...what no flat hood for the 2nd gen...what kind of time frame are we looking at for the second gen items to be ready?also are you gonna run a smaller cowl on your second gen? i wonder how the one jason put on ther looks from the driver seat

pics
 

OK, I took some pictures of the prototypes of the first gen deck lid and spoiler: carbon fiber dek lid and spoiler

They still need some little tweaks before I go into production, but you can get an idea of what we are doing. We took a stock '69 spoiler and removed the riser portion on the bottom that is about a 1/4" tall and is slightly indented from the edge. This serves to mask a sloppy fit for production cars. We hope to have a more accurate fit, thus eliminating the need for this while dropping the leading edge down right against the deck so there's no gap. It also provides a tighter fit to top of the rear fenders, so it will come with a gasket to seal it and cushion the ends when closing the lid. Because it's lower, we had to add to the outside ends to match the fender when looking at the back of the car. There was a lot of finessing to get it to look right. Because the elimination of the riser didn't leave enough "meat" at the leading edge for the studs, we made up for it by adding 4 teardrop shapes at the stud locations. So, we have a custom cf spoiler that retains the overall shape of the original. The deck lid has a carbon fiber top and fiberglass lower portion. We plan to do 100% cf on this too. The photo of the top looks like it's real bulbous, but that is an optical illusion caused by some reflections. It acutally fits better than the original because we closed the gaps all the way around to be even.
I would love to hear feedback!

MaTT
ANVil

2nd gen
 

I think we will do a flat hood first for the second gen with optional hood vents of different styles. I think the cowl induction on the second gen doesn't quite match the styling of the rest of the car which is very curvaceous. I'm actually quite surprised, though, that the view from inside the car with a 4" cowl hood isn't bad. It doesn't block the view like you think it would. It's a bit over the top for me, so we are designing a custom hood based on the original stock hood. As far as timing goes, it will be a few months before we see production, but hey, winter is near and Christmas is coming!

MaTT
ANVil

That looks killer Matt. Just kick ass. I didn't know you had a trucklid done. :thumbsup:

Matt,
How does your 1st Gen 2inch CI hood fit compared to the aftermarket metal ones? Similar? I test fitted a metal one to my car and it fit pretty decent. However, I bought a Harwood bolt on fiberglass hood that fit like crap. Stuck up way to high no matter how many adjustments I made on the DSE hinges. I now have a $450 shop table.

Additionally, when will your Full CF 2inch cowl 1st gen bolt on hood that has a smooth underside w/o the frame be ready?

I am ready now to pull the trigger on a full CF cowl panel and the hood I mentioned above. I can get to a satellite phone ( I am currently on the Syrian Border) before the 30th if you think you will have one of the above mentioned hoods ready in the near future. ( car was going to paint soon until we test fitted that shiny turd made by Harwood. My old man is still trying to keep shop date if we can)

Props on the new site. Looks slick.

Thanks for your time.
Jim

Looking great:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Would be cool to have the entire front in CF. Fenders, innerfenders, cowl hood, cowl panel and so on.
Would be cool to have CF-doors as well. Imagine a -68 Camaro with Cf front with spoiler, CF-decklid with spoiler and CF-doors.
Any plans on this?

Friendly pricing!!!!! :cheers:

Such great products. Have you thought about a rear deck lid with the spoiler integrated into a one piece item? Maybe also, a more aggressive rear spoiler?

I was thinking the same thing, and taking Steve's idea of intergrading a 3rd light into it, but the stuff looks great as is as well.

"Bare" cowl induction hood
 

Jim,

I salute you brother! It's good to hear from American heros!
I can't give an exact date when production "bare" cf hoods will be ready, but it won't be for a couple months. I haven't figured out pricing yet, but I'll probably have an introductory price on it for a month before I have production parts as a pre order incentive. Stay tuned! If you are in a hurry, you can buy one of our Carbon/fiberglass hoods and modify the underside if you know how to use fiberglass. Then you just paint the underside black to match.
To make our hood, we took a steel hood and teaked it until it fit my '69 perfectly. I had to actually jump up and down on the edge to take the bow out of it! Once fitting properly, we blocked it and filled in the spot welds and seams on the sides. Once finished, this was used as a pattern for molds. The cf molded hood fits as well as our pattern which is better than a steel hood and much better than most fiberglass ones I've seen. A molded hood whether it's fiberglass or carbon fiber is a little tricky because it's plastic which can be effected by heat and it's spreading over a large area with hinge springs tugging at it. That is why you need to use light weight hinge springs and hood pins are always a good idea for safety. We are working on some custom hood pin/latches by the way.

Best of luck and God bless!
MaTT
ANVil :bow: