ElectronBlueGSR

A friend of my sister is selling an Aerogear cf hood for a very reasonable price. It's a "grade b" (which is supposed to be very high quality). He says it fits perfectly and is absolutely flawless. The edges are rolled and it uses the stock latch and doesn't require hood pins.

My question is, has anyone had experience with this brand? Are they any good? Anyone with something bad to say about this brand? Lemme know what you guys think, here's a pic:

http://www.enduromotorsports.com/bomexctr.html

JDM_Sol

I dont know anything about Aerogear CF's but GRADE "B" quality is ok....are you mainly looking for a lighter hood with good enough quality or "SHOW" quality hood?...and Grade "B" is lighter than Grade "A" but doesnt look as good...from the pic though..it looks good....try VIS though cuz i've seen there hoods personally and I like em....

viet

aerogear

-Whitey-

ive never heard of grade a or grade b but i know how to tell the quality by the # of strands per fiber 3k,6k,10k and the weave. ive seen kaminari hoods and i know those are awesome hoods for daily drivers

ElectronBlueGSR

How can you tell how many strands it has per fiber?

Hyjnx

chick ?? with CF hood ?? i wanna come live with you

SinisterCivic

I give aerogear the because two days ago i was driving down I-85 in my eg runnin bout 85 mph and next thing i know the latch on the hood breaks off and i have a c/f hood on my windshield...it busted out my sunroof too...what a piece of ****. but thats my opinion

dom93hatch

Easy there... "friend" of a chick is what he said. Haha

Can you test fit it onto your car before buying it?

ElectronBlueGSR

Wow did you have hood pins?

Yeah I'm pretty sure I can try it on before buying.

Fabrik8

There really isn't any correlation between the bundle size ("k" size) and the quality of the hood. It's all about how it's made. Everyone says that the larger the bundle count (6kx6k, 12kx12k) the better the hood, but that's really a bunch of crap. Larger weave size fabrics are cheaper per weight than smaller fabrics, and build up thickness faster, but it's all about cosmetics in this industry. Hoods are pretty non-critical peices as far as strength, etc. goes, but more layers of a smaller count fabric would be much stronger per weight than fewer layers of thicker, coarser weave fabric... Anyway, I can't begin to tell you the amount of crap that people pass off as carbon hoods and change insane prices for. Look at the construction of the underside substructure and how that is joined to the hood skin, and don't just fixate on a pretty skin. I really can't stress enough the importance of how the substructure is attached, that's will decide if your hood folds over your windshield or not. Good hoods are rare. Fiber images is pretty nice for what I've seen, and there are some others, but anything that's affordable is usually cheap crap. I don't even have one because I can't afford one that actually looks well built... I'll be building my own in the spring, it's fun and how many people can actually say they made their hood?....
Don't be fooled by judging quality by fabric type.
That was a really big tangent, sorry, but I just had to say it....


[Modified by Fabrik8, 11:38 PM 11/10/2002]

CLERIC

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I give aerogear the because two days ago i was driving down I-85 in my eg runnin bout 85 mph and next thing i know the latch on the hood breaks off and i have a c/f hood on my windshield...it busted out my sunroof too...what a piece of ****. but thats my opinion
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How did that bust your sunroof?