Do all the hoods come from a 1g underside and just get slap with a 2g top side?? Its this with just the TS hood or all hoods?? (it seems they all are) including a "higher end" hood brand for our car.

Why is the underside so bland???(keep cost down??) Why is there so many spots where the top and bottom pieces are not even making contact?? (AKA weak spots and easy to come apart). Shouldn't the area around the hinges be more reinforced?? Also whats with the weak latch?? you can very easy bend the mounting plate on it and it rusts easy.

Really $665 shipped for that and $970 in CF??? I would expect that quality from a cheap ass EBAY hood that was half the price. I'm glad I didn't pay full price for the hood. Don't get me wrong I love the outside look of it but quality wise its sad.

I don't know if people are just nice to him or they just don't want to talk bad about his products in another forum that he ''makes" or "resales" but I'm very very disappointed. Also this is coming from someone that thought good about his products.

Sorry for not having an intro thread and just asking all this. I mostly just read the forums here and know just a few of the members here.

deft racing hoods are all made in china and are all built in the same craptory the chinabay hoods are.

This are the mounting plates I'm talking about. They are as thick as the clamps people use to hold their air filters with and are held whit some tiny rivet looking things.


According to some info I got the rivets are there since it was one of the first TS hoods made and need it to have the latch moved to make it close. So anyone with with this hood that bought it when they just came out might want to check what version they have.

if my hood looked like that i would return the piece of shit.

that's awful. they didn't even bother painting the metal for rust prevention.

Its a used hood i got for cheap. It flew off because of the latch and no hood pins.



Or used a ticker piece of metal to prevent bending and eventually breaking off the fiberglass, even when the area was reinforced before by one of the previous owners.

i have had 3 diff 575's on my cars...never had a problem.

Its the gap by the driver side headlight where the bumper and hood meet common?? I have seen it in a number of cars.

thats all about just lining up the rubber stops. I didnt take much time lining it up on that sig pic. A little patience and its good and clean.

As stated...3 diff hoods...0 problems. 2 of them I ran with no hood pins. 1 flew off car because I didnt latch it before I drove away. 100% my fault and the funny part about that was, when it flew off it was run over by 2 cars. I went and picked it up, and the front still latched and help the hood on. It was all kinds of tore up, but the latch worked.

And I love my 575. Its clean.

Ah ok than yours its different, the ones I have seen didn't have to do anything with the rubbers stops. Because we could push that corner down and it would pop back up.

Also the hood scoop had cracks all around it.

TeeHee!

he posted this same thing onsocal3s, so i posted there. the short answer is that this hood was a test hood first off the mold that was not finished, and never intended to be sold, which is why we didnt bother finishing it. gabber begged me to get it, and i sold it to him reluctantly for cheap if i remember right, its been years since then. that's why we didnt bother to finish it, the latch wasn't painted, etc.

all of the hoods I do are all made in baldwin park with US bought materials and DUPONT clear. dont know where the china thing came from slate, unless that was a joke. I do know you don;t like me though, so whatever. no worries.

those that have picked up from the factory like michaelsRT can confirm.

sorry about the drama.

I can vouch for the Gabber hood. It never fitted right but gabber got it for cheap and first. I remember this well.

-dLs-

Drama??? Im just asking around (norcal,socal, and 3si) to see if anyone else had a similar experience with the TS hood as is different than the 575 hood.

Well some people are making a bigger stink out of it than it needs to be.

But as far as experiences, talk to Michael, or any of the other people who have one.

-dLs-

I have personally been to his shop. Picked up 2 separate hoods there. I have had nothing bad to say about any of the 2gen 575 hoods I have owned. The 1gen one looks great, but it seems a little "rounded" around the headlight area for fitment. It went on perfectly fine but the lines were almost 2gen'esque on a 1gen body. I know thats nit picking but I did notice it. Other then that, never had any problems with the hoods. Any of them.

Sucks to hear about that hood in particular, but if I recall as well. Not only did Gabber take that hood knowing what it was, did he not modify it too with the whole evil eye thing? Or was that just the other hoods?

The quality of the glass work is very poor, this product would not hold together long. The resin content is way to rich. Excessive resin= very brittle parts . It als appears it was fabricated out of chopped glass ie shot out of a chopper gun. Glass products layed up with cloth much stronger

stock, victory, and TS hood all had it.

Then I will say the same thing I said to Eric, when u make modifications to a hood like that it affects the fitment and hood pins should be used.

Now back to the whole incident. The evil eye modification does not affect the hood latch nor fitment. IF the evil eye mod is SO bad then why is cianci selling them?

Yes it does affect fitment. I have seen it myself. It increases the pressure on the latch and if oyu do something to compromise the fitment you should put on hood pins. Period. If Cianci is selling a "evil eye" style headlight I would assume they made adjustments for the fitment and/or there is a disclaimer saying to use hood pins of some kind.

Is this hood that is in the post the one that flew off your car Eric? Or is this another hood?

To be honest didn't I see in detail how it fitted on their cars. On mine when Im done with it its going to be paper thin close to the headlight, not pushing down on it also the eyelids are going to be thinner for a more "flush" look.

Jesus, has my old hood that flew off.

Cianci is not making any disclaimer that I know of and not making specialized headlights. All of their advertisement pictures are with gabbers car.

This thread is fail on so many levels. Its not even my product and this annoys me.

Bottom line, Eric you shouldnt have someone else posting a thread for you. Jesus you shouldnt be posting a thread like this as tho this happened to you directly. If you want a result or have a real point to make do not hide behind a story like it was happening to you directly.

If you love those evil eyes so much, you shoulda just got hood pins....which if you recall...I DID TELL YOU THAT AT TYLERS HOUSE!!! Along with the fact I think they look silly in person. Pics look great, but whatever. The looks are not the important part. Fact is, that was a test hood, wasnt supposed to be used on a DD. Hood pins would have ended the issue to begin with.

Huh?? What are you talking about Michael? I didn't post this for Eric, also how am I hiding behind the story?? what does the finish of the hood had to to with it flying off??

If I didn't make this thread I would have never found out that it was a pre-production hood and when people would have seen it they would have been like WTF is wrong with the hood??? and I would have said that's how they come. Now I can tell them that it was a pre-production hood and that's why its like that.

Either way Im fixing the hood and it coming out nicely.

Sounds good. At least something good is coming out of it.

lol, they are made in baldwin park. several members have picked them up from the factory and have seen the molds there. sorry bud, you're dead wrong.

funny to see this so much later.

Even funnier that you forgot you already responded to it back in February...

haha, so true! i thought it looked familiar but didnt see that. theres alot of not so true statements floating around here and there.

Hi Bill