danvan1

Anyone out there no where i could get a reasonably priced lightweight hood for my 96 roadster,it is a race car so no headlights needed any help would be apprecated
tks

C&M Racing

If you take all of the bracing off the stock hood it becomes a lot lighter and the cost is labor. I use a heat gun.

Kubs

I am cutting out the bracing under my hood in order to lighten it. I also used some fiberglass to cover the holes where the headlights were.

Aardwolf

In the C4 gen sticky topic about weights I posted several hoods, five IIRC.

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c4-g...-and-info.html

RacePro Engineering

Hi Andrew,

I have been watching this thread with interest, and greatly appreciate your link to the various weights of C4 hoods. I certainly do not wish to take Dan's thread off track, but do you recall if your weight of the 1988 pure stock hood "with everything" included the headlights and their motors? This could be of general interest here.

Thanks,
Ed LoPresti

Zip Corvettes

Performance AFX makes them. They have the molds and you go either fiberglass or carbon. They go by Vector Vette on the forum, just pm him.

Aardwolf

Ed, with everything is with the lights, even the hood prop. I bought an inexpensive bathroom scale from Walmart to keep in the shop. I'm still working on lightening the car and will have an end weight for the hood with some of the bottom structure removed.

The Panther

What exactly is being removed to lighten the stock hood?