybrid. But pure CF should be, substantially so.

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martin82

my statement is for hoods such as Seibon, VIS etc for their wet hoods...... which most people in the forums would buy and not pay 2-4 times more for a dry hood......., pretty much regular aftermarket hoods that you search online are not pure CF hoods.. hence why I said pretty much any wet hood vs dry hood will be heavier to a regular consumers like us............

Gauge

I can agree to that statement. Just making sure it was clarified

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martin82

lol

anhdat503

i will get one Vented Carbon Fiber hoods on it week

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MJB

If anybody cares, I email Seibon awhile back on the weight of the TS hood. Its 21lbs.... stock is 16lbs.

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theDreamer

Daaaamn...I was expecting the hood to be maybe 17-18lbs but not 21. Not a huge increase but still a lot if you are trying to save weight or at least keep it equal. It is tough though with our hood being all aluminum and being 16lbs already. You either go dry CF or modify the stock hood.

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