I was curious to see if anyone knew who makes this carbon fiber hood and if its common to have the cones on the underside as structural support. From the picture it looks as if it doesn't even have the latch for the hood, but i could be wrong. Just curious if anyone had an idea of what brand it was so i could get an idea of the quality. Thanks in advance.

 

EfiniRX8, I believe it is either the Seibon or Carbon Creations hood.

 

looks exactly like my hood......tc sportline oem style.....check my cardomain to be sure

 

its not seibon
mine doesnt look like that underneath
mine didnt come with a hood latch either
I just used the stock one

 

that looks sick!, does anyone have a pic of one on a TI 8?

 

the cones are not there for structural support purposes or anything......

that is how the underside of our OEM hood looks like!.........that is just from the fibreglass mold of our stock hood...

 

looks like any other oem style rx8 hood..

 

reminds me of the first carbon fiber oem hood that came out..i think rx8store.net sold it..or maybe it was vividracing.com...i forget

 

it was rx8store

 

my cf hood looks like that underneath. it's made by VIS but it has a VIS badge next to the hood latch so i'm not sure it that pic is the same.

 

kinda like putting a picture of a bone stock rx8 and asking us who's it is...haha

 

that is what I was thinking

 

That's how it looks like under the hood? Wouldn't have guessed it. haha

 

www.corksport.com sells a hood just like that or at least they have one on their rx-8.

explanation of shock cone hood for Ngo-

http://autoweb.drive.com.au/cms/A_55...wsarticle.html

 

Aww.. Thanks Zoom

 

Thanks everyone for all their explanation on the hood, the reason why i asked this question was it was selling on ebay for a pretty cheap price. Was going to buy it until they emailed me back telling me shipping was going to cost 300 dollars

 

I was thinking when I saw the pic: "I think Ebay makes that one and shipping is real cheap, I wonder why no one has bid on it?"



Disclaimer: Ebay is fine, just have to realize some people find ways to jerk the buyer, this is one of those times.

 

^^^^^ so true
you have to read the fine print