Do you guys think a whole carbon fiber front end would look ghetto/ricey? Ex: CF hood, fenders, front bumper, and front lip? Obviously, i'd have to get the fenders and bumper custom made....but just want your opinions

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Something like that?

 

thats fking hot.... but uu can get cf fenders from gravanatuning.com

 

I think it would look good ONLY IF the paint from the back looked shredded off of the front, revealing the carbon fiber.

 

I made this a few years back

 

What about the bumper though?

poolboys, dude a whole cf car would be crazy, and would be stolen in a day, but would be light as hell

 

if it was painted than it would look better

 

I think carbon fiber only looks good as an accent. Kind of like chrome. Too much chrome just looks stupid. To me anyway.

 

i like it looks good

 

I kinda also agree. I have a hood, wing and hood already....and i think just a cf lip would really set the car off and not be too much.

 

You can get every thing but the 1/4 panels in carbon fiber very expensive but it saves almost 500lbs

 

so how much weight is saved wit hood, spoiler, trunk and fenders in CF

 

i think it looks dumb until you get up close to it and notice thats its not an unpainted front end

it also doesn't really flow because of the side skirts that intersect with the fenders...

 

looks cool and if it saves weight even better

 

if you have a black car or are planning on getting a custom paint job it would look awesome otherwise it looks kinda goofy. id still do it because one my car is black and 2 i car more about the dropped weight than i do about how it looks. also taking off that much weight from the front might make the wheel hop start all over again.

 

"You can get every thing but the 1/4 panels in carbon fiber very expensive but it saves almost 500lbs"

That just doesnt make any sense. I do autobody for a living, so Im replacing/sanding/painting panels on a daily basis. Have you ever held a sheetmetal fender? They really dont weigh much at all. You can hold up a cobalt fender with your finger. There were pages and pages on wieght recuction over at thirdgen.org (3rd generation F bodies) And I tried to do all the research I could on the topic to get my 88 IROC down to roughly sub 3100 lbs so far. On those cars fiberglass is the obvious alternative for most body panels and maybe a couple CF hoods. the fiberglass fenders weigh 3 lbs less than the sheetmetal ones for a 3rd gen. And the doors are really heavy but unless your gonna ditch the glass, the outer doorskin doesnt weigh anything, and you need the doorshell for support/protection. I KNOW that CF weighs quite a bit less than CF, but still u gotta outweigh the cost. I only decided to replace the heavy ass hood with a nice glass Harwood cowl. As for the rest, I just replaced all the steel that I could with aluminum, (heads, intake manifold, rear drums, and soon to come driveshaft). Also things like headers weigh a lot less than manifolds. As for custom CF bumpers...they would cost a crap-load. what happens when a car hits it kinda hard? Plastic bumper covers can be replaced or repaired for reasonable money, with CF, replacing it for a lotta money would usually be the case. Also called "bump"ers for a reason, they spring back. As for the 500 lb savings? The hood decklid and spoiler replacments would save the most weight, and Id say those would be 150 lbs savings tops. Also we have a CF 3000 GT hood at the shop. The guy didnt have hood pins put in, only the stock latch and it came off on the highway and ripped off at the hinges and almost hit a few people when it landed. It looks durable, but not repairable,at least not without pinting over that look everyone pays for

 

In my opinion, it looks stupid and will cost WAY too much money.

 

ricey yes, waste of money too- the only reason you'd need something like that if you were doing some serious racing. if you got even in the smallest of fender benders, you're f**ked

 

If you have a show car yea, then it would serve a purpose, if not its going to be a bitch to keep it clean and take care of it.

 

not to mention rock chips would be more like rock cracks on CF

 

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