Carbon Bonnets

[Turbz_13]

gday guys, im looking for carbon fiber bonnet to suit my r32 and was just wondering where about sell them in adelaide and how much for. and who knows what the deal is with them. ie. are they defectable?

cheers James

[benny_blanco]

I got told they were defectable from a mate. but if you paint it who is gonna know

[MoogLe]

man,

cf hoods for skylines are crazy expensive!

i want one badly but those prices sure make me think twice

[cruzin33]

I got my silver E shape c/f bonnet from autobarn up south for my r33 it cost me 1300 with a 3 day wait for it to turn up from jet speed in qld.Also dont go to autobarn at mile end as they dont have insurance on products when you order them.

[GRIM_R32]

I got my carbon fibre bonnet from speed dreams and paid about $1250 from memory. Technically they are illegal from any police point of view, altho you will have less troubles if you make sure that none of the vents are forward facing, cos that for sure is illegal according to regency, which of course is crap consider our locally made coonadore is made with twin forward facing vents....go figure!

[Turbz_13]

i thought that they were only illegal if the outside edges of the bonnet wasnt wider than the a-pillars, so in a crash if the bonnet is pushed back they slide up the a-pillars insted of going through the window and doing a bad things to the driver. wrx's have forward facing scoops to?? wtf. but i thought that it was rear facing vents were illigeal for the reason if oil spits up and out it will go over the window. i dont car i just want a nice 1! the look tuf!

[Bl4cK32]

They are illegal due to something to do with the factor of them in a crash.

Vents are illegal if they chop the panel reinforcing inner, if they dont they must have mesh fitted to stop fingers going in. They can face anyway.

Cops will defect on sight, regardless if they are illegal or not. Painting them is a waste as the wank factor of having a cf is to show it off in the first place.

The r32 gtr bonnet weighs the same anyway, and is aluminium as u know.

The best place to get one is to stand outside regency and wait for someone to come through whose sick of being defected and wants to get rid of it fast. How many cars do u see normally driving around with one? Theres a reason

[32 4whore]

As Bl4ck32 said.

In an accident they shatter and can/ will go through the windscreen slicing anything in it's path.

Get a GTR bonnet. and if u really want the CF look get the contact that andrew got for his interior and roll it all over the gtr bonnet.

There ya go lightweight gtr bonnet with wank factor of the cf contact. HAHAHAH best of both worlds.

[GRIM_R32]

A carbon fibre bonnet doesnt have any suports to cut as its a one peice mould, your more refering to putting a vent onto an existing bonnet.

Either way, before i bought my bonnet i rang regency and the basic explanation i got was that any vents should be made of the same material as the bonnet and that you couldnt have any forward facing vents. I told them i was looking at a carbon fibre bonnet and no comment was made to the bonnet being illegal, they did however mention bonnet pins being illegal, so you have to buy a bonnet with the correct catch moulded in.

Just what i got told, not saying its gospel, if you ring regency it seems to depend on who you get to speak to as to what answer you get!

[Bl4cK32]

A carbon fibre bonnet doesnt have any suports to cut as its a one peice mould, your more refering to putting a vent onto an existing bonnet.

thats what i was referring to.

I told them i was looking at a carbon fibre bonnet and no comment was made to the bonnet being illegal

Take that as being illegal.

[Rekin]

Arent CF bonnets legal for cars before 1993? There was a discussion on SAU a while ago about this. Which meant that r32's where able to have CF bonnets.

If in doubt, just keep your old bonnet and just swap over if you get defected?