How heavy is a stock hood? How heavy is a CF hood?

Asking obviously to see how much weight one would be reducing when making the replacement.

 

Stock hoods are around 30-35lbs. and a CF hood is normally around 5 lbs. So you'd be saving around 25-30 lbs.

Thomas

 

I see, most of the "CF" hoods that are around here are not real CF I'm guessing?

 

how heavy is the stock hatch vs. a cf one

 

Do you have a system? and are you Over weight?

 

i got the kaminari hood in frp, and there is a slight difference in the feel of the car.. so im sure carbon fiber would be much nicer

 

All the CF hoods out now for the tC are made of real CF but aren't 100% CF. All of them are CF over a fiberglass skeleton. If it were CF over CF, it'd be $$$$ and then some.

 

A CF hood off of a race car might weight 5lbs. The ones you can buy for a tC are almost excusively CF skin over a fiberglass skeleton, and will save a few pounds at best. Beyond that, even if the reduction was a full 25lbs (which it is not) you'd still be looking at ~$20/lb for weight reduction. There are much, much cheaper ways to shed pounds.

You buy a CF hood for looks. If you want to save weight, buy unribbed fiberglass and mount it with no less than 5 hood pins. The fiberglass hoods for our racecars are the size of hot tub covers and weigh a few pounds each.

 

plus all of the cf hoods available are wet layup so there's a lot of extra weight because you can never get enough of the resin out in a wet layup. A true cf hood would be dry moulded in an auto-clave, and would cost thousands of dollars.

 

CF replacemnt parts for our car is 99.99999% cosmetic. people think CF is a style, not a funciton. if you want to shed weight, to go faster i presume, money is better spent on a intake/exhaust. and removing the speaker box in the trunk.

 

I have the seibon cf hood and like stated above i believe its cf wrapped in fiberglass. doing a comparison before i put the cf on, i picked up both and it seems there is not such a drastic difference in weight. id say in the neighborhood of 10lbs.

 

I want one strictly beacause mine is chipped as **** and a replacement is in teh near future. Not looking for performance or "looks". I just wanna know, do "cf" hoods chip at all, or just little scratches?? I drive highway all day

 

they do scratch just like paint.

 

the AIT Racing hoods weight 17lbs. so that would save you up to 18 lbs.

Now we at AIT Racing pride ourselves on Fitment and Quality.

There are people/individuals out there that would say other wise.

Some say that our hoods are "weak and flimsy". Now we have incorporated a new method of production to all of our CF products. We have addressed the issue and increased structural strength to the CF hood product line. Our products will and always remain the best in quality and fitment for the price. Our entire line CF products are Race Proven at the highest level of competetion.

For more information on our products please visit our website @ www.aitracing.com

Thanks

 

Thanks, you just saved me a couple hundred bucks, i'll probably just get the hood bra to hide the chips then

 

karma, how much of that weight savings is due to the fact that the hood doesn't retain the stock latch system? Do y'all make one without that intake vent, as in just an OEM?

 

we do offer an OEM style hood. please call our office for pricing.

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