Hood protector for less than $50

[Wife bought my 24 TRD]

If you get carbon fiber in a hood or body panel, then be prepared for oddball gaps in fitment along the edges. CF are handmade things sometimes looking like a third grader made them. The spacing will be weird out of the box. Also FYSA, ditch lights are heavy enough that they might cause it to crack. I would talk to a body shop expert before heading down the CF path.

Check out YouTube videos of the Seibon CF hoods. If they fit good enough to go to SEMA then they must be, laser measured and prepared.
Pipe dream, I just can't stop thinking about it. That must money will be put into what's under the hood first. ( Intercooler, new pipes Turbo, ect )

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[lauren01]

Check out YouTube videos of the Seibon CF hoods. If they fit good enough to go to SEMA then they must be, laser measured and prepared.
Pipe dream, I just can't stop thinking about it. That must money will be put into what's under the hood first. ( Intercooler, new pipes Turbo, ect )

For a show car, the maker will take the production item and obsessively shape it until they’re happy that fitment is nice and straight. I’m thinking that they took it on and off the car in stages to get it right over a period of weeks.

 

[Will721]

Look, just because it went to Sema doesn't mean anything. Infact that's one of the main reasons they closed to the public and went to "press only". The vast majority of "builds" are incomplete, hacked together and frankly hot garbage. Memes have started there, with social media guys having gotten passes for the sole purpose of counting the number of missing driveshafts, fab guys pointing out awful welds, performance channels pointing out non running incomplete engines, ect. ect.


You can watch tons of videos on the subject. Some of them hours long just pointing out the junk that gets dragged in there, shined up, like lipstick on a pig. One of the hottest topics of last year was this Miata:


Looks like twin turbo lambo swap, actually just an LS with random parts tossed on it. Guys were trying to get the "builder" to take the hood off so they could see if the engine itself was even bolted in or just sitting there.

 

[Slappy]

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Husky $80.oo
a year old since I had it installed
very Happy with the protector

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