most cheap carbon fiber body parts are fiberglass with carbon fiber glued over it true carbon fiber is pricey like 3grand a hood. id never run a carnbon fiber driveshaft when they break you cry its like glass ill stick to alum and fiberglass to lose weight

 

F16 did that while I was stationed at Osan AB in Korea. Three days before I left it caught fire after an engine failure on take off, the pilot ejected and the plane crashed near the Doolittle Gate.. Little pieces of airplane everywhere, few larger than the wheels..

One of my Navy buds was tellin me about when the FA18 catches fire and burns they have to wear protective clothing and respirators around the wreckage after the fire is out. Little bits floating in the air that get stuck in your skin, eyes and lungs.. fun stuff!

Making a driveshaft is very much different from making a hood, its a size thing for the oven. As in how many you can fit in there for the treatment at a time makes it either cheaper or stupid expensive..

 

I had a Carbon Fiber Hood on my Celica. Its not that pricey, 3 grand a hood, iunno where u heard that. Mine cost me 365 and it was all CF. Parts got Pricey starting of Iraqi Freedom for obvious millitary reasons. But yeah. CF goes for the Ricer cars that want to be light as dust, cuz they need it for Power to weight. As for our cars, i'd just spend that CF money on performance parts and make more HP rather than save 30 pounds here and there. It pays off on Imports, just not for Torque monster muscle cars.

 

your hood wasnt fully cf take a saw to one youll see the fiberglass inside of them

 

x2.. its still fiberglass that is made to look like carbon fiber. Fiberglass is light, like in the 3-4lb range for a small hood with minimal bracing. true carbon fiber would be lighter still. The ricers, and some of you are being decieved by appearance.. If the part had any sort of gloss to it, it sure as hell wasnt carbon fiber, even though it may look like the matt used in it. The huge diffrence is in the resin used and what activates it. If it is same stuff used on jets, count on it being prohibitively expensive. Check out what it takes to build a Funny car body like John Force uses.. those are all CF, not fiberglass, and they are more expensive than most OEM cars built today.

The fiberglass doors that are going on my race car are 6lbs, the factory ones are 100lbs. the glass is reinforced to withstand use, but otherwise it is verylight.

I guess people think I am just pullin this stuff outa my rear end or something..

 

That is an F/A-18 and your Navy buds are right. That one was one from the squadron i was in in the Marine Corps it crashed at 29 Palms CA bach in the mid 80,s they say the centerline fuel tank cap was not secured. it was a real mess to clean up. I had a great view of it from the fuel pitts and had the fun of being on the cleanup crew.

 

thumpin thanks see im not the only one that udnerstands things theres even a mesh tape you can use to paint things to look like carbon fiber lol

 

Yes sir, their catalog advertises that anything fiberglass in their warehouse can also be made up in carbon fiber. They've got a picture of ron holding a GT350 hood up by its scoop with one hand....I think they advertise the hood at a whopping 15 lbs.

They will cost ya tho...600+ for the hoods, and I'm sure just as much so for fenders, quarter, trunk decks, valances, etc...etc...