Carbon fiber hood
02-24-2006, 09:13 PM
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Carbon fiber hood
I don't know the weight of the OEM, but I thought I'd share this one with those interested. If anyone knows more weight reducing body kits, please share! Here ya go.
02-24-2006, 09:56 PM
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RE: Carbon fiber hood
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Hmm. I didn't know how much it weighed. I would love to trim 100 pounds or so here and there. Maybe the stock is light enough.
Hmm. I didn't know how much it weighed. I would love to trim 100 pounds or so here and there. Maybe the stock is light enough.
02-24-2006, 11:51 PM
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RE: Carbon fiber hood
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I think there's other places you could start with weight saving............like the driver! [sm=joke.gif] I'm kiiiiiiidding, kidding. hehe.
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Hmm. I didn't know how much it weighed. I would love to trim 100 pounds or so here and there. Maybe the stock is light enough.
Hmm. I didn't know how much it weighed. I would love to trim 100 pounds or so here and there. Maybe the stock is light enough.
03-02-2006, 12:13 PM
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RE: Carbon fiber hood
03-02-2006, 12:34 PM
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RE: Carbon fiber hood
Fiberglass and composite hoods can very depending on manufacturing method, resin amounts, thickness and of course composite quality.
An unnamed company here that makes CF can say that a full vacuum bagged CF hood with 8 layers of CF (72" mat) weighs around 12-14lbs.
I'm pretty sure the stock hood is not that light.
I know the new shelby hood coming out is way past 45lbs.
The 99-01 cobra hoods were 47lbs.
A marauder hood weighs 92lbs.
Just because its aluminum doesn't mean its light.
Now in reference to the seibon hood above this company tends to use aluminum frames and puts fiberglass or CF overlays. So their not pure composite products.
You can always knock off like 10-20 lbs with some lightwweight weels from BBS. Wilwood brakes knock off several pounds fromt eh much heavier stock OEM models.
Aftermarket seats with seat mount can knock off quite a bit. Mostly from leaving the stock seat mount which weighs a ton.
Moving from a stock DS to a CF driveshaft will save you quite a bit as well.
Spare tire equipment.
An unnamed company here that makes CF can say that a full vacuum bagged CF hood with 8 layers of CF (72" mat) weighs around 12-14lbs.
I'm pretty sure the stock hood is not that light.
I know the new shelby hood coming out is way past 45lbs.
The 99-01 cobra hoods were 47lbs.
A marauder hood weighs 92lbs.
Just because its aluminum doesn't mean its light.
Now in reference to the seibon hood above this company tends to use aluminum frames and puts fiberglass or CF overlays. So their not pure composite products.
You can always knock off like 10-20 lbs with some lightwweight weels from BBS. Wilwood brakes knock off several pounds fromt eh much heavier stock OEM models.
Aftermarket seats with seat mount can knock off quite a bit. Mostly from leaving the stock seat mount which weighs a ton.
Moving from a stock DS to a CF driveshaft will save you quite a bit as well.
Spare tire equipment.
