What about modding the stock hood, with some cutouts/inserts?
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05-13-2013, 12:46 PM | #32 (permalink) |
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Same car and same stock hood in both pics, Doc had it done with six inserts then down to four later on.
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IMHO i think carbon fiber hoods are a waste of money besides this guy^ they dont shave any weight off at all they actually add weight, when it gets hot out they warp and when you open the hood, when you go to close it it closes like crap or youll have trouble actually getting it to close i know from when i had one on my eclipse it was horrible worst thing i could have ever done and my friend with his twin turbo 350 same thing and his is yellow and nasty looking he totally regrets buying it. again this is my opinion id rather keep the stock hood its much lighter and keeps the z looking clean
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Im glad it's painted to avoid the whole yellowing thing. Warping is another story, any advice on how to keep it from doing that? I've never heard of anyone having that problem, but it seems totally plausible and likely.
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I bet the hood on the G37 is steel, like the driveshaft, and ours is CF
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05-28-2013, 03:34 AM | #40 (permalink) |
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If its not the weight saving you're going for specifically, then what about fibreglass? Don't most of the companies doing the CF ones also do FG ones in a similar design?
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Oh and who said dry carbon was $6,000? I found this...
SEIBON Dry Carbon Hood NISSAN 370Z 2009 - 2013 HD0910NS370-OE-DRY
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Now this is coming from users reporting how much X hood weights so need to find a hanging scale and get a few of the Seibon hoods & an OEM hood in Houston and weight them.
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I checked out the link to the Seibon dry carbon hood. Its doesn't even say how much it weighs. (Unless I am missing something). I am guessing that at low of a price, that they are not using a very strong resin system.
Just because it it dry carbon, doesn't mean it is a strong epoxy pre-preg. I'm not on here hating on carbon fiber hoods at all, I am just saying compared to a stock 370z hood, you might not get the weight savings you are expecting. The G37 might have a heavier steel hood. |
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As someone said Inifniti stock hoods are way heavier then the 370z stock one so some cars will see a difference in weight. When we did few 370z hoods the weight was almost close or less then normal Seibon/VIS hoods. These are not carbon hoods in all together two few layers of carbon and rest is fiber which makes these heavier then dry carbon. And if you get these painted they are on par with stock hood eight wise in inifiniti and heavier then stock Z
If main aim is cooling(looks) then its good else not much weight saving there
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