OEM Carbon Fiber Hoods Group Buy - 1998-2000 Contour

[dairdevyld]

Colour me tentative. I can probably swing it during April. Hope that's not going to be too late.

[CSVT#49]

Man I want to order this already... come on people lets get things moving

[Manimillion]

Should have the car back sometime this week, I'll take more pictures, maybe it'll get the people going.

[rollinstylee]

Can you weigh it if you didn't already? That's what I'm most interested in. Also I didn't see an answer to my question of the company actually producing the examples we'd be getting in the GB. Thanks.

[YOOOO]

It's in the first post

[Redlineracer12]

Man I want to order this already... come on people lets get things moving

Agreed

[Manimillion]

Can you weigh it if you didn't already? That's what I'm most interested in. Also I didn't see an answer to my question of the company actually producing the examples we'd be getting in the GB. Thanks.

It is already on my car, so I dont' think I am willing to take it off to weight it, but it is considerably ligher than the stock hood, since I took them both off myself, and you almost need two people to handl the steel hood.

The hoods are produced by C-West. They had great molds and they went bankrupt. Aerokits picked up the remainder of the hoods and are offering them to sell it.

[CSVT#49]

You know I'd like to know what happened to the molds for this thing. Seems like there could be a benefit in having it.

[rollinstylee]

It's in the first post

If you're referring to the line, "The hood was produced by the now non existant company CWEST," the operative word is "was," implying that a finite number are still available, and as I recall the previous interest thread mentioned ten. Since this group buy needs "at least 5" but doesn't mention a maximum, it sounded as if some other company was going to reproduce them. I've been following the threads, it was a legitimate question. Thanks Mani for answering. So Aerokits is selling the CWEST product; does that mean that this is in fact capped at ten or whatever the remaining inventory is?

It is already on my car, so I dont' think I am willing to take it off to weight it.

I can understand that, but surely the seller would be willing to weigh some if you asked nicely? It'd be nice to have some data on variation as a quality check as well. Sorry if I'm coming across as difficult, just pursuing this information due to serious interest.

[Manimillion]

If you're referring to the line, "The hood was produced by the now non existant company CWEST," the operative word is "was," implying that a finite number are still available, and as I recall the previous interest thread mentioned ten. Since this group buy needs "at least 5" but doesn't mention a maximum, it sounded as if some other company was going to reproduce them. I've been following the threads, it was a legitimate question. Thanks Mani for answering. So Aerokits is selling the CWEST product; does that mean that this is in fact capped at ten or whatever the remaining inventory is?


I can understand that, but surely the seller would be willing to weigh some if you asked nicely? It'd be nice to have some data on variation as a quality check as well. Sorry if I'm coming across as difficult, just pursuing this information due to serious interest.

I think there is about 5-6 hoods.

We can always ask them to weight it, they probably have an idea since they shipped it out.

The quality is higher than what I expected, the carbon fiber wraps around to the underskin, and it is about 1 inches of wrap which is something you don't see often anymore.

I got my car back today, once the weather is nicer, I'll put it out and take some pictures.