Hood vents...

[anyonebutme]

Forgot to add the link to buy a copy:

URS Hood Vent [G9687] - $150.00 : Chaser Aerodynamics, LLC.

[sergechronos]

When I tried it for myself I figured it out real quick and that was the end for me. I can pretty much make whatever. If I get stuck, I have a couple really good resources to call upon to help me out if need be.

Translation I'm getting out of this: Jeremy is going to have the first CF 3/S shell within a couple years.

[J. Fast]

Forgot to add the link to buy a copy:

URS Hood Vent [G9687] - $150.00 : Chaser Aerodynamics, LLC.

I wouldn't buy shit from that vendor! Worst trading experience, logistics, and customer service ever! I swear the main sales rep Mike is full of shit! Every time you call he changes his name. Haha, he even puts you on hold and transfers the phone to himself and answers as someone else. Holy shit that guys a used car salesman, lawyer, politician, fast talker type of asshat!

[ItchySTV]

Epoxy resin is 100% UV resistant. If you read my mounting post I mentioned I used structural epoxy resin to adhere and epoxy resin to add
more carbon. Urethanes yellow, epoxy resin does not.

If you want to make a carbon fiber parts strong and functional use epoxy. I use System Three. I've structurally improved every carbon fiber panel an exterior part that I purchased by adding structural plates with structural epoxy and refinished them with epoxy resin.

I'm getting pretty good with carbon fiber. Once I discovered how easy it was to add carbon fiber to something by just presanding, tack gauging, and brushing on epoxy resin I started going crazy ha.

A few of the guys on Facebook in the 3sgto group gave me DIY pointers on building and working on my own composite parts. When I tried it for myself I figured it out real quick and that was the end for me. I can pretty much make whatever. If I get stuck, I have a couple really good resources to call upon to help me out if need be.

Learn something new every day. Maybe it was just standard practice. When I would build parts for aircraft we would prime and paint all composite surfaces that would be exposed to UV because it would weaken over time whether carbon, aramid, fiberglass.
Once you learn the basics, composites are simple to work with. I love it, it's one thing that I miss doing.
So if you're familiar with working CF my thoughts for installing this on an OEM hood would be to use countersunk flush mount rivets and wet install the vent. This will give you a much cleaner look than button head or pop rivets.
If you go with a CF hood you can step-sand the hood and the vent and bond them together flush. This will make it as strong as if it were made like that from one piece. The only issue that I see with installing this on CF is that the pattern may not match up perfectly.
Regardless of which way you go, vacuum bag for best results.

[dpartinvr4]

subb'd

[J. Fast]

Finally arrived today. Sat in customs for the last two weeks.

I dig it!



Here's a couple of mockups...

[J. Fast]

Close-up so you can see the carbon weave. It's 100% carbon fiber! I was quite surprised about that being that I bought it on Ebay and it came from China.

[2fnloud]

Awesome!

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[DK77]

Interested in seeing how this turns out. If you can do it with a OEM hood, I may look into having you put one on mine and then just getting it painted, otherwise it sounds like a good excuse for me to get a CF hood like I've been considering LOL

[Disrupter]

Looks awesome! Please take plenty of pictures during the process. I would love to use the OEM hood since I have already done the evil eye mod. Will be going this route if it doesn't look out of place.