blackgloves

Please post pictures of your Cobalt with after market hoods.

also if possible, post what company or where you bought the hood and the price if you dont mind

CobaltSSEric

here is my hood it is a VIS Racing Invader II hood carbon fiber. cost me 740 dollars

RedEcotecSS

Curious, what exactly makes this thread "official"?? Just wondering..

Jackalope

Its "official" cause he named it that.

blackgloves

thanks! I have a SC'd black Cobalt. Im looking to buy an after market hood and paint it white. then painting the roof and rear white. Ill do some custom black on the hood. I wanna do a custom paint job on the car and hood. I bascially wanna draw a line right below the hood on the fender and paint from that line up white.

nothing. I searched for threads dedicated for Hoods and didn't have the luck I wanted. Every time theres a thread that is "official" people tend to participate more and it normally is stickied

lucky_lellow06

Invader Hood, got it from octanemotorsports.com, for about $710

HatedCobalt

kenhebe

That hood looks stupid. And to the person with the "invader" hood. Is your hood shut in that picture or does the hood just fit that poorly?

lucky_lellow06

If your asking me, it doesn't fit properly unless you take off the hydrolic hinge. (or whatever it's called.)

Since the carbon fiber weighs less, the hinge is used to having a heavier weight to hold. Soo, it makes it stick up more on that side from the hinge, but you can easily take the thing off. 5 minutes, tops.

Jackalope

Ahhhhh the voice of maturity. He made that hood himself, somethng I doubt you could do. As for the invader hood its due to a few things namely its carbon fiber so its lite and it flexes more then the steel hood does and the strut support that holds the hood open is too stron and long for the carbon hoods. Thats why I went and found one that works cause I didn't want that gap.

RedEcotecSS

I've been wanting a CF hood for a while now, but I'm afraid that I'll have tons of fitment issues. I've always heard they will fit, but not perfectly... Can anyone confirm/deny this?

Jack, don't you have an aftermaket hood? If so, which one??

th0ughtless

Man, thats a sorry ass comment. This thread is for all hood options.

Jackalope

No fitment issues at all with my CF hood BUT you NEED to get a weeker hood strut or you'll have the gap like in the above pics of the invader hood.

Yes I have the SS CF hood I got from Tyler, I'll try to get a recent pic up now that it's done.

Edubs

RK Sport is usually your best bet. From everything I've seen over the years all the way back into my JBO days, RK Sport hoods fit the best regardless if they're fiberglass or c/f. Sometimes (especially w/ the j-bodies) RK hoods fit better than stock...

lucky_lellow06

Where'd you get a weaker strut?

RedEcotecSS

Thanks guys. I'll keep that in mind, Edubs. I'm looking at that RK Sport G5 hood...

Jackalope

Advance Auto parts. If your LUCKY you can find a place that still has the books for them. The books tell you compressed and extended length and the amount of force they exert. Unfortunetly after hitting 10 different places I gave up and just started to compair them and found a smaller weeker one that doesn't push up on the closed hood. I'll go take some pics if you like.

Edubs

PM Tony (CTCobaltSS), he has the G5 hood on his car. I know for a fact that he is really happy with his. Good luck!

Jackalope

Well when my wife gets home from work i'll see where she hid the cord for the camera and THEN I'll post the pics.

lucky_lellow06

I've got some pics of the SS hood, they're just on the comp. at home. I'll be able to post 'em later on tonight.

Thanks!

HatedCobalt

there is some ss cf hood shoots for ya. i used to have it and then i sold it to jackalope.

boez06

^^^love that hood

blackgloves

nice! Im thinking about that SS functional hood. the paint job Im going with would love that SS hoot (my idea for custom paint) thanks for sharing. Where did you buy yours?

freakta

iTrader: (1)

id love a nice cf hood but they are too much money for something that does almost nothing, hell while im at it id love a cf trunk

xravenwingsx

I love TSAPerformance's hood with the louvers...looks very hot rod/retro. Good job!

TSA--I used to have that same SS-style hood... I loved the thing. Needed cash one week and sold it and my CF trunk though. Kicking myself in the ass for it ever since. (well, except that CF damaged to easily for my daily communting and weekend canyon runs)