Carbon Fiber Hood

[NCspecV81]

Anyone have one? Any regrets? Any fitment issues? And did you hood latches?

[Putin 2.3T]

@MileHigh303; CF hood questions

[MileHigh303]

No hood latches. Mine fit fucking perfect and sits flush. It came with a mesh grill for the hood scoop as well. Here are some pics. I paid a bit more for mine and went with a seibon but I know VIS and some others make a cheaper one but I've been hearing they have fitment issues etc.

[NCspecV81]

How much you pay? Thinking about getting one versus fixing my current hood

[MileHigh303]

Originally Posted by NCspecV81 How much you pay? Thinking about getting one versus fixing my current hood

I paid 770 for the cf hood. I think the other brands are about 450 or 550. The oem if you do get a truly oem hood i think for me was estimated to be over 900 so I just had the body shop do a cf hood instead and they promised to pay for it and woot never paid for it so yeah that's the story of my life. We had a shitty hail storm that banged her up real nice haha

[NCspecV81]

Yeah hoods are pricey. The scoop actually costs more from where I was pricing the damage

[MileHigh303]

Originally Posted by NCspecV81 Yeah hoods are pricey. The scoop actually costs more from where I was pricing the damage

You will be as rice as I am if you get the cf hood bahahaha

[Putin 2.3T]

Why not just wrap it?

[MileHigh303]

Originally Posted by Putin 2.3T Why not just wrap it?

CF weight reduction FTW

[NCspecV81]

Originally Posted by Putin 2.3T Why not just wrap it?

because my hood is burnt on both sides along with the plastic and hood liner.

[chaser27]

If your stock hood still has the same shape, you can use it as a mold and make your own. I've been wanting to play with carbon fiber.

Cheapest supplies I found are here:

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[evanreynolds1116]

Originally Posted by MileHigh303 No hood latches. Mine fit fucking perfect and sits flush. It came with a mesh grill for the hood scoop as well. Here are some pics. I paid a bit more for mine and went with a seibon but I know VIS and some others make a cheaper one but I've been hearing they have fitment issues etc.

What front lip is that and where did you get it ?? Car looks SICK.

[MileHigh303]

Originally Posted by evanreynolds1116 What front lip is that and where did you get it ?? Car looks SICK.

It's just a s204 sti lip off eBay for like 50 bucks

[NCspecV81]

got mine now. I installed the front rubber seal to seal the hood to the bumper. I used emblem tape. I may switch it to a thinner piece of double sided tape. In this picture you can see I did not have the seal on at the time. Now that I do it seals up the bumper.

[liljae8]

Looks really good! I may do this in the future. I have a CWP too.

[NCspecV81]

Here's profile

[Chinchilla Dakilla]

Damn these pics are giving e wood! I have a white MS3 and seeing those pics makes me want one bad!!!

I just need to first focus on not being stock anymore !

[liljae8]

Originally Posted by NCspecV81 Here's profile

Looks good. Might look even better with the roof vinyled with carbon fiber or just gloss black, like mine. lol Looks really good!

[NCspecV81]

Yeah that's the next mod. I was hoping I could do the gloss black before ENM but it's not lookin' good

[aackthpt]

Originally Posted by NCspecV81 Here's profile

Car needs CF wing badly. And rear CF emblem inserts.

Roof wrap would look good but I don't advocate wrapping to look like something else, on principle. Sounds like you're doing gloss black... that should look awesome. In fact you should photoshop it, shouldn't be too difficult to get an idea what it will look like.

[NCspecV81]

Originally Posted by aackthpt Car needs CF wing badly. And rear CF emblem inserts. Roof wrap would look good but I don't advocate wrapping to look like something else, on principle. Sounds like you're doing gloss black... that should look awesome. In fact you should photoshop it, shouldn't be too difficult to get an idea what it will look like.

Good Idea. I'll flex my noob PS skills and see how she looks.

[doctavus]

I agree, would look great with a CF wing. Looks good nonetheless!

I hate black more and more since owning one except when it's freshly washed/waxed.

[Lbspeed]

Originally Posted by NCspecV81 Good Idea. I'll flex my noob PS skills and see how she looks.

If you or someone else did a cf wrap it would be perfect to just get exta cf wrap and then wrap your spoiler, roof, etc. at the same time if you wanted to.

Can you try to photoshop cf roof as well as gloss black?

edit: anyone know the weight savings with the seibon hood, if any?

[NCspecV81]

Originally Posted by Lbspeed If you or someone else did a cf wrap it would be perfect to just get exta cf wrap and then wrap your spoiler, roof, etc. at the same time if you wanted to. Can you try to photoshop cf roof as well as gloss black? edit: anyone know the weight savings with the seibon hood, if any?

It felt around half the weight of the stock hood. It was noticeably lighter. Its so much lighter the CS hood struts will actually balance the hood half-open.

[NCspecV81]

@MileHigh303; did you transfer your tmic ducting and heat shielding?

[InkedInspector]

Thank to a local body shop fucking my hood up, I'll be grabbing one of these soon as well. But I was wondering, since y'all have them, are you concerned about the note from Seibon saying not to use you stock Hood prop or aftermarket struts to support the hood? Some little foot notes in all the places I can find to buy one basically saying that the stress from them can crack the carbon fiber because they are designed to hold up much more weight.

[chaser27]

Originally Posted by InkedInspector Thank to a local body shop fucking my hood up, I'll be grabbing one of these soon as well. But I was wondering, since y'all have them, are you concerned about the note from Seibon saying not to use you stock Hood prop or aftermarket struts to support the hood? Some little foot notes in all the places I can find to buy one basically saying that the stress from them can crack the carbon fiber because they are designed to hold up much more weight.

I don't see why you couldn't use the stock hood prop, unless they don't have the hole for it.

If you already have aftermarket hood struts, I'd just exchange the struts for some lighter ones at autozone.

[NCspecV81]

Originally Posted by InkedInspector Thank to a local body shop fucking my hood up, I'll be grabbing one of these soon as well. But I was wondering, since y'all have them, are you concerned about the note from Seibon saying not to use you stock Hood prop or aftermarket struts to support the hood? Some little foot notes in all the places I can find to buy one basically saying that the stress from them can crack the carbon fiber because they are designed to hold up much more weight.

I didn't see that note. How on earth do you keep the hood propped if you can't use either the hood prop or the cs hood struts?

Only note I saw was "hood pins required"

[InkedInspector]

Originally Posted by NCspecV81 I didn't see that note. How on earth do you keep the hood propped if you can't use either the hood prop or the cs hood struts? Only note I saw was "hood pins required"

That is exactly what I thought.

"Factory hood struts or aftermarket hood dampeners should not be used with this hood. They are not designed for the lighter and crackable carbon fiber hood but rather for the sturdy metal factory hood. User is responsible on figuring out an alternate method to prop hood."

[NCspecV81]

well mine is working just fine now. I can definitely tell the struts are much stronger than required for the hood weight. I close it slowly and more uniformly now anyways. I don't just grab latch and yank down. When the time comes I may just replace the struts with lower strength variants.

Originally Posted by chaser27 I don't see why you couldn't use the stock hood prop, unless they don't have the hole for it. If you already have aftermarket hood struts, I'd just exchange the struts for some lighter ones at autozone.

There's a hole for the rod it even has the factory "ROD ->" relief.

[H1LLB1LLY]

Digging up an old thread.. oh well...

Idk if you still have it but, the Corksport hood scoop would look great. Along with CF spoiler. The roof might be too much tho.

[adamizme]

Originally Posted by H1LLB1LLY Digging up an old thread.. oh well... Idk if you still have it but, the Corksport hood scoop would look great. Along with CF spoiler. The roof might be too much tho.

That was a pretty useless reason to bring up an old-ish thread.

While I'm here, I might as well share. I had some hood damage last year, so I picked up a ViS hood for what I thought was a good deal. It fit pretty well. It had all of the spots marked, but I had to drill out all of the holes for clips and weather stripping.


It flaps around quite a bit on the track, especially over 120 mph or so. I didn't think much of it until this happened.


I finished up my track day looking like this... :/


So the OEM hood scoop made a comeback...


It has now made it through more than half a dozen track days with no issues. The more I think about it, the more I think I'm going to paint it soon. The stealth/sleeper look is pretty appealing... although it is pretty subtle in the right light...

[sheston]

Need someone to post up the weight difference between these and the stock ones. Tease us.....

[SpeedyTurd]

Anyone actually know the weight of these Carbon fiber Hoods. VIS or Seibon? Seems like no one really posted weight. I think one place had it for a gen won, but not anyspecs for both companies