jonnyc

whats up all
im just about to order my hood and rear duckbill, I dont want to have headaches abotu trying to make them fit on my car properly so im wondering what companies you guys have bought from and what experiences you have had good or bad

what im thinking as of now is Fiber images
my car is a 95 civic hatch

-Gambit-

fiber images is the best bang for the buck, you wont feel it in your pocket book if you damage that, but benen ind. makes the best quality carbon fiber.

dwnthehatch

iTrader: (1)

I have a VIS racing hood ant the quality is perfect. It fits just like the oem hood. All the edges and gaps are perfect. I have no idea if the mfg. a rear wing though.


[Modified by dwnthehatch, 5:50 AM 4/3/2002]

.paul

if you've got money.. benen ;p if you are all about jdm.. spoon.. otherwise vis or fiberimages is awseome

jonnyc

ok fiber images sounds like the way to go

is the fiber images rear duckbill the exact same as the spoon one or is it a little different ???

benen is really that much better than fiber images ?
why is that ? the look of it or the quality ??? or something else ?

Mike_C

from what i understand benen uses kevlar in their carbon fiber stuff so it's a little bendable and stronger. i may be wrong, just what i remember.

-Gambit-

yea benen is carbon kevlar so idf you hit something with it, it will bend and give somewhat, and when you hit something with carbon fiber it wont bend all so it will tend to crack

E. Honda

CF=rice, if you want real weight reduction take out your seats or go for a jog to work off those extra pounds.


[Modified by CDM SiR, 7:05 PM 4/3/2002]

-Gambit-

how do you figure carbon fiber is rice? I persoanlly think that its more rice to take out your seats

ImportechPerformance

[QUOTE]CF=rice, if you want real weight reduction take out your seats or go for a jog to work off those extra pounds.


Unless your doing other extreme weight saving things to your car, then takeing out your rear seats is just gay.
Carbon Fiber is da chit!!!

B_CRUZ!

doesn't the VIS CF hood weigh almost the same as a OEM hood?

Dorikamu

CF is rice??? haha... Mclaren F1 body is made of CF.. I suppose that's rice too, rite?

jonnyc

**** sometimes the rice thing gets a little out of context
what willbe rice next ?
b18's?
or maybe paint ?
maybe rims?

anyways i ended up ordering a superhigh technologies hood and fiber images duck bill

anyone had experiences with super high technologies ?

E. Honda

A 10 pound weight reduction is hardly a performance mod. The Mclaren F1 is all CF to save weight on the WHOLE car. Just swapping the hood for 10lbs less weight is a usesless mod IE Rice.

B_CRUZ!

way to go !
i sure would like to see your unriced ride.

PSU

iTrader: (2)

i have a fiber images hood and am planning on going with the benen duckbill.

anyone know how much the fiber images duckbill costs?

jonnyc

399
anyone heard of super high technologies ?

E. Honda

Newbie, wtf are you talking about, why am I a newbie? Come up with something better than that to prove why a CF hood isnt rice.

jonnyc

im from edmonton man whats up ?

E. Honda

Whut up Alberta!

rainmanEK

cf sticks out like sore thumb! kinda like big rims and graphics so i would also consider it RICE! ! form follows function!

jonnyc

its a statement just like anything else on the car a clean car with a cf hood looks good in my opinion

Dorikamu

reducing 10 pounds or whatever poounds from the hood is PART of the weight reduction.. and weight reduction ADDS UP.... geez..

all these pple think they are the real deal - racer.. and calling other pple rice.. just another form of wannabes, how's that different from rice...

if pple want to get a CF hood let them do it... 10 pounds is 10 pounds, if Spoon and tons of other tuner are doing it, there is a value in there you dont see...


[Modified by chusai, 5:46 PM 4/3/2002]

B_CRUZ!

RoaringTurtle

the vis hood is lighter than an oem hood
but not nearly as light as say a fiber images hood
i bought a vis and i love the quality