YACT: carbon fiber?

[swtethan]

How many lbs would a CF hood take off (estimate) of the normal hood? what about trunk?

 

[ryan256]

Not nearly as much $$ as they'd take off your wallet.

 

[akubi]

got rice?

 

[Howard]

It takes off -15HP.

Why don't you just look up the mass of your hood and compare it with the mass of a CF replacement hood?

 

[imported_Trippin315]

eleventy billion pounds

 

[swtethan]

Originally posted by: ryan256
Not nearly as much $$ as they'd take off your wallet.

-$1000 for hood and trunk

 

[spidey07]

Stickers take off a whole lot more weight man. It's what all the drag racing pros use, you can too!

think of how many stickers you can get for 1000 bucks.

 

[everman]

Add some Type-R stickers, you get 50HP each!

 

[swtethan]

why is it that when someone wants carbon fiber on their car to increase performance on your sports car, you call it rice.... YES I WILL BE PUTTING IT ON A PROPER SPORTS CAR! 2 seat rwd

 

[spidey07]

Any retarded performance modifications = rice.

This includes carbon fiber anything.

 

[swtethan]

Originally posted by: spidey07
Any retarded performance modifications = rice.

This includes carbon fiber anything.

how could making your vehicle lighter be retarded?

 

[Glavinsolo]

Originally posted by: swtethan

Originally posted by: spidey07
Any retarded performance modifications = rice.

This includes carbon fiber anything.

how could making your vehicle lighter be retarded?

OMG the wind

 

[mordantmonkey]

Maybe i don't know crap about cars, but wouldn't the $1000 be better put towards a real performance upgrade instead of shaving a few pounds of your car weight? I mean, if your aim is to actually go faster, rather than just looking fast.

 

[ValValline]

Originally posted by: swtethan
why is it that when someone wants carbon fiber on their car to increase performance on your sports car, you call it rice.... YES I WILL BE PUTTING IT ON A PROPER SPORTS CAR! 2 seat rwd

Because the weight savings won't amount to much unless you have already shaved, drilled, and stripped the car of everything else.

CF = All show and no go about 99.99% of the time.

 

[swtethan]

Originally posted by: mordantmonkey
Maybe i don't know crap about cars, but wouldn't the $1000 be better put towards a real performance upgrade instead of shaving a few pounds of your car weight? I mean, if your aim is to actually go faster, rather than just looking fast.

less weight = more hp/ton = increased performance


im just looking for an estimated weight loss here

 

[fbrdphreak]

2 seat RWD? And what would we be talking about?

2 minutes of googling shows weight reductions of 50-70%, probably mostly dictated by the size of the OEM hood.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Fiberglass would get you 90% of the weight reduction at 20% of the cost.

 

[SilentZero]

Originally posted by: akubi
got rice?

 

[LordMorpheus]

Originally posted by: swtethan
why is it that when someone wants carbon fiber on their car to increase performance on your sports car, you call it rice.... YES I WILL BE PUTTING IT ON A PROPER SPORTS CAR! 2 seat rwd

What kind of car?

With a hood and trunk you could probably kill at least 50 pounds, but it will cost a whole lot of money.

It'd be cheaper, and you'd save more weight, to strip carpets, airconditioning, sound insulation, dashboard, seats (replace with less comfy but lighter seats), pull the spare tire if you're only going to be at a track, pull the sound system, etc.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

http://www.nhra.com/dragster/1999/issue20/racing_technology.html

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: LordMorpheus

Originally posted by: swtethan
why is it that when someone wants carbon fiber on their car to increase performance on your sports car, you call it rice.... YES I WILL BE PUTTING IT ON A PROPER SPORTS CAR! 2 seat rwd

What kind of car?

With a hood and trunk you could probably kill at least 50 pounds, but it will cost a whole lot of money.

It'd be cheaper, and you'd save more weight, to strip carpets, airconditioning, sound insulation, dashboard, seats (replace with less comfy but lighter seats), pull the spare tire if you're only going to be at a track, pull the sound system, etc.

But then others won't know all the work you put into it, unlike a black hood on a blue car.

 

[RiDE]

Originally posted by: swtethan

Originally posted by: spidey07
Any retarded performance modifications = rice.

This includes carbon fiber anything.

how could making your vehicle lighter be retarded?

Don't question him. He's the resident driving expert here.

 

[0roo0roo]

what i wonder is what are the safety ramifications? normal hood is made to bend or crumple in impact. whats that carbon fiber going to do? sheer off go through the windshield and take off your head?

 

[AMDZen]

CF looks sweet, thats what its for - looks, and not weight reduction.

 

[0roo0roo]

but when its the same color as your car, it looks ...err like it isn't there.