yeah. i understand the connection but CF has a purpose.

 

now adays whether you like it or not people not only use it to shave weight off their car, they use it for looks. I could care less if my car weighed 4 pounds less. I drive my car twice a week, and to be honest with you I think it looks f#ckin badass. Blame the ricer honda boys with mixmatched unpainted primered body kits that kill it.

 

no doubt. i didn't mean to imply any hate on your car. i prefer my car to stay black though.

 

I'm being a dick because the OEM hood is obviously not CF, do you even know OEM stands for?

 

oem stands for "Otters Eating Mangos"

 

Yeah you have to be careful around here. There are lots of sharks in these here forums. Yarrr! What the problem was that you weren't clear with what you wanted to know in your original post. It does look like you are trying to get a CF hood made by Mazda (OEM) when in reality you just wanted to know what one would weigh that had the same dimensions of an OEM hood. And like I said earlier, the weight, I was told once, between a aluminum hood and a CF hood is negligable in difference. Meaning that the only purpose for a CF hood on an RX-8 is for aesthetic value and does not do much to reduce weight.

 

I understand the OEM hood doesn't have any CF. By OEM I mean a hood that looks like the OEM hood. As explained many times in this thread.

 

Thanks. I thought I saw somewhere that the wait of the original hood was 25 pounds. I went back and looked again and it's actually 15. I didn't figure it was so lite.

 

Yeah it's pretty light. I wonder if they are counting in the insulative material on the bottom of the hood though? But that material wouldn't make a 10 pound difference I don't think.

 

For what its worth I understood your question from the start. There are a couple guys here on the forums with the hood you are looking for as you can see but if you plan on painting it, it isnt worth the money spent. I like that you wanted to stay with the oem look though. Our stock hoods kick ***

 

red+cf = kick ***
silver +cf = kick ***
white + cf = sorta kick ***

all other colors will look lame and useless.

 

Black + CF hood looks pretty cool also

 

Agreed with the red + cf..haha

 

I guess it boils down to colour matching and some decals decor which is the way to go if you want the 2F2F looks = mean & fierce. Anotherwise keep it stock with minor changes if you like classic sport looks.

 

Btw XDEEDUBBX, i love your choice of Rim - Volk TE37. What is you offset?

 

thanks shinka..go to this link https://www.rx8club.com/rx-8-multimedia-photo-gallery-6/deedubbs-new-wheels-%3D-88173/ for further info about the wheels.

 

TE37 looks sweeeeeeeet! I need to know how $$$$$ much they came to?

 

Lets just say that at retail price plus tires would have been a little over 4k. On top of that, volks just went up in price, and an extra $50 a wheel.. =X .....

 

But he didn't pay anything because they are stolen.....LOL.....joke!

 

shut up wurmfist! The fed's roam these boards as well *carefully stashes away my dubb sack in my shoe*