Who Likes Carbon Fiber?

[crxlvr]

i know all ya;; be drooling over this hot piece, but one girl in particualr will buy it for sure.

B16A Carbon Fiber Valve Cover




heres the link

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...category=33627

[BLU CIVIC]

i believe everyone likes carbon fibre...i know i do....just can't readily afford it

[Civic Jim]

Does anyone know where I can get a nice valve cover for my D16A9 cheers in advance

[BLU CIVIC]

Originally posted by civic 16valver
Does anyone know where I can get a nice valve cover for my D16A9 cheers in advance

what does this have to do with liking carbon fibre

[Civic Jim]

its on the rocker cover pictured above innit

But i do like carbon especially bonnets

[civic1784]

Originally posted by crxlvr

Carbon fiber - Hoods: Yes; Body panels: Yes; Wings: Yes; Valve cover: NOOOOO.

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that's the ugliest valvecover ever manufactured.

[VelocityCivic91]

Where did you find that pic, what company produces that vavle cover, and how much is it. I think valve cover is badass!!! Would love to buy it if it is not too expensive. By the way... how well do you think that carbon fiber valve cover will hold up to the temperatures of the motor? Isnt carbonfiber put with fiberglass? Wont it "melt" or something? Or is it just for show? Just wondering. :flash:

[Marc-OS]

Retail value on a carbon fiber valve cover is $800-900.

[amy@af]

Originally posted by crxlvr
i know all ya;; be drooling over this hot piece, but one girl in particualr will buy it for sure.

not me. okay, it is me.

no carbon fiber won't melt. some cf can't hang. i have a civic cf emblem on my hood. it melted. not the emblem but the resin they used has slowly melted away. however, they do make high temp resistant cf. my intake has not received any damage from heat. i have seen some other hand laid CF on valve covers. they stood up to the heat.

[mellowboy]

Yeh they are pretty expensive. They do not melt from what i've read. Who cares if its ugly. I'd do anything to lose some weight on my car!

[civic1784]

Originally posted by VelocityCivic91
By the way... how well do you think that carbon fiber valve cover will hold up to the temperatures of the motor? Isnt carbonfiber put with fiberglass? Wont it "melt" or something? Or is it just for show? Just wondering.

1. Carbon Fiber handles head very well.
2. Carbon fiber and fiberglass are similar in that they are made of sheets of wooven fibers and then hardened with resin. Correct me if I am wrong, but the fiberglass cloth is threads of a silica compound (thus the name "glass"). Carbon fiber is carbon, obviously.
3. As far as show or not, carbon fiber is very light weight, and it is what Fomula1 race car bodys are made of. It has a high tensile strength, and being light weight, you could claim it was for performance minded weight reduction. On the other hand, it looks cool.

[Melt]

CF valve cover, now ive seen everything ..

[amy@af]

i almost forgot.....CF hoods! that is a great example of CF not melting under high heat. position it wrong under the hot sun and it will possibly warp shape....but it won't melt.

[90civicrider]

I love that valve cover! If I only had a B16 i would buy it

[Tony]

Yea, i wish I had some money....well also a B16 would help....but damn that is a lot of money for a valve cover, 800 bucks(i know yours isn't selling for that high).

Correct if I'm wrong, which I probably am, but won't that fit on any B series engine? or just the B16? well any B series VTEC...Like I said, I'm probably wrong, but oh well.