Carbon Fiber hood
03-02-2010 | 07:29 PM
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Carbon Fiber hood
Bought this hood the other night waiting for it to come in but just wondering what people thought of it its a Seibon Carbon Fiber TSII.
THanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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THanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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03-02-2010 | 07:47 PM
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Ordered it from here bought other stuff from here pretty good sight........
http://www.vividracing.com/catalog/s...07-p-8010.html
http://www.vividracing.com/catalog/s...07-p-8010.html
03-03-2010 | 01:21 AM
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Great hood. I have it on my own RX8. I'd highly suggest having it layered with 3M clearbra or a similar material to prevent oxidation and fading of the clear coat. Otherwise in about 2 years of sun you'll probably need to repaint the hood.
I've had my hood for nearly 3 years and it looks as good as the day I installed it.
I've had my hood for nearly 3 years and it looks as good as the day I installed it.
03-03-2010 | 02:02 AM
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Great hood. I have it on my own RX8. I'd highly suggest having it layered with 3M clearbra or a similar material to prevent oxidation and fading of the clear coat. Otherwise in about 2 years of sun you'll probably need to repaint the hood.
I've had my hood for nearly 3 years and it looks as good as the day I installed it.
I've had my hood for nearly 3 years and it looks as good as the day I installed it.
I will agree with Flashwing... I have my Seibon CF TS hood and the clear gel was decent... unfortunately my hood got keyed, in an unfortunate way it forced me to get a clear coat, and it looks amazing, so much better than the old clear gel coat. Best thing is it now wont fade!!!
03-03-2010 | 09:06 AM
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I was originally supposed to go with the TSII but settled for the TS... Seibon's hood have awesome fitment and with just very little tweaking it was perfect. I just havn't gotten around to clear coating it yet...
03-03-2010 | 09:39 AM
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Mines still good...but im planning on getting it coated prolly next month cuz its hot and sunny here...and ive seen lots of CF hoods that are already faded..and from what ive seen in the forum most people get it coated right away...
03-04-2010 | 10:02 AM
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You save perhaps a little weight contrast to the stock aluminum hood, and it's stronger. That's about it. Overall it depends though on what type of CF and how much CF they use to structure it.
From what I know dry CF is a lot more expensive yet yields lighter weight than wet CF. Wet CF in general can still be lighter than a metal counterpart all depending on how many layers are used w/ resin to get the finished product. Excessively using too much material in anything will yield more weight than the stock part.
From what I know dry CF is a lot more expensive yet yields lighter weight than wet CF. Wet CF in general can still be lighter than a metal counterpart all depending on how many layers are used w/ resin to get the finished product. Excessively using too much material in anything will yield more weight than the stock part.
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some ppl.. Dunno what to say.