I agree, for the $500 a hood costs, you could do some worthwile mods,
like a cam swap. If you are worried about weight, gut the stock hood and
use pins, thats what I always do :) I guess some people are just tuners
and some are showman, to each his own.

Jay

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----- Original Message -----
From: Patrick Austin <[email protected]>
To: olivier cabanes <[email protected]>
Cc: a2_16v list <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 2:28 PM
Subject: Re: Carbon fiber vs cold weather


> An A2 isn't the safest car in the world anyway...adding a CF hood is
not
> going to make it safer.  The metal one is designed to crumple up very
> nicely.  The CF one will splinter and shatter and do all sorts of
pointy
> things that could cut you up and won't disipate energy.  IMHO, the
hood is
> WAY down the list of priorities.
>
> The cold shouldn't be such a big deal, though.  Carbon fiber is fine
at
> those temps.
>
> On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, olivier cabanes wrote:
>
> >
> > I was wondering if a carbon fiber hood would be ok up here in the
cold
> > and harsh canadian weather (-30degrees celsius). Is it resistant to
> > chips and cracks? or is it really fragile?
> >
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