jrcart

I am having a custom hood built but I needed a donor hood for the mold, I searched high and low, ebay, craigslist, and dozens of phone calls to high end european salvage yards but still no luck. I ended up having to buy a new one from my parts department at my local dealership, heres what I discovered. The BS hood has a unique part number but the hood is not unique and it certainly is not aluminum. Why would MB give it a special part number?

_AMG_

Whats the hood made out of?
I think they give it a special part # because its for a Black Series.

jrcart

Its steel, magnets stick to it.

jrcart

I will be calling the dealership tomorrow to get a price on a CLK 350 hood just to make sure I didn't get hit with a Black Series tax LOL.

obsidian05e55

Parts.com sells the CLK hood for $684. Just says CLK 03-09.
Getmercedesparts.com has it for $855. 03-09 CLK. Neither mention BS.

Doctodd33

The unique number might just be for inventory and tracking purposes

Maverick1975

Yes it's steel, wonder why they did not use something lighter. I am making a custom vented bonnet and had to buy a replacement hood to work on to. What design are you going with Jim?

kent426

Search the C55 forum. The hoods should be the same, I thought Dad's or someone else has a carbon fiber hood. There are a few on Ebay but they look like crap and are made in china.

wonsuk_utmb

They are not interchangeable. Part numbers are different

https://mbworld.org/forums/clk-class...ibre-hood.html

Maverick1975

How is your hood going Won?? Mine is finally getting cut this week

jrcart

I guess we are all getting new hoods designed. Mine is going to have a functional tunnel ram air plus heat extraction vents.

wonsuk_utmb

With the amount of design and thought that goes into your developments, I'm regretting I ever started to produce one. Really excited to see what you have in store.

wonsuk_utmb

final prototype in double sided carbon is being made currently.

ecampbell

I am watching all three of you.....will split the design costs for a completed product.

jrcart

Mine is going to include new airboxes which are 3" longer than the stock airboxes, you know how much air these things need air. I told the guys making the hood that function needs to come before styling so mine might not be the best looking of the three but it will offer the most performance.

Maverick1975

Punch me in the face for saying this but i wish i could have the hood from a shelby supersnake. i really like that design.

GeoGeo

count me in as well

Doctodd33

I'd consider too.

jrcart

Funny that you mention that, That's the basis for my design.

KENNY94945

Just a guess here....maybe the hood has a different part number because the underside has different indents for clearance.

Such as for the strut tower brace.

Maverick1975

oh! What kind of material are you using? are you grafting a fibreglass or CF addition onto the stock steel bonnet. i would love to see this design. Mine is just going to have a series of totally flush vent grills like the Brabus Bullit

jrcart

I was hoping they could graft onto a stock hood but they said they couldn't with what I wanted done so its going to be a complete new hood, I had to buy the stock hood for a mold because I didn't want to harm my stock hood so I just figured spending $800 on a spare would be the best way to go. Its going to be glass, the shop doing it said CF will only offer a weight savings of 7-8 pounds over glass and glass will be easier to prep and paint with a perfect finish.