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    In the future I would like to go with a nice cowl hood on the car, Im not really a fan of the carbon fiber look itself as I kind of associate it with rice...so for those of you who have carbon fiber hoods on your car, can you post up some pictures so I can see what it looks like? doesnt matter what kind of hood it is, cowl or not...

    I would prefer black cars since I have black, but post up everything, it will help me visualize better....

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    Re: Carbon Fiber hoods

    Fiberglass hood should be just as light.

    When I took my stock hood off and put on the aftermarket one, I couldn't believe how heavy the stock one was by comparison.

    But you know, the 3rd gen hood was much heavier.

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    • #3
      Re: Carbon Fiber hoods

      Yeah I have a fiberglass SS hood and it is so light all I have to do is pull the hood latch and the hood lifts its self up. I found my hood on ebay for $425 shipped a few years ago, its the SS style but I think its the 97 SS style since the scoop doesn't go flat right in front of the windshiled, kinda keeps a 2'' scoop all the way back.

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      • #4
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        i have seen it before on a black car and it looks good

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          • #6
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            If I go fiberglass I gotta paint it lol...if the carbon fiber really blends in with my black car, then I won't have to paint it.

            Gr8, I saw that pic on google lol, I can't tell if that is carbon fiber or if he just painted that a flat black?

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              I found it on cardomain, it's carbon fiber, here's his page:

              http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2231041
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              • #8
                Re: Carbon Fiber hoods

                ok, if I zoom in I can see its carbon fiber...it looks out of place on that car, but it actually doesnt look too bad, on a black car that might blend right in nicely.

                Now, what I need to find out is if running a 4inch cowl, or something like a harwood style cowl that is all open in the back, will have any impact on the car when it is raining...keep in mind I would have ITBs all the way across what is now our intake manifold...I am worried about water dripping in and hydrolocking the engine, either while the car is sitting in a storm, or driving through one...

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                • #9
                  Re: Carbon Fiber hoods

                  I had a Z-roc 4 inch cowl on mine that's all open and didnt' have any problems as far as rain in the 3 or so years I drove with it... You could watch the water drip off of it, never had a problem with it going under the hood
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                  • #10
                    Re: Carbon Fiber hoods

                    VFN has some light weight hoods, my SS 3" hood was pretty light compared to the steel hood, but if I got another hood a 4" cowl would be sweet.
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                    • #11
                      Re: Carbon Fiber hoods

                      Originally posted by T-Mill View Post
                      I had a Z-roc 4 inch cowl on mine that's all open and didnt' have any problems as far as rain in the 3 or so years I drove with it... You could watch the water drip off of it, never had a problem with it going under the hood
                      did you daily drive it? and the intake manifold itself was never wet at all??

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                      • #12
                        Re: Carbon Fiber hoods

                        yep it was my only car at the time, this was in highschool and first year of college, so it was driven alot... and I was popping the hood all the time bc I had a two-way alarm with a switch to tell if the hood was closed and it needed tightened every so often... the water never dripped past the cowl...

                        The only thing you might have to worry about would be snow getting packed in there or something... but even that hurting anything would be unlikely I would think and would be easy to avoid
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                        • #13
                          Re: Carbon Fiber hoods

                          Originally posted by T-Mill View Post
                          yep it was my only car at the time, this was in highschool and first year of college, so it was driven alot... and I was popping the hood all the time bc I had a two-way alarm with a switch to tell if the hood was closed and it needed tightened every so often... the water never dripped past the cowl...

                          The only thing you might have to worry about would be snow getting packed in there or something... but even that hurting anything would be unlikely I would think and would be easy to avoid
                          well I would probably swap back to stock for the winter time...but I am making Individual throttle bodies, so atleast 4 throttle bodies and there air horns will be sitting directly under that cowl part, so if water does get in, it is going straight into the engine, whereas with the way our cars are set up now, there is nothing really that it can hurt...

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                          • #14
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                            the cowls overhang a bit in the back anyways. water will flow off it just like it does with a stock one.

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                            • #15
                              Re: Carbon Fiber hoods


                              or you could go pollycarbon fiber and its just as light as carbon fiber just paintable , mine is from SLP the ULTRA Z hood

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