Alright, I admit. I have no idea why a carbon fiber hood is a good thing. Especially if it looks like the stock hood. Why change? I would appreciate any info.

 

The hood probably weighs 200 + lbs. a carbon fiber hood would have similar structural strength as well as weigh in under 50 lbs. Lose weight is the main advantage.

 

carbon fiber looks hot and weighs half

 

Thanks. But how does it look differently? Is it only one color or can it be painted?

 

it can be painted..but the black cf look is great

 

exactly, carbon fiber has a unique pattern to it which can't be touched by any paint job. Ferrari race cars are often carbon fiber painted red but even they would look better naked.

 

mmmm nacked ferari all carbon fiber car nice

 

hoods don't weigh 200+ lbs
a quality cf hood shouldn't be much over 10lbs
cf hoods aren't structural..they also shatter on impact unlike steel or aluminum hoods
and cf is paintable.

 

cf shatters on impact. damn..that sucks for mclaren f1s..those things are completely cf

 

i posted this before...i'm not gonna look
everyone uses cf as a generic term...there's different weaves blends, types..whatever you want to call it.

nm..i found it
http://forums.i-club.com/forums/show...t=carbon+fiber

this explains stuff better than i can..

 

what about kevlar nice shade of yellow ( for us yellow oz owners) hehe but i have to agree naked cf is hot, but i like the modern images CF hood very dope i'd like to see a kevlar 1....

 

CF hoods look super hot on black cars, espiacially when theres also a carbon fiber spoiler in the back.

 

god. i don't knw how people can think black carbon fiber hoods add to a cars appeal, especially if it's some randomly colored car.
like wierd civics and **** in town with their fugly black as night hoods that they obviously don't need cause they're still gonna run 14's
it's such a waste of money IMHO. if you're going purely for looks and you've done all the other obvious things like rims and stuff, maybe you'd want to do cf, out of lack of anything better to do... but to me, carbon fiber on a car still runnin 14+ is like addin altezas... money should go somewhere else.

 

i had a carbon fiber hood on my 97 accord b4 i got my lancer yesterday, the stock hood prolly wieghed about 75lbs while the carbon fiber hood prolly weighed about 12lbs...big wieght savings and looks tight, the lancer is the first car i will have owned i am going to leave mainly stock, the only mod i plan doing is injen cai.L8S

 

would you still be able to see the carbon fibre weave even though it's painted?