okay i searched but it all came up as in the classified...anyways lets get to the point...does anyone know or have a chart of some sort of a weight list of 92-95 civic OEM hood weight compare to the cf hood with brand such as vis, fiber image. etc.....i would like to see which is the lightest cf hood and their quality....

 

My cf hood weighs maybe 5 lbs.

 

dammm........how does it go when u drive like 80 mph or +....flop around alot? u cut the bottom of the hood didn't ya? pic? wut brand cf hood do you have?

 

i think thats why they invented hood pins

 

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It did, and still does slightly which is why I have hood pins. It's a single layer of CF w/ a bare bones fiberglass support structure. You can see the sun through the hood from underneath. It's light as hell. I am not positive on the brand b/c I think I am the 3rd or 4th owner......

 

Drop of about 14lbs for most $400 hoods. It's cheaper and better to get a lightweight battery instead.

 

has anyone weigh there hood (what brand?)? this will help people like me who doesn't know the differences.

 

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i HIGHLY doubt that info. in fact, i would put $ on it that it does not.

the following weights were taken by me on a load cell scale

oem hood (painted r-81 red with squirters) 31.4 lbs
generic cf hood 20.8 lbs (if i am not mistaken, it was the old sunny styling)
super lightweight 1 layer fiberglass hood was 11.0 lbs even.

attached is a pic of the hood before it was painted. the lightest hood i could possibly find, still retaining an underhood skelotol (sp?) structure. it was see through it was soo thin. it is a generic hood, although i have heard a few claims from a manufaturer that their hood have similiar weight. my particular hood was a one off custom.



*edit, found better pics


Modified by rodney at 11:34 PM 12/17/2004

 

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i HIGHLY doubt that info. in fact, i would put $ on it that it does not.

the following weights were taken by me on a load cell scale

oem hood (painted r-91 red with squirters) 31.4 lbs
generic cf hood 20.8 lbs (if i am not mistaken, it was the old sunny styling)
super lightweight 1 layer fiberglass hood was 11.0 lbs even.

attached is a pic of the hood before it was painted. the lightest hood i could possibly find, still retaining an underhood skelotal structure

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I am just guessing. It feels like it weighs much less than a 10lb dumb bell; but the size/shape plays a major role in that, and I would venture to guess that my weighing skills are as accurate as my butt dyno is . But, the skeltal structure isn't much, and you can easily see sun light through the single layer of CF.

 

I'll have to agree with Rodney on this one. There is no way your CF hood weighs 5 lbs unless it's a thin sheet of CF with no skeleton at all.

And btw, here is a gem by Rodney about how to really lose some weight up front.
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=695215

 

That hood is awesome rodney! as are the front fenders!

 

i've seen a one ply dry carbon hood before...insane light. idunno about 5 lbs. but it had to be 10lbs max.

but most cf hoods are about 25 lbs i'd guess

 

you should prove him wrong and somehow weigh the hood with pic.

 

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cool by me. if i could save an addition 6 lbs, i will be all over it.

 

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Hey, he seems to know WAY more then me. i was just guessing, but as I already said in a previous post, my weighing skillz aren't that great w/o a scale . I will bow out, and say that he is right on this one.

 

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but most cf hoods are about 25 lbs i'd guess </TD></TR></TABLE>

Yea most cf hood weights about 25-30 lbs. No way in hell your cf hood weights 5 lb. My fiberglass hood weight 14 lb with packaging and this is without interstructure.

 

your fenders have teeth

 

cf hoods are usually around half the weight of an oem hood.

 

I'm going to have to second the motion:

buy a braille auto racing battery - it's about the same weight loss (maybe even a little more), for $150.

Or, but both ;o)

- Nathan

 

question, does fiber image hood need hood pins? cuz for some reason my friend's hood won't shut lock when u shut the hood........

 

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same here but mine works fine

 

anyone expericence this?

 

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did he adjust the hood latch?

 

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well, in my particular case, the hood was so thin that when latched, it would "twist" the hood. no matter how much i adjusted the latch, including opening the adjustment holes up, i could not stop the hood from twisting and throwing the alignment off when latched. so, i just removed the latch entirely and run just hood pins. safer that way anywhom.

 

Man Rodney I love the look of the wide fenders up front!