# Carbon Fiber

**URL:** <https://forums.speedlife.net/t/carbon-fiber/19556>\
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\
**Created:** [November 1, 2006, 11:27am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/carbon-fiber/19556 "2006-11-01T11:27:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 6

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![double\_j](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/double_j/32/7380_2.png) [@double\_j](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/double_j)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2006, 11:54am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/carbon-fiber/19556/6 "2006-11-01T11:54:51Z")

</div>

> [@sedlmeier101](#):
>
> so i suppose any wrx owner who has a carbon fiber hood…is a ricer? seeing as how their hoods are made of alluminum which weights about the same as carbon fiber.

That I consider to be total “rice” or just a really shallow display of wealth.

I do like weight savings, but dislike the fact that people justify not painting it to show it off. Non-painted CF body panels are hideous IMO, unless every panel on the car is CF.

---

_[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/carbon-fiber/19556)._