welcome from SoCal. check out the Vendors on these forums if not there's always ebay.

 

Here you go:

http://www.moparsupercenter.com/

 

You would need to have it painted; keep that in mind as an additional cost beyond the hood itself. You can probably find painted SRT hoods somewhere, but the SRT doesn't come in stone white.

 

I got the order form (with prices/part #'s) off the internet and went to my local dealer and they matched the price ($1500) for an OEM SRT-8 (aluminum) hood (and accessories) for mine. I then had a local guy custom paint mine. If you are going to go a solid color, the paint work shouldn't be much. I don't have pics here on my work computer but there is one in my avatar and I can post some more later or you can PM me.
I also went with the Airaid intake system to make use of the intake on the hood.

 

Here's those pics I said I would post.

 

Please give us a call and we can bet the OEM price and you have the optio of Carbon Fiber. Our hood is the same look as the SRT8 design. If you do not want to leave it carbon fiber buy the fiberglass one and save even more.


Thank you,
John
www.carbonbydesign.com
760-643-1300

 

^^^^ these guys are just who I was about to recomend... WAY better price than going stock... you loose a little weight... I just have had nothing but compliments on my hood

 

True, the hood is lighter, and cheaper, but is it safer? I think the structure/crumple of the OEM hood would help in a <god forbid> head on collision........?

- Mark

 

Just as safe as the OEM hood.

Same crumple zones built into their hood as the OEM hood.

 

Whoa - hang on there. Composites fail MUCH more differently than metals do. Metals typically absorb a great deal of energy by bending, folding, stretching whereas composites tend to fail instantly without a great deal of deformation and energy management. Think of bending a small fiberglass rod until it snaps instantly and then think of bending a small metal rod which bends slowly without breaking apart. The metal rod manages much more energy than the fiberglass rod.

Just because the design is similar reflects nothing about how the two parts will both manage energy in a frontal crash. Still, most of the energy in a front crash event is handled by the body structure. The hood will contribute some but the body does most of the work. I wouldn't be too concerned about a fiberglass hood from a safety standpoint.

 

WELL SAID!

However CBD knows their craft. They manufacture all sorts of composite items, even Mil-Spec stuff. I would not put it past them to have at least tested the hood, and purposely weakened it in places in order to make it crumple. I know for a fact you can buy a "race hood" from them (well kinda, I remember a member on LXforums recounting a conversation with them). Super lightweight and strong, so strong in fact in a head on it would fly though the windshield and kill/maim/injure you.

 

How are those fiberglass hoods when your using the hood struts? or can't you use them? Basically while closing the hood. I remember when I had a shaker fiberglass hood on my Cuda I had a bow in the center of the hood, I even had the T/A springs. That hood came from AAR fiberglass in FL.

 

The hood struts work with these hoods just as well as stock, same with the underhood silencer and air splitter.

Originally Posted by Hemi 06:
i thought these hoods don't seem to fit as nice as the OEM stock srt-8 hoods. Didn't some people complain that there were some big gaps, and the the hood bends when it gets hot out?

They fit better, CBD designed them to fit nicer that the OEM hoods that leave a gap at the front, CBD filled that gap in to look better.

 

i thought these hoods don't seem to fit as nice as the OEM stock srt-8 hoods. Didn't some people complain that there were some big gaps, and the the hood bends when it gets hot out?

 

I think those were fiberglass hoods not the carbon fiber ones, I think.