look what i found (carbon fiber panels)

[Guest dutch]

http://www.vacmotorsports.com/cgi-bin/view_cat.pl?cat=Carbon+Fiber

[FL02]

Woah, Pretty cool. Might be a choice if I ever need a new hood or lid. Good for the 2002 Tuner, nice find.

[ridr4lif]

Carbon is a little too expensive for my tastes. Awesome how light all that stuff is tho. Awesome for the racer.

[Harv]

These are pin on racing skins from what i know. Coop tried to make these work years ago. Then he found a place that promised to make some CF hooods and trunk lids that were exact replicas of the orig and used all the original mounting points. I have a set of these but didn't paint them and I may use them on my car someday for that Alpina look.

John

[Guest dutch]

i dont like unpainted carbon fiber. its really ricey. its way cool when no one knows you have it cause then you car is hella fast and its not obvious.

[_z_]

(nt)

[ray_]

Got one. ;-)

Cheers,

Ray

[beast02er]

Those Dang rice cars!!!!!

Carbon won't make your car faster, it'll make it lighter. A lot of the cars running around with exposed carbon panels are far from what i'd call fast!

Hopefully you've just done the right things to take advantage of the cars new carbon diet.

[Guest dutch]

ya, i know its not gonna make your car fast. but if your looking for cf panels im assuming youve allready done lots to make your car fast and just looking for a loss of a few pounds. and YES it is ricey have you seen any sema tuner cars. they expose all of their cf trying desperatly to look fast, i was watching some show about sema and some guy was all ya my nsx is pushing about 290hp. later i looked it up and thats how much the nsx has stock. that guy had all carbon fiber panels by the way. and i allways see civics going down the road with cf hoods. the reason people dont paint it is to "save weight" like in F1 witch is bs for street cars or any car thats not an airplane one wheels.

ITS LAME TO SHOW HOW LIGHT YOUR BODY PANELS ARE!

[-=Charley]

i believe they also do not paint them to 'save money'. ..and why paint over something as beautiful as a twill weave cf pattern?? played out? yes. unnecessary? sometimes perhaps. Rice? no. rice is when someone applies a 'carbon' veneer over their steel hood and interior trim to look like it's light. cf is mucho lighter. weight savings is weight savings. i say more power to them if they can afford it.

[TMK-001]

I like the idea of stealth carbon fibre - I would do some similar graphics to the 3.0CSL graphics on the side and actaully leave the 'image' as exposed carbon fibre - so if someone in the know saw it they would be impressed without actually having "LOOK AT THIS BONNET ITS CARBON FIBER" bare look taht soooo many dip shiiits love!

Its like NOS... why would you spray with then you are not racing or purging the lines!?! It is just wasting it!

Todd

[FL02]

Whatever...carbon is a cool look. . I bet if you put the carbon hood and trunk lid you'd get a lot of thumbs up, and looks from the ladies. What's in, is not always bad. Also, would probably save about, 80 lbs or so & if you have a broken hood bolt like me, it could be an option for an EZ replacement, although its pretty expensive.

[NickVyse]

Whatever...carbon is a cool look. . I bet if you put the carbon hood and trunk lid you'd get a lot of thumbs up, and looks from the ladies.

you must know some pretty strange women! all the ones I know would ask why I couldn't afford to paint the car in one colour!

I've got one of Coops carbon bonnets looking at me in the garage - I was going to wait fitting it until my next project car needed spraying, but I reckon it'll have to go on my current car soon.

I'm with Todd on this one though and don't particularly want the carbon look with my mint grun body work. equally I don't want to spend money on painting it to match when my next cars going to be a different colour. Perhaps I'll do it rattle can satin black, alpina styley.

[Guest dutch]

why would any woman give a shit if you have carbon fiber.

"ohh is that carbon fiber?"

why, yes it is.

"way cool, here's my number"

THATS NOT HOW IT WORKS!

[beast02er]

Like the famous saying goes, to each his own.

I guess if carbon were RICEY all the super cars wouldn't be using it and not painting it