To you carbonfiber hood guys.

[IMMORTALSPYDER]

I'm just wondering if any of you guys transferred over your under hood insulator to your C/F hood?

 

[L2RTSiAWD]

Which insulator are you talking about?

The wetherstripping along the front of the hood? If so the VIS hood has openings for and I got another one from the dealer and it fit great.

 

[mitsutunerwh]

no man hes talking about the insulator not the rubber gaskit. the thing that looks like dynamat (tin foil)
and yes you can transfer it just be careful you dont do any permanent damage to it. Its best to just buy some new insulation and sell your old hood with it on it. The resell is more. Also you dont really need it the carbon wont warp or anything.

good luck

 

[Flash]

When I was looking to buy an overpriced 2g GSX, the salesman said it's for when there's a fire. The palstic tabs melt off and the dynamat thing falls onto the fire and the fire sufficates. He could be wrong though, made sense to me at the time.

 

[L2RTSiAWD]

Oh ok I understand what your talking about now, no I didn't transfer that to my CF hood.

 

[igs]

Originally posted by Flash
When I was looking to buy an overpriced 2g GSX, the salesman said it's for when there's a fire. The palstic tabs melt off and the dynamat thing falls onto the fire and the fire sufficates. He could be wrong though, made sense to me at the time.

He is wrong. Think about it. How can that thing suffocate a fire.

 

[bOOstd GSX]

, a car salesman will say anything just to get you to buy something.

 

[V8BWARE]

it's there to prevent heat from damaging the paint on your hood, not much point to it if your hood isnt painted.

 

[lowridin2g]

When I was looking to buy an overpriced 2g GSX, the salesman said it's for when there's a fire. The palstic tabs melt off and the dynamat thing falls onto the fire and the fire sufficates. He could be wrong though, made sense to me at the time.

im %99 sure hes absolutely correct

 

[DSMJim]

The FSM says its for heat, but I have also been told by people who work for the Honda assembly plant here in Ontario that the covering under the hood is to smother a fire. It takes away the 2" of air space under the hood. Generally most cars fuel system and injectors are very close to the top and it could do that. Others argued and said that is not what it was for.

I do know the material is non-flamable and could smother a fire if dropped onto it, however we have yet to find proof that is 100% one way or another.

 

[dsmturboawd]

Originally posted by Flash
When I was looking to buy an overpriced 2g GSX, the salesman said it's for when there's a fire. The palstic tabs melt off and the dynamat thing falls onto the fire and the fire sufficates. He could be wrong though, made sense to me at the time.

this is the most rediclous thing ever. its so the hood doesnt get hella hot and the paint doesnt get messed up and etc. you really thing thats going to put out an engine fire. come on.

 

[igs]

Go and count the number of plastic tabs holding that thing up and look at where they are located. You're telling me the fire needs to burn off every single tab before it can drop onto the fire? Please. Come on people this is getting out of hand.

 

[PaulPDX]

Idiocy begets idiocy... someone should start a automotive urban legends site so stuff like this doesn't have to get rehashed every single time.

If the salesmen told you that you need to buy some exhaust bearings with the car at an additional cost to make the exhaust flow better would you do it?

Ever try to start a fire in a fireplace or at a camp site? fire burns upward. The updraft pulls fresh air (Oxygen) upward to feed the fire. Deny the fire that source of oxygen from bellow and the fire weakens or dies. Look at the car. Look at how much space there is under the engine bay. Do you really think that insulator is going to smother the fire and deny the fire a source of oxygen? C'mon... it doesn't take a high school diploma to figure it out.

 

[bOOstd GSX]

Very well put. Like I said before, a car salesman will telly ou anything to buy a car.

 

[ninjai_ruken]

My Vis CFH does not transfer heat hardly at all. I can run the pis out of my car racing on a Friday night, go put my hand on the hood and its just a little warm not like the OEM hood used to get. I have the Xtreme Carbon Fiber hood with the dual reverse vents wich prob helps vent alot of heat

 

[IMMORTALSPYDER]

Cool guys thanks.

 

[PaulPDX]

CF does not retain heat. That's why it is used for intake manifolds and scoops on hi-tech race applications like F1 or LeMans. It's also the same reason it's used on mufflers for sport and reace bikes... being light is another reason.

 

[dsmturboawd]

id say being light and looks is usually the entire reason unless its a ferrari enzo or something.

 

[lowridin2g]

My Vis CFH does not transfer heat hardly at all. I can run the pis out of my car racing on a Friday night, go put my hand on the hood and its just a little warm not like the OEM hood used to get. I have the Xtreme Carbon Fiber hood with the dual reverse vents wich prob helps vent alot of heat

your non turbo also runs about 20 degrees cooler than us turbo guys do

 

[EclipseGST-95]

it says in my chilton repair manual that the "fire putter outer" is actually a "hood silencer" whatever that means but i always thought it reflected the heat cus it has foil on it...i dunno for sure but im sure it doesnt really matter....and if it does the people who sold u ur CFH should tell u whether to switch it to ur new hood or not...

 

[Defiant]

Originally posted by Flash
When I was looking to buy an overpriced 2g GSX, the salesman said it's for when there's a fire.

Complete myth. Someone's burned last summer, he'd posted pictures. No sign of the reflector/insulator. The tinfoil on that thing burns fine once it gets started.

But, like any good myth, it's impossible to kill.

I'm about to close a deal on a Vette for $200, just because some guy died in it.

My $25 Jaguar that I got off the jilted wife still runs like a watch.

Oh, and study hard and work well, and you'll be rewarded.

 

[Wildflyer897]

maybe its there to make a bad paint job look better????


and how much is a stock style CF hood going to run me?

 

[IMMORTALSPYDER]

Make sure you can afford the shipping- http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2461548084&category=6755

 

[mitsutunerwh]

dont buy your carbon fiber from there you can get it for 400 shipped from andys auto sport its safer and its VIS

http://www.andysautosport.com/mitsubishi/95_99eclipsehood.html

 

[IMMORTALSPYDER]

They're price doesn't include shipping. I just checked their shipping and it's $156 to MD