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Old 06-13-02, 09:21 AM
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anyone know where I can get a good quality carbon fiber hood for the GS, and if I do use a CF hood do I have to use hood pins or I can skip that ?
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I'm pretty sure you don't need hood pins. As for a good quality one, I'm not into them much so I can't help you with that.
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I got one for sale...just PM if you are interested. As for hood pins, the one I'm selling does have them and that's cuz of the safety factor (don't want that light weight hood to be flyin off when you are goin 80+ mph). Remember, you dont have the shockes holding it down anymore. Let me know if you are interested.
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Contact Steve Ganz @ Carson. The last I talked to him he was talking to a distributor from japan who has a hood and he was inspecting the quality of these hoods. I wonder if he got good feedback or not.

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Hey Biggie, the hood pins are mandatory.....this guy with an IS300 didn't put the pins on and his hood flew right off. Better safe than sorry.

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Old 06-14-02, 04:20 AM
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i got a new carbon hood this week, fits real well! its from carbonshop.



oh ya and a veilside front bumper thats not painted right yet either
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Originally posted by LexusRules
i got a new carbon hood this week, fits real well! its from carbonshop.



oh ya and a veilside front bumper thats not painted right yet either
LOL, Sasha, who are you kidding ??
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i spose that intercooler inside your veilside bumper you got from TurboChop. right?
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Martin. I'll take your CF hood
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hehehe

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sasha you need to chrome your grill, and take that fish net off your hood :P
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