Carbon Fiber Hood Weight

[MRWILT]

Anyone know how much weight you might drop with a carbon fiber hood?

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[cooler2442]

Originally Posted by MRWILT

Anyone know how much weight you might drop with a carbon fiber hood?

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SLeK hood:

"The stock OEM hood weighs a massive 44lbs, our double sided hood weighs 16 pounds and single sided is 21lbs."


But remember all CF is made differently. Some hoods such as the SLeK one is made in California and they use high quality materials. A different hood that may be made in China won't be as light or durable. But this gives you a rough estimate of how heavy our stock hood is atleast.

[MRWILT]

Originally Posted by cooler2442

SLeK hood:

"The stock OEM hood weighs a massive 44lbs, our double sided hood weighs 16 pounds and single sided is 21lbs."


But remember all CF is made differently. Some hoods such as the SLeK one is made in California and they use high quality materials. A different hood that may be made in China won't be as light or durable. But this gives you a rough estimate of how heavy our stock hood is atleast.

Awesome, thanks for the good info dude!

[hyper1]

I think my hood was about 24 lbs
Single sided.....

[Zeros and ones]

I am looking to do a carbon fiber hood and trunk on my car.

However, I know that our hood shocks/struts (whatever you would like to call it that hold our hoods up) if they remain the same when opening the hood or trunk will have it fly open.

What are some good substitutes for them so that it does not happen?

[///Machiavelli]

Look into using M3 hood struts (?). I recall that the hood on the M3 is aluminum alloy weighing somewhere around 24lbs which is much closer in weight to cf options than stock 1er hood.

[Everfly]

Originally Posted by Zeros and ones

I am looking to do a carbon fiber hood and trunk on my car.

However, I know that our hood shocks/struts (whatever you would like to call it that hold our hoods up) if they remain the same when opening the hood or trunk will have it fly open.

What are some good substitutes for them so that it does not happen?

I used 1 shock and work perfectly fine no need to buy anything

[Zeros and ones]

Originally Posted by machiavelli9988

Look into using M3 hood struts (?). I recall that the hood on the M3 is aluminum alloy weighing somewhere around 24lbs which is much closer in weight to cf options than stock 1er hood.

would this be ok to use even if you get a double sided CF hood. Those weight like 16 lbs i believe

Originally Posted by Everfly

I used 1 shock and work perfectly fine no need to buy anything

Interesting.. I have heard and seen some people do this. I had one person say that he needed to brake the shock in the center so that it does not fling open and doesn't flex his hood.

Did you break your too or did you leave yours as is?
and is your hood double sided CF or single sided?

Thanks for the reply's gentlemen. This is definitely helping me out alot