yay or nay for carbon fiber

[Farbin Kaiber]

the car looks fixable right?

I just wonder if Ins. will total it out.

[kamotors]

did you purposely crash so u can get one. j/k man that sucks i had a crash just like it a few years back. GL with the repairs!

the car looks fixable right?

[bmw325csi]

did you purposely crash so u can get one. j/k man that sucks i had a crash just like it a few years back. GL with the repairs!

[kamotors]

ill try to get a Compitition Concepts hood. cross your figures

[Farbin Kaiber]

Woot!!! For CF hood. Try to get one from Keith (comcon) They are $999.00 but worth it. Looks like you should be able to work it via a body shop with insurance (I hope) toss in a new set of euro grilles, smoked ellipsoids, and some euro bumper trim. You have a eason to do it now.





That is IF they don't total loss it out.

[kamotors]

im getting a carbon fiber hood

[BeirBrennerE30]

compcon do you do custom parts? Hi res examples of products?

[Farbin Kaiber]

Hey Keith, do you have some photos you could post up, maybe in the FS forum showing some of your e30 products? I think a fair and balanced volume of CF distributors should be on display at r3v.

[compcon]

I wouldn't do it, but I'm not a huge fan of carbon fiber on e30s most of the time. Especially when the fit is garbage.

If you buy a quality hood fit is not a problem. Once painted nobody will be able to tell the differnce between it and an oem part .Inexpensive wet layup hoods will generally fit poorly and are heavy.

[soul rebel]

I wouldn't do it, but I'm not a huge fan of carbon fiber on e30s most of the time. Especially when the fit is garbage.

[compcon]

competition concepts hood

Where can you buy the CC hood? I looked and could not find anything. At 350 +/- I will buy one today.

Call Competition Concepts at 518-693-7030 or contact me by e-mail-www.keith@competitionconcepts.com . I can be reached from 9 to 5 eastern. I generally dont answer the phone after 5 so I can focus on other things.

[Sean5294]

i had a vis hood on my civic hatch and loved it. no problem at all and a huge weight difference compared with the stock hood. i saw go for it.

[nando]

That is the part that I have a problem with as well. CF is a fantastic "wonder material" but in a cost vs return situation Fiberglass (or if anyone made ABS hoods) wins out. When I built my 78 rabbit for autocross and took it all the way down to 1621lbs I avoided the $600 carbon fiber hoods that had extra reinforcments for hood hinges and the latch and weighed 9lbs. I took out the extra 3lbs of steel that was the hinges and latch and dropped on a $120 fiberglass hood and used 4 hood pins to secure it. The total weight for hood and pins was 6lbs. I came in 6.5 pounds under the CF setup and saved $480.

I come off as a cranky old guy CF hater because years of exposure to useless crap like CF shift knobs, CF gauge faces, CF intake manifold covers, CF dash face overlays, CF horn buttons, CF Dashboards, CF wheel centercaps have made me that way. It has turned it into fashion and I automatically assume when folks start asking about CF they are only wanting the look.

fiberglass is cheaper for the weight savings but is far more flimsy than CF. I had a super light FG sunroof panel I could have put in - it even worked with the stock power mechanism. But for something that you want to look OE with a coat of paint over it, FG just doesn't hold up, and if it were a race peice I wouldn't want the working power mechanism either.

[SamE30e]

I shit out carbon fiber.. To bad my asshole isn't big enough for a hood.. Maybe a sunroof..

Man I want a CF Sunroof, trunk and hood.

[thull]

Its just cloth and resin, same shit as fg or kevlar so why hate?

Yea the ricers took off with it but there are plenty of legit uses, including hoods, dashboards, aerodynamics, and any other part exposed to structural forces.