Thinking of selling my hood and deck

You might think about keeping them. They might be worth their weight in gold if you decide to sell the car at a later date. Wilkinson is asking $4400 for the front and $3700 for the rear for new ones. Maybe half that for used? Sometimes hard to tell considering the small market we have. Does the rear have the ridge down the center?

Yeah, I have the ridge.

I would like to keep them, but need to sell for the changes. THanks for the input!

I have a 72 and I`m looking to do the same thing. Carbon hood, deck, wing. But i`m keeping my original parts, for when I sell sometime.

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I might be wrong but are carbon fiber hood and deck lid just carbon fiber over a fiberglass shell and not all carbon fiber?

Yes Mark, exactly.

Got the look, but not the weight savings or strength. They do look very nice, though; if that is the look you desire. Some schyster over in Europe took money from a USA buyer or two for true carbon fiber pieces, but nothing has been shipped and the guy has refused to refund. I am not aware of ANY true carbon fiber rear deck lids, front hood or wings/spoilers.

Larry

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Originally posted by Mark:
I might be wrong but are carbon fiber hood and deck lid just carbon fiber over a fiberglass shell and not all carbon fiber?

I've heard the same.

But is a glass/carbon fiber unit still lighter than a steel one?

Josh

Didn't I read in one of the Pantera magazines that some guy was going to make the parts out of real carbon fibre and he was going to sell the parts as soon as he gotten everything worked out. I thought the place was called Overkill or something like that. Anyone know anything? Did it fizzle out or are the parts coming soon? I think that he was building his own monster Pantera as was going to sell the parts that he had fabricated. Vince

Korina, you are correct in your reccollections. The guy you are thinking of is Ron Wade of "Serious Overkill". Ron's hood and deck lids are 100% carbon fiber. I have posted a pic of the hood in question.

Having made many carbon fiber parts, any that supply any kind of support will have only the top layer done in carbon fiber with anywhere from 2 to 4 back up layers of fiberglass. Otherwise the amount of epoxy that would have to be used would have to be very thick to give it any strength to stop flexing and cracking.

So yes Mark, you are correct.

But even still it would be much lighter than the current metal lids. I have a fiberglass front hood and it's at least 40+ pounds lighter that the metal one was. I can imagine having the rear one replaced with fiberglass would be at least 60+ pounds lighter than the current metal one....Which I intend to do sooner or later as well.

One thing I've learned from changing the front hood to fiberglass is make sure you try it on for fit before you buy it if at all possible. Which is also something I will do with the rear hood when I make the change over.

Also, when doing the front hood, you may need to add a couple of zous fastners on each side in the middle area of the front hood to stop it from bowing up at speed from air flow through the radiator.

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Originally posted by Mark:
I might be wrong but are carbon fiber hood and deck lid just carbon fiber over a fiberglass shell and not all carbon fiber?

Coz, The underside structure is made of the same carbon material as well. Attached is a pic of the hood taken during the required vacuum forming process.

...since I do not have access to my web page at the moment, attached is the underside after the process. I have since painted the hood body color (I wasn't after the "Rice Boy" look) as can be seen here about 2/3 down the page Italian Concours in a less than ideal shot.

Looking at the pictures you just posted, it looks like a fiber glass sheet on the backside being vaccum formed.
The second one just looks like it was painted black after.
Or is just painted over the carbon fiber meterial ?

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Originally posted by ParaPantera:
Coz, The underside structure is made of the same carbon material as well. Attached is a pic of the hood taken during the required vacuum forming process.

Does anyone know if Ron Wade or Serious Overkill has a website or some kind of promotional piece? Real carbon would be excellent. Vince

Vince,

I have Ron Wade's phone number. I'll look for it and post it for you a little later.

Michael

Vince,

360-892-1191

Ron is featured on page 40 of issue number 118, Spring 2004. He has a full page ad with both the carbon fiber hood and decklid on it on page 49 of the same issue. There he states that his parts do not have fiberglass cores.

He has prices of $1600 for the hood, and $2000 for the decklid.

Michael

Stands to reason for prices like that for them. Just a bit of over kill for hood and trunk lid's.

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There he states that his parts do not have fiberglass cores.

He has prices of $1600 for the hood, and $2000 for the decklid.

Michael