New carbon fiber vented hood????
12-05-2004 | 06:08 PM
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New carbon fiber vented hood????
Hey i was just browsing on cardomain.com and came across this red rx-8 with a sweet vented hood, anyone seen this??? what do you think? i like it has a nice clean look yet not over doing it, IMO.
12-05-2004 | 10:10 PM
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just so you know www.rx8garage.net sells them thew the owner is a vendor here and he has some other CF hoods
12-06-2004 | 01:51 AM
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It looks like a Knight Sports hood for the RX-7. Liked it on the 7, not so much on the 8....in general I don't think it works well to take a design for one car and then transfer it to the next...if you don't design it for the 8, good luck getting it to look clean. Just my opinion, as always....
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12-07-2004 | 01:23 AM
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Your original post said "What do you think." Now people tell you and that's "coming off like an ***?"
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Originally Posted by LiL BenNy
I was just trying to give my 2 cents on what i know of the hood.... if you want to come off like an *** then please do so
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no harm, not ment to be and *** comment
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12-07-2004 | 01:37 AM
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Originally Posted by LiL BenNy
I was just trying to give my 2 cents on what i know of the hood.... if you want to come off like an *** then please do so
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no harm, not ment to be and *** comment
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Thought so
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12-07-2004 | 03:57 AM
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Originally Posted by LiL BenNy
Hey i was just browsing on cardomain.com and came across this red rx-8 with a sweet vented hood, anyone seen this??? what do you think? i like it has a nice clean look yet not over doing it, IMO.
Last edited by Sociopath; 12-07-2004 at 04:05 AM.
12-07-2004 | 02:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Sociopath
Here are couple more photos of the Carbon Fiber Hood Lil BeNy was talking about. This model is called the KS-Style. I've seen several places selling them for $749 shipped. The OEM-Style goes for about $649 shipped.
I have only seen rx8garage.com
the mesh may make it look cheap but with no mesh it looks funny
12-07-2004 | 10:17 PM
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I don't think they're white...I think they're just unpainted metallic mesh. Personally, on the FD (and I was right it appears...calling it "KS-style" implies they've copied the Knight Sports hood, although I don't know if Knight Sports actually makes a hood like that for the 8) I thought the metallic mesh looked fine, as long as the hood was painted body color (of course its a pretty easy thing to simply paint the mesh if you don't like the silver look). I like carbon fiber in its place, but body panels...including hoods....is not one of those places. Again, just my $0.02.
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12-07-2004 | 11:16 PM
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Originally Posted by mikeb
what sites sell it ??
I have only seen rx8garage.com
the mesh may make it look cheap but with no mesh it looks funny
I have only seen rx8garage.com
the mesh may make it look cheap but with no mesh it looks funny
I got the TSII style.