[Shotimes] Carbon Fiber hood for the SHO

[Noah South III]

Or you could just take the hood off and run the car without it.  <G>

-Noah South III

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Nunnally" <manunnal@netheaven.com>
To: <shotimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 11:45 AM
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Carbon Fiber hood for the SHO


> > Can you provide some more detail?  What is the weight of our stock steel
> > hoods and what would a CF hood weigh?
>
> I've talked to a few folks about using the plus hood as a mold and model
> (for gen1) and building a CF unit for it.  I want one for track work (for
my
> 89).  Even the plus hood is a boat anchor.
>
> stock steel is about 50 lb, plus hood is 42.5 lb.  one of the track events
> back in the summer I was chewing the fat with one of the BMW guys pit'd
next
> to me, he had a CF hood for his bimmer, weighed 8 lbs.
>
> Also I'm interested (more-so really) in the fascia's, as both weigh 2x
what
> the hood does.  yeah yeah there is bracing you can take out, but it would
be
> a lot more slick to have a 15 lb bolt on replacement
>
> mark
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