GB Feeler: VIS carbon fiber hoods

[workaholic]

pending price, i may be interested.

Tom

[Low Level E30]

I had a VIS hood for a while and it weighed about 15lbs compared to the stock one around 40lbs.

Thanks for the good info --- what happened your VIS hood? Did you get rid of it? Break it? What?

[Low Level E30]

Interested if the price is significantly lower than $650 shipped. If its $630 shipped I would spend the extra $20 on ebay just to have it sometime this year since we all know how GB's go here.;)

Ditto.

[cheades]

Thanks for the good info --- what happened your VIS hood? Did you get rid of it? Break it? What?

Got rid of it, needed to buy some other stuff for the car.

[Anthrsckmnd]

Well I just got off the phone with carbon innovations (jtrsport.com) and he basically said that our hood is a special order item, and that there is a carbon fiber shortage, so we could expect a discount of about $10 from their $650 shipped cost. So unless anyone else knows of any other distributors of the ViS hoods, I'd say that it's pretty much a bust on the group buy.

[project86]

Try a fiberglass hood group buy from Ireland Engineering. I'd like to get one of there hoods for stock hinges for like $400, and I think they fit better too.

[europeanplates]

So speaking of fit, what is the best fitting, looking hood cost aside!!!

[BMW2ner]

dont they make a CF sunroof? In be in for that

[der affe]

i'd be down for the fiberglass hood...for stock hinges...also. just looking to shave some weight off of the car. it doesn't have to be carbon fiber.....still not a honda

[tonytony]

hondas or not carbon fiber looks kool, the fiberglass form IE doesn't weigh that much more, i think it's about 17lbs if i'm not mistaking. make that 20lbs

[E30_pilot]

So speaking of fit, what is the best fitting, looking hood cost aside!!!

Mashaw Weighs 12 lbs..but is about $750(?)

[der affe]

unfortunately in AZ the sun cook the crap out of it turning the resin to yellow in a summer on low $ carbon fiber and on expensive stuff it takes 2 summers to make it cloudy and yellow. that never looks cool. neither does ill fitting stuff, if you paint you can block it and fix the bad stuff.

[silversleeper]

unfortunately in AZ the sun cook the crap out of it turning the resin to yellow in a summer on low $ carbon fiber and on expensive stuff it takes 2 summers to make it cloudy and yellow. that never looks cool. neither does ill fitting stuff, if you paint you can block it and fix the bad stuff.

so thats whats happening to the carbon fiber high mount on my R6. im gonna start carrying a microfiber slip to cover it before it completely gets destroyed.

[der affe]

uuum bump?