How Much Weight Will I Save With a Carbon Hood

Obviously the amount of weight you will save by installing a Carbon Hood depends on a variety of different things. The typical Carbon Hood weighs around 12 pounds although they can be as light as 8 pounds if your car model has a small hood.

The biggest determinant of how much weight you will save is the weight of the factory hood. Some factory hoods weight as much as 100 pounds, switching to a lightweight Carbon Hood that weighs 12 pounds will save you an enourmous 88 pounds of dead weight. Of course most hoods are not theis heavy, typically weighing in at around 50 pounds meaning that there is ardoun 40 pounds of weight to be saved. It also is dependant of what type of Carbon Hood you have, see Types of Carbon Hoods for more details.

If you comine a carbon hood with a carbon trunk and fenders you can expect to save much more weight, most cars will probably save around 100lbs by installing this modifications but in some models 200lbs is definately achievable. The next step would be to add carbon doors, which shilst the most effective will also probably save you the most weight, often easily saving 100lbs of their own.