CF hood for E36

[defkon99]

Originally Posted by xsperf

yea its canadian but still too much

oh very much. Thats a rape

[catalyst]

I was able to get 17's mounted and balanced with new tires all for 730 bucks.

That includes shipping on the rims and the new tires from tirerack.

[94bmw325i]

$300 for a cf hood? That is so cheap, most of the "decent" ones I see are at least $450 w/out shipping. You have a link to the person that made that group buy, or however you got it?

I think like most people are saying, get some rims first, or intake,exhaust, and a chip. That's pretty much what I am doing.

[catalyst]

Originally Posted by 94bmw325i

$300 for a cf hood? That is so cheap, most of the "decent" ones I see are at least $450 w/out shipping. You have a link to the person that made that group buy, or however you got it?

I think like most people are saying, get some rims first, or intake,exhaust, and a chip. That's pretty much what I am doing.

It was probably a used hood. As long as its not damaged theres no reason not to buy one used.. its not like a used suspension or something.

[delmarco]

CF hoods are as cheap as $300. I've seen't 'em on Ebay.

Death2000, I don't see a CF hood on a E36 sedan. I looks better on coupes IMO.
E36 Sedans just aren't as sporty looking as an E36 coupe and the sedan would'nt pull it off the same way...

for $800 get bumpers and rims first...I would say...I think a CF hood would be the last thing on any list of mods I would have...
in fact it was one of the last thing Deloriant did to his car.

[komodo]

^^ Yeah, but I also wouldn't trust the quality of the carbon fiber weave of a hood off ebay either...

[Storamin]

you have to remember he has to pay duties and tax on the CF hood.

[DEATH2000]

Originally Posted by B_w.

i woul not get the hood. there are a lot of better things you could do with that money. with 850 you could get some nice zkw's or other projectors, a good proportion towards new wheels, sharki injector w. m50 intake manifold, exhaust, intake ect. if your car is not that done up on the outside a cf hood might look a little out of place.

dude i cant get ALL that for $850 CDN. And i already have ZKW's. exhuast should be coming soon, hope fully when my $400 government rebate check comes in.

[Chris]

government rebate check? whats that? is it like tax returns here in the SU?

[DEATH2000]

nope, even better. The alberta goverment has a surplus thanks to the huhe increase in gas prices. The surplus is expected to top $7 billion soon so there giveing EVERY resident or person born in alberta in 2005 a check for $400 CDN

[komodo]

Originally Posted by DEATH2000

nope, even better. The alberta goverment has a surplus thanks to the huhe increase in gas prices. The surplus is expected to top $7 billion soon so there giveing EVERY resident or person born in alberta in 2005 a check for $400 CDN

Whoa!!! That's insane. Not fair.

The US never does stuff like that. They just take our money.

[DEATH2000]

they never do that kinda stuff cause the US starts stuff like Iraq and has billion dolar hurricane damage. Plus the province of alberta makes more oil than half the conntinental US. and theirs only like 10 million people in alberta

[B_w.]

$400 "prosperity bonus" is the governments brilliant idea of how to spend what is now estimated 9 billion dollar surplus. not that i am complaining about getting a $400 cheque but i think there are a lot better ways to spend that money. this is one of the typical stupid decisions that our government formulates over lunch break

[xsperf]

haha im moving, end of story

[Longhairedhippy]

the CF hoods you see on ebay are crap. the edge is cut, rather than rolled. a rolled edge doesn't run the risk of damaging your paint, and is less likely to fray over time. i'd rather pay the $750 plus shipping and get a ViS hood.