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Im looking to get a carbon fibre hood for my r33 and was wondering if anyone knew if i can get them in Melbourne?? otherwise I'll have to pay freight to get it from Sydney or somewhere.....

also....can you buy genuine carbon hood?where from? or just the typical ones that the top layer is carbon but the underside is all fibreglass and reinforced plastic???

any help would be appretiated

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I'm currently in the process of buying one as well...though a Fibreglass version.

This is the guys email address:

[email protected]

Seems to be a nice guy......latest that I've heard from him is that he's waiting for the original bonnet to come from Japan

I have had a Carbon top/ fibre glass bottom bonnet for a couple of months now got it through www.nismo.com.au The only problem I have had is with the cops, they don't care about the fibre glass type but they have told me that the true carbon bonnets dont pass ADR standards - I don't know my self but they didn't have a problem with mine once it was proved that it was a fibre glass base.

I think that there may have been some other threads about this as well.

Good luck I think they look great !!!

Guys, give Adam a PM, I'm not sure if it's finalised yet, but he has been working a number of Dry carbon fibre projects, one of them being geuine dry carbon fibre bonnets at very cheap prices, maybe a tad more than you would pay for fibreglass copies.. supahiro27

If you want, maybe tell him Simon told you about them..

the only problem with the ones from www.carmate.com or www.nismo.com.au is they only have one type for series 1.....which isn't to my likeing. So far i found a place called viva garage in Perth of all places that i sent a few pictures to of the types I'm looking for for a series 1 an they said "no problem....we can get them, just let us know when"....but the cost of the hoods are $1295 (carbon top, fibreglass under), then i guess you'd have to add freight...

so the search continues for now....but if i cant find what i want then i'll pay the extra an get it from there.

I'm currently in the process of buying one as well...though a Fibreglass version.

This is the guys email address:

[email protected]

Seems to be a nice guy......latest that I've heard from him is that he's waiting for the original bonnet to come from Japan

Did you contact this guy?????

where are you located? I want to get one for my car, are you able to custom made carbon fibre bonnets?

I am in melbourne ...I will be doing a thread on both wet and dry carbon products as soon as i get some spare time....It would be interesting for you all to see how its done,how much work goes into it and more importantly how much it actually costs.I may not be covering the moulding process but that depends on if i can find anything else that i would like to mould as i have already made the moulds and i didnt take any pics....look out for it in the future

Cheers

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