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Quote (Yoshi @ April 24 2002,10:15)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I think it was one of the deleted posts yesterday? but there was an agruement about the relative strength of CF hoods actually being negative....
Take this situation:
on a 2 lane highway, the car coming towards you from the opposite direction loses control and swerves into your lane... you both hit the brakes, but the collision is still the equivalent of a 40mph head-on.
Now as stock steel hood is designed with crumple areas in mind... a CF hood is designed to be as structurally sound... so rather than folding in half, or thirds and slamming into the windshield borders, the CF hood breaks off the hinges and shoots more or less straight back toward the driver. Instant decapitation. I think the last post actually listed some instances where this happened (I think).
Sounds pretty scary to me, I'll being going fiberglass thanks <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='
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In theory, this could happen. If you think about it though, do to the slant in the windshield it will most likely go up and over the windsheild. Do not sit on a CF hood cause it will break. It has lots of strengths, and lots of weaknesses. In a collision it would most likely shatter.