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the bonnet has nothing to do with crumple zones or any accident stuff it is just a lid to stop water getting on your motor so you may change it for carbon or fibreglass... providing it doesn't have any 'protrusions' like vents etc that may stop a pedestrian from rolling over the bonnet in the case of an accident

this is what I have been told by someone who does roadworthies for a living... but I can still imagine you copping grief from the boys in blue... depending on where you live

but saying that....www.carmate.com sell them and im sure most if not all bodykit places would sell them

If you read http://www.carmate.com/termcondition.php about 2/3's of the way down there is a line saying:

All parts forsale at Carmate are recommanded for Show Conditions, not for Legal Street Used purposes.

Just because they sell them on their websites doesnt make them legal for street use.

As far as i know carbon bonnets are 100% illegal for street use. There are no ADR approved ones available as of yet but that may have changed recently.

I'm confused.. doesn't the r34 gtr vspec 2 comes with carbon fibre bonnet? Does that also makes them illegal on the street even though its from factory?

Could possibly be that they are illegal in australia, even though its from factory but when going through compliance to make it Australian standard, a aluminium one is put on and then replaced after registeration.

Anything factory is almost always fine, look at all the exotics going around with their factory loud exhausts.

The reasoning is that its all engineered correctly unlike some cheap carmate one

Edited by Yawn

If you're in QLD, I can personally vouch that carbon bonnets are illegal as I got done twice in 8 days...

However, you can definitely get some aftermarket bonnets engineered... Carbon fibre ones can be engineered but they have to be sent away for crash testing so if you want it engineered you have to get two... Expensive and not worth it considering the fine is only 1pt and 75$.

just dont drive like a hoon and u wont get pulled over as much n they mite leave u alone.

i got screamer n loud exhuast n bells n whistles here and there n if a cop is next to me i smile and drive normally.

its all ya gotta do but i understand they have bad days too.

but yeh carbon is definately illegal coz if u have a head on the bonnet doesnt bend it stays as one and can push bak through the windscreeen and behead with you lol

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