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Carbon Fiber Hoods 900

posted by  someone claiming to be bamboozled on  Tue Apr 18 18:10 CST 2006 [RELATED]

LEE, your post just goes to show that 240 owners are much better mechanics and just plain smarter in general. People treat the 700/900 as disposable cars like the Honda or Hyandai. Why? because those 700/900 boxes just don't have any character like the venerable 240. Besides, 240 owners have more class and sophistication.


BUT REALLY FOLKS: The carbon fiber hood from IPD sells for what? like $800? I don't see any point to it unless you have a totally stripped out, light weight SCCA'ish car with a turbo putting out real numbers. Otherwise what you have is some pretentious Ricey fashion accesory that'll eventually get chewed up by the sun in the same manner as our dash boards. Face it, these aren't race cars. My advice is to go with the aluminum and delete some of the cross bracing or underpinnings of the hood. Have you considered fiberglass? Maybe kepler niko will chime in with his fiberglassing expertise.






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