Carbon Fiber Hood Options - Please express your interest

Sweet, thanks for the opinion brah! Clearly, you don't know what the term "ricer" means.

 

I believe this may be what your looking for except a fiberglass version instead of carbon fiber.......its made by mcneil fiberglass

 

It'll be fine if you look at ferrari's, zr1, etc they do the same thing with their CF.

 

Typically when you paint the top side of the hood, you'll clear the underside as well.

 

Ahh.. Yea I suppose clear coat would eliviate all of those worries.

 

Thanks for the pics bro. I've seen this hood, but doesn't quite fit the bill.

 

Yeah i don't really like it looks kind of cheap.....if you go through with this I may be interested in buying one (especially if it were painted...i guess i could do that )

 

How about if the hood scoop tunneled from front to back, without actually breaking through into the engine bay, It'd act like an air dam/wing effect like the Ford GT's have. then leave the side slits for pulling air out? I kind of like the look of the scoop.

 

sounds like a really cool idea id be down. Everyone is making there trucks look like raptors haha. The TACOMA grill and now the hoods

 

Trust me, this hood is gonna be the shit. I just gotta get a couple sample hoods over to them. All the haters gonna wanna get one too.

 

Sans the scoop and I'd be interested in one if offered with a paint ready surface. Traded my stock scooped hood to get rid of it once I found that all available CF hoods were only offered with scoops. Would say that the heat evacuation properties offered by louvers would be best achieved if they were moved further back similar to the ford truck that was pictured above.

So as my Russian friends would say. "Flag to your hand."

 

To answer your initial question, no interest. I am already concerned about the flimsiness of the exterior metal...

 

I would be interested if the price wasnt outrageous

 

Any word on the CF hoods? If they where able to make them and how much?

 

I absolutely hate how they look. My dad owns a body shop and had one laying around so I had it painted. It looked pretty sweet:

 

lol. i dont think you do.

 

Ive always wondered how a cowl hood would look on 2gens. Like a 1” - 2” rise maybe following the lines already on the hood. Could look mean

 

any ideas on where to get this? that hood looks sweet, but i cant find it on their site either. it looks like it might be from one of their taco race body kits

 

I was thinking something like the way this hood was done on a wrangler, but fitting tacoma styling..with the functioning air exit in the low pressure area and scoop bump.

http://www.rubitrux.com/go4x4it/wp-content/gallery/jk-8/jeep-jk-8-white-hood.jpg

or a tacoma version of this style hood...

http://shawnebell.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/526922_10151832336551515_1349634721_n.jpg


I would be interested in something as long as it utilized the factory mounting brackets and factory windshield sprayers/washers, and latching along with a good fit and finish. Haven't seen any for 2012's but the ones I have seen in CF required the racing style hood clips to hold closed.

 

hmm, looking at mcneils site, you might be able to work something like the second with their louvers and some bodywork to the stock hood.... IDK im not a bodywork guy so if i do it ill have a shop install and paint it.