storemannormin

go check out carbon-creation.com

storemannormin

Mxc racing up here asures me it will fit , I think they are getting pissed at me i call almost every day about it to make sure...He also said if it does not fit he will take it back.

storemannormin

woohoo my hood just came in, I will try and put it on tonight and advise in the am if she fits like a glove or like a mitt

speedsector

i have a VIS hood and it fits perfect. can't say much about the difference in weight but i've gotten a lot of compliments on it. i'm not sure if i like the contrast in color from my sunlight silver. i initially wanted the veilside hood but back then it was on back order for 3 months. i think it's still on back order but when it's available, i might sell my cf hood for the veilside. i'll post up some pics of my hood tomorrow.

speedsector

i have a VIS hood and it fits perfect. can't say much about the difference in weight but i've gotten a lot of compliments on it. i'm not sure if i like the contrast in color from my sunlight silver. i initially wanted the veilside hood but back then it was on back order for 3 months. i think it's still on back order but when it's available, i might sell my cf hood for the veilside. here's one pic with my camera phone. i'll post one up with my digital camera tomorrow.

got the pics. not that great since i just took them and it's night time here.

storemannormin

OK Got my hood, let me cut through the bull crap...When you first install it there is a huge gap at the front almost a half inch and on the side like a 1/4 inch....NOw I had to burr the second hole on the hood hinge so I would be able to move my hood forward and also had to cut down the left little rubber grommet so it would close properly. Note that you have to remove your old lock latch on the stock hood and add it to your new CF hood...I have to say I am no mechanic but after some serious ajustments this hood fits awesome and looks so good I needed to be alone with it so I could have my way with her.....by the way speed your hood on those pics seem to have a gap at the front and does not look as good as mine..I will post some pics asap.

speedsector

there is a slight gap more than the stock hood. didn't really bother me much. i guess i can modify the mounting of it and get a tighter fit like yours.

XDEEDUBBX

any of you guys plan on installing hood pins? i just ordered my vis hood today...maybe install it over the weekend...

speedsector

i don't really wanna install hood pins cause it let's anyone be able to open the hood unless there are hood pins with locks that i'm unaware of.

XDEEDUBBX

the stock latch should still hold it up...these are there jsut in case the stock ones fail...

mikeb

is the rx8 hood on visracing.com or did you order through a shop

Sociopath

What you need to do is instead of fashion your own bracket, play with the rubber bump stops and adjust the height of the rubber stops to raise the hood. Also, stack 1-3 washers between the hood bracket and the hood itself to extend the bracket. That way you could raise the hood itself and line it up better.

storemannormin

HI do i post my pics?

ShowandDriftRX8

Here are some updated pics of our SEIBON hood. The fitment was pretty much right on from pulling it out of the box. We only had to raise the hood latch.

XDEEDUBBX

i ordered the hood through a friends shop in long beach...i paid 400 for it..not bad...they deal with a lot of vis hoods...he said out of like 20 hoods he installed only one was bad...other than that their not bad...im installing it on saturday...

black-rx8-msbodykit

iTrader: (-1)

THis is fucing **** me off, why your seibon hood look perfect, and my still look like shi* with the fucing hood pin on. i still have gap on the side, i am going insane, i want to kill the guy made the hood.

ShowandDriftRX8

Are you able to post some pics of your hood? If you need to resize it you can use one of your photo programs on your computer and save it into a smaller file size so it allows you to post it. I don't believe any Carbon hood will fit like your OEM hood there are always going to be problems with gaps here and there but there are ways to get around it usually. I have run into a hood on my other car where it just was totally off and there was no way it could be fixed. It took a long time to get that straightened out but in the end I got a better fitting hood. That was on a Honda Civic.
The hood we received from SEIBON is pretty much perfect out of the box. Pretty much means that we had to tweak it here and there but all I did was raise the latch and loosen my front bumper bolts near the top and push the bumper in a little more closer to the hood to minimize the gap and then retightened the bolts.

Maybe you just need a TSUNAMI front bumper to get rid of the gap in the front. JK

See if you can get those pics up otherwise email them to me and I can try and post them up.

black-rx8-msbodykit

iTrader: (-1)

ok thanks dude. i am bring in my car to the dealership on monday, do the six months service, and i am gonna ask those guy if they can fix the hood or the hood just made bad. By the way, i did push the front bumper back and tie the screws, but it still have little gap in my front left and my whole left side. It just **** me off.

mikeb

Post Some Pics^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

dazygirl415

that looks awesome! i'm having to decide b/n oem or cf hood for my car and you just made me feel great about my decision. CF IT IS!!!