ok so my hood finally came in today and its got a big ******* crack in it like the shipping guys jumped up and down on it i hate life!!!!!!!!

 

hmm u musta bought a cheap hood cuz i remember seeing a hood get ran over by a car without any damage....

 

you saw carbon fiber get ran over with out ANY damage... right..

 

yea i've seen guys jump straight up and down on a cf hood w/o any dents or cracks. u musta got a cheap one.

 

sabatian i think he ment like non-painted damage, sheesh someones in a bad mood tonight...

 

i think that was for fiber images cf hoods

 

shouldnt this be in the apearance forum?

 

actually this should probably be in the members corner forum, but it doesnt matter, if he is an accord usual, it shouldnt matter, accord guys should always stick together.

-Jon

right Nick?

 

good topic

real, quality carbon fiber hoods are incredibly strong, most CF hoods have fiberglass frames built into them cause pure "spoon weave" CF is expensive

they build entire race car bodies out of cf

 

its like 500-800 right for a cf hood right?

 

about 400-500 for a pretty good hood..
fiberimage have three video of..
1)some **** dropped some rims with tires on the hood repeatly
2)some **** doing jumping jack almost..for 30 second.
3)some **** drove a car over the center of the hood.
no struture damages, no cracks, no bents just some blemish on the finish.

 

I have seen a Viper with a carbon fiber front lip and hood loose both of them to cracking at 160 mph
don't take to much into those videos, just because the hood in the video will survive it doesn't mean that each one will be that strong

and no, this topic doesn't belong here

 

i would believe the forces on a cf hood at 160mph would be alot greater than someone jumping on it.

 

cf hood=99% for show...

 

So...what kind of cf hood is it? I'm looking to get one for my EG and have heard conflicting reports on fitment, quality, weave quality, etc... but bad shipping problems? yikes..

 

why do you say that? they are a weight reduction

 

yes, indeed
but 100 cf hood sold, 99 hood will be on carpet queen.
just the situation here...(socal)

 

well thats different, thats intent, but they are functional whether they were intended to be or not

 

that was kinda my point, CF hoods supplied by most of the people we know of go on 99% show cars, that is why you can find them for cheaper than a stock hood a lot of the time. When we were racing at Lowes Motor Speedway the stock hood on the car with very tight hood pins looked like it was gonna rip right off, we were joking about what a carbon fiber hood would have done. 145 in NASCAR turn 4 when a hood pops off wouldn't be fun

a lot of the carbon fiber we see on race cars are specialty built or purpose built and cost 5 times as much

the custom carbon fiber front splitter off that Viper was close to 5 grand

 

5g for that little **** makes baby jesus cry..imo

 

the best part is that they went through 2 of them in a weekend

 

cf hood = show??????? Yeah, you know Spoon and all their "show" parts they make. By the way, the vid of are car driving over the carbon fiber hood without damage used to be on http://www.fiberimages.com , dont if it still is.

 

English...do you speak it?
READ RIGHT!!!
I said 99% of ppl buying a carbon fiber hood are going for the look/show factors.
damn spooner yo!