Carbon fiber hood

It’s a truck lol, like putting make up on a pig

 

I agree on the heat extractors. I’m not really a fan of the scoop.

 

Been looking around YouTube and found someone drilling through Seibon CF hood and I see fiberglass. I'm not hating but if I'm going to be forking out $$$ for carbon I want it to be legit in full.

 

Everything is made to look carbon fiber these days.

 

Too bad! Too good to be true.

 

I don’t think you would want to pay for that hood it it’s was 100% carbon. I’m fine with fiberglass in it.

 

This is TW man. People pay retarded money for steel and or even that flat plastic piece that replaced your tailgate do you not think people will pay for real carbon?

 

I stand corrected. I wouldn’t pay for 100% carbon lol.

 

All good!

 

How they know it was "fiberglass" you know carbon fiber is fiber with a some sort of resin.

"Raw Materials. Carbon fiber is made from organic polymers, which consist of long strings of molecules held together bycarbon atoms. Most carbon fibers (about 90 percent) aremade from the polyacrylonitrile (PAN) process. A small amount (about 10 percent) are manufactured from rayon or the petroleum pitch process."

with that said idk how you know its "Fiberglass" just saying.

 

I dealt with cf and have created things with them in the past. Just like the picture I posted do you see those white strings of loose materials? That's fg and when you drill through an actual impregnated CF it will be black dust. In the future if you see strands cf looking like that that means it's not properly made.

 

Most definitely however, I'd be afraid of fiberglass failing overtime.

 

Must be mucho denero

 

Good luck off-roading with that without it flexing and cracking and what-not. CF is strong in one dimension and not another. I doubt they designed that thing for all-around strength like steel.

 

Fiberglass is fiberglass and an overlay of carbon and gel coat is for aesthetic only. Carbon doesnt need gel coat at all.

 

There are other ways make bro-lean gains, but this one is the most carbon-fiber-hood-skewpy. Does the stock hood actually weigh all that much? I figure it’s loooooong and leverage is real. Although, any reduction in weight this high up on the body would lower the center of gravity, bro.

 

These are trucks not lightweight purpose built race cars,so why.

 

Same reason why people put light weight wheels, professional grade suspension at the mall, four wheel drive for the street; cause they like it.

 

FG over CF is a common method for these hoods. The cost is less than 50%, actually closer to 25%, of full raw CF hoods I've seen in the past. Raw CF doesn't need gel coat, sure, good luck cleaning it and keeping if from fading in sunlight, even the manufacturers recommend paint or clear on raw hoods.

For the s2000 a raw CF hood was typically >$3000 whereas the VIS and Seibon stuff was <$800. The expensive stuff typically being about 5lbs lighter in the end. The return on investment was mainly in bragging about spending too damn much.

The one negative that I saw come up more than once with these aftermarket hoods was fitment. Some where good and some never fit right. The expensive stuff had the same issues, albeit less mentioned, likely because of their rarity.

 

Id love to put one on my truck and partially paint it so the "pro" style graphic and scoop are in carbon. But ive have horrible luck with the longevity of carbon on a daily driven non garaged vehicle so I'll pass. Money is better spent elsewhere at the moment. A carbon tailgate shell however would be the ticket.