Hey guys. Would you recommend replacing the hood for a fiberglass or carbon fiber hood? Are there any performance gains? If so, are they worth the money?

 

first of all. i dont think this is the section for this... "hood" is not "engine"

secondly... CF hood is lighter. that's what you gain... it also looks nicer to most.

 

most people get carbon fiber hoods for the look.

i don't know how light the stock lancer hood is, if its steel or aluminum, but if it is steel, you're definately going to be saving a lot of weight by going to either fiberglass, or carbon fiber.

with fiberglass, theres also the need to get it painted to match the car, as where a carbon fiber hood can just be thrown on as is. But the downside to fiberglass, is that it can be damaged fairly easily, compared to carbon fiber.

 

get a carbon fiber hood it gives you like 80 hp i hear

 

get fiberglass.. i think carbon fiber looks dumb..

 

im for CF. The stock lancer hood is fairly heavy compared to other cars. Then again.. the entire car is fairly heavy.... lol

keep in mind, fibreglass is cheaper as well. make your choice based on what you like to see.. you won't get much speed out of this if at all.

 

id go for cf hood, im getting one myself one day.if you get a performance hood, it will also help keep ur engin a bit cooler, which is good for sri intake id assume. colder air and what not

 

good one, LOL

Get the CF, u have crazy window tints on your car, it's gonna go along

 

Cool, does anyone know how much the stock hood weighs?

 

how does a CF/fiber glass hood make your ait air colder??? ROFL

 

maybe he's thinking of the hood vents.... but then again... fibreglass hoods can have hood vents too lol.

And colder air is good for any engine.... lol

 

yea i was talking about hoods with vents, and i havent seen any fiberglass hods for our cars anyways. and "cold air and what not" im saying obviously it would help cause cold air id good blah blah blah. ******

 

Most things CF from RRM have a fibreglass version as well. There are actually alot of fibreglass hoods and such for our car.

Also, I didn't mean to offend you or anything. However i did miss reading the "performance hood" and thought you were referring to CF hoods only the entire time.

My apologies if I hurt your feelings

All in all though, back to this thread. I tihnk we can end this thread, with everyone agreeing that the hood, CF or fibreglass, just get what you like. You won't see much gains, if any at all, from a new hood.

 

Save the money and get a REAL performance upgrade...

20 pounds off your car wont make a noticeable different....

Did you know that for ever 100 pounds of your car you shave 0.01 seconds of your 1/4 mile time?

with that money to performance ratio... not worth it imo...

 

were not talking about the engine having colder air, everyone knows that i hope....but he put it like the hood makes colder air???? is it like a special air conditioned hood???? LMAO