Ok. Whats yalls overall take on ViS's carbon fiber hood. has everyone had the clearcoat problems? How does it fit? Is it good and sturdy? thanks

 

I have it and love it, I have had mine for almost 2 years and have had no issues with the clear, I have washed it and waxed it several times. It's not the sturdiest, but it's very sturdy for a CF hood, when I drilled the holes to mount my grill I actually cracked it, but it was my own fault, and it's not noticeable especially after I reinforced it. The stock hood latch seems pretty sturdy however like any CF hood, I will probably install hood pins just in case, but I've driven over 100 with it on and never noticed it move even the slightest. Over all though, the fitment is perfect and it looks sexy. Here's mine, and welcome to the forum.

 

i love mine, i just make sure i take it off in the winter and the clearcoat is fine.

 

got mine painted 2 weeks ago cuz it was having clearcoat problems

 

wow, the fit on those looks REAL good especially for CF

nice

 

psh, i got mine god knows when and its been outside since that time! winter, rain, summer all that good shit. and you know what, i have no clue how it is LOL

 

if you buy a new one i would suggest running a clear coat. VIS is known for fading!

 

man i wish Seibon made a hood for us. but beggars cant be choosers.

 

True True, the original group buy was supposed to be seibon but that didnt' happen, you said it matt beggers can't be choosers, at least we got something, I waited 3 years for a real GB to actually happen

 

i guess my hood was one of the left overs or something.

 

They produce them now, but I thought u were in the gb

 

nah, i havent seen any hoods on ebay in a while though.

 

Me either, I am on ebay probation for now though

 

lol what happened???

 

I bought a house, money is tight for a while, waitin to get my first tax return in 4 years to be able to do something with the car. Slowly saving up for smaller projects, but just stayin off the bizzle as much as I can cuz I get into trouble, you know how often and fast I buy things. I did just drop $137 on door handles today though

 

u ended up getting those cf door handles? post pics when they're on

 

lol i seen blackack was the high bidder, well i guess tomorrow ill be ordering that hood. i sent seibon a message asking if they would be making one anytime in the future and they replied, Sorry but we will not be making this item. Sorry. how much did yall give for yalls hoods? i found one on carbonfiberhoods.net for 472 plus 95 shipping.

 

oh also i think goin without hoodpins would be ok, the very front of the hood would give it quite a bit of downforce to keep it down. and what was yall sayin about taking it off in the winter, i didn't know carbon fiber and fiberglass and what not had potential problems in the extreme seasons.

 

You damn right, people on here said it had me written all over them, and they were the first pair I know to exist, so of course I had to jump on them

And mugen, the hood def doesn't go anywhere, like I said I went 100 mph and the hood didn't budge. And the cf/fiberglass doesn't have problems with the weather, but after dropping $600 for a custom one of a kind hood, I wouldn't dare let salt/snow/road dirt/etc get on my hood or nice clear coat. Of course my car is a garage queen anyway, but still I'm def very protective of the hood, that's all

 

Ok, got it yesterday and its not the quality that I was expecting, also it doesn't even come close to lining up around the passenger headlight (at the grill). What, if any, problems did yall have and as far as lining up around the whole thing how was it? Did the rear rubber bumpers fit? The hole is too small for the oem ones. I'll upload some pics in a bit if needed.

 

sorry to hijack the thread but I'm putting my hood on in couple days after getting a fresh coat of clear!!!

 

bout time lol

pics pleaz?

 

word pics.. although i just have to go outside =)

 

That sucks,they def don't seem to be the same quality of the original GB. Only problems I had was getting the windshield washer pissers and the grill holes drilled.

 

these hoods are weird. sometimes mine doesnt line up soo good and sometimes its perfect. its a day to day crapshoot.

 

I don't have an issue

 

yea but im not from the groupbuy

 

hey ghost post a pic of your hood. i wanna see the weave

 

i dont have any close ups. ill get one tommorow its starting to get dark.

 

iight kool!

 

ok heres what ive got not bad cept for around the pass. headlight can run your fingers under it on pass. side. figure itll lay down better over time. whats yalls thoughts? oh and btw these were takin with my phone besides the last one and this is my gf's car and its nasty in these pics.






and something we done a while back. broke the big trim around the a/c tryin to get the radio out. crack was ugly so we decided to fix it and paint it.
a buddy of mine is a painter and he fixed it all up for me.

 

gonna paint the grill some time in the future so disregard the faded black and blue metallics lol, or at least that what i think it was black originally.

 

Looks pretty straight to me, did you try adjusting it on the 4 bolts? It always takes me like a half hour of playin with it before it's straight. Gotta love CF on black

 

yeah i adjusted it all its really just that one part of the grill that doesnt line up. the grill was a pain in the ass to get mounted and i had to back off the top screws into the grill just to have some thread to run that nut on on the backside of the hood. could possibly be where her dad backed into her and maybe knocked somethin out but i doubt that cause it was on the driver side and we pulled it out. wasnt bad.

 

looks cool!!

 

yeah the grill is a giant pain in the ass, I cracked my hood trying to drill and install the damn grill

 

did yall put the rubber and hood liner in it? I went ahead and did to give it a some what factory look.

 

I didn't but I always wanted to