i had heard that the VIS grade A carbon fiber hoods were actually very heavy for a Carbon fiber hood....i heard its because its a rolled edge hood and because of the such high quality standards people expect from them... more a of a show off hood... if that is ture i want a cut edge carbon fiber hood... is this just some bullshit sosmone fed me or is it true?... my friend has a cut edge carbon hood and it seems to be very thin and very very light...any info can help

 

Alot of it has to do with teh Fiberglass structure. That adds alot of weight. they weight between 12-15 lbs.

 

wow. i painted and installed an aluminum hood on my friend's 90 RX-7, it only weighs 19lbs as opposed to the ~50lb steel. both of them are stock pieces, the aluminum came from a convertible though.

but.. thats neither here nor there, or muich related to this thread..

 

ya when not related in the thread leave it out its easier that way.

buy the good hood the difference in weight is about the difference of weather you eat lunch or not. like 1 or 2 pounds. buy the nice hood its def worth it!!

 

oh i didnt know it was only that little of a weight difference... in that case ill definetly go wit a nice hood

 

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i would read up on this more dude, he may be wrong and it could be like a 10 pound difference.....i would read up on this more

 

yeah ill try and find out a lil more...i just heard that the vis hoods r thicker and more clear coats of varnish or whatever it is ... tand rolled edges and all that added a lot of weight... and that the cut corner thin hoods were extremely lighter.... anyone got anymore info?

 

oem hood is 31 lbs.

sunny styling carbon hood 19 lbs.

my one off one layer fiberglass hood is 9.8 lbs.




if you want lightweight, do not go with the bling carbon. it is a waste of $.

 

freakin love that hood man

 

dude, paint that **** red, and you got more than 20 pounds of weight savings, i bet you could sell those for like 250 and make a butt-load

 

it looks awesome the way it is,but aren't clear/semi clear hood illegal

 

i like the one layer hood but u better be carefull that know one sees the motor threw that hood, that would be an instant theif attracter

 

i dont think it looks that good. id rather see it painted, but thats just my 2 cents

 

lol... you kids kill me. the car has been red for years, i was just posting a pic to illustrate how light it was.

 

lol. for kick *** ride

 

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What intrigues me is that no one ever suggests painting when someone posts a photo of his typically less functional (in terms of weight savings) C/F hood. I suppose it goes hand in hand with the fact that the first comments regarding C/F hoods are normally directed towards how they look, rather than which ones weigh the least.

The original poster appears to be a refreshing exception to this practice.

 

i would have left my hood the way it was if it wasn't for the fact ******** would come up to the car and push on the hood saying "look how thin it is..." paint weighs something, and frankly i couldn't care less about looks.

 

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LOL - I can see how that would be an issue. I have a somewhat limited knowledge of fiberglass fabrication (I've worked with it on a small scale a couple of times), but I wonder if perhaps there would be some way of adding an opaque dye to the resin without compromising the integrity of the finished product.

 

I think the main differences between something like a VIS hood and an upper-price range hood, say spoon, is what the hood is made of.

VIS has a fiberglass core that gives the hood a little more stregnth, making it heavier (around 19lbs I believe), where as something like a spoon hood is only a few layers of carbon fiber with no core support, making it much lighter.

I look at it this way:
VIS is for the street, Spoon is for the strip.

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The hardener that comes with bondo. I ran out of hardener for my fiberglass resin (had a hole in my ricer-bumper), so I needed something to harden the fiberglass resin with. I used the bondo hardener. It turned the normally translucent resin into a pinkish color.

It hardened. I don't think it hardened as fast, but it still hardened and its been holding since.

 

I've heard said that we'll really know when carbon fibre is style passe when people start painting over it.