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Oct 26, 2003 | 12:22 PM

abugslife

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Damn rock

left a big dent on the hood.

I need information about the hood replacement. Anyone here knows about how much it will cost including the part and the labor roughly?
Thanks.

Oct 26, 2003 | 05:00 PM

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Go Carbon Fiber...

Oct 26, 2003 | 10:19 PM

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Where can we get a complete Carbon fiber top STI hood?

Oct 27, 2003 | 10:03 AM

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Carbon fiber is nice. But remember that unless it has been crash tested it may be very dangerouse. In a front end crash the stock hood bends down and does not travel into the car. A carbon fiber hood my stay in one piece and intrude into the pasenger area of car, possibly killing the driver and pasenger. If the car is your everyday drive stick to stock about $600.00 Painted. If it is a weekend race toy carbon fiber may be the way to go. The stock hood is pretty light. Just my opinion.

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Oct 27, 2003 | 11:00 AM

abugslife

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Thx blue-adept

Stock is my thought too. ~$600 painted, is that quoted from a dealership or just any bodyshop?

Oct 27, 2003 | 04:59 PM

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Just a guestimate. I was at a body shop when they were reparing my wifes car this summer and they were putting a new hood on a WRX. I asked the body shop how much for the part and paint job. They matched the Blue paint perfectly. They painted it off the car as to avoid over spray.

The guy's hood was wacked by some thing when parked. Tore the metal open.

Oct 27, 2003 | 08:45 PM

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Originally posted by Blue-Adept
Carbon fiber is nice. But remember that unless it has been crash tested it may be very dangerouse. In a front end crash the stock hood bends down and does not travel into the car. A carbon fiber hood my stay in one piece and intrude into the pasenger area of car, possibly killing the driver and pasenger. If the car is your everyday drive stick to stock about $600.00 Painted. If it is a weekend race toy carbon fiber may be the way to go. The stock hood is pretty light. Just my opinion.

Blue

Coming from working with composites, I can assure you that none of the commercially available CF hoods Ive seen for street cars are actually autoclaved reinforced structural carbon fiber that you would find on a race car. They are purely cosmetic and almost completely resin. This resin has no reinforcment and gets its stregnth simply from the gross amount they use, Ive seen these things crack and break apart at the mounting points with just normal use, its hard to imagine one maintaing enough stregnth and rigidity to come through the windshield durring an accident.