I need a list of members who are interested @ having a lightweight CF hood.
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CF hood from ART Tuning

Need 20 interested SLK 55 owners. Information on weight and pricing TBA.

 

i'm interested.

 

add me

 

+1

 

Estimate cost, Can it be painted so You can see its CF?

 

Estimate weight and cost, hopefully given by tomorrow. Still checking with product development.

 

interested...depending on weight savings and price.

 

WOW, imagine how it would look with the C2 design carbon fiber roof! Now all we need is a carbon fiber trunk

 

Regarding getting 20 buy ins ... thats quite high you might want to lower your expectations as well as the provider. Just watching the group buys for the E55 makes me think this number is too high. Lets face it there are less SLK55s than E55s out there.

Try also posting on SLKworld.com and the other boards. Not everyone only looks at this forum.

Also its not just SLK55's that can use this part. All SLK's can use this part. There are a lot of foreign SLK's that are looking for performance products but due to pricing ... have either chosen the 350 or 280.

 

Yeah i will look into that Sir. Thank you for the advise. Just doing my survey whos interested right now. Still negotiating with product development. Might take awhile i think.

 

Make sure you get the weight of a stock hood as well so people can see the difference.

 

Our CF hood for the SLK will be out in about a week or two. Weight will be about 10-15lbs. Which is at least half the weight of the stock hood.

 

Did you ever come out with a CF spoiler lip?

 

Is it going to look exactly like the stock hood or will it be different? Also pricing?

 

If neil remembers I told him to do some CF stuff for the SLK since August but he told me he was quiet busy at that time.

Cf lip spoiler ?

 

Whatever its called...

Basically this for the SLK...
https://mbworld.org/forums/showthrea...ht=lip+spoiler

 

Our hood is now pretty much ready and we can start accepting orders. Price is $1,749. It is an excact copy of the factory hood and fits just like the stock hood but weighs about 12-15lbs. I also have a front bumper replacement for the SLK which is a copy of the AMG Black Series front bumper with the carbon fiber vents on the side. It is absolutely incredible looking in person. We had one installed on an SLK55 and the carbon fiber vents look sweet! Price on that will be $1,200. I will have pictures of it on our own SLK55 soon, but in case some of you do not know what i mean it looks like this bumper

We may start on an add on front lip in carbon fiber soon, but i thought we would be different and just do the black series front bumper first.

 

That's a good price! Too bad shipping it to Switzerland would add many hundreds of bucks to it

But first I wanna see a photo

 

after looking at the pics of the black series ... it had me thinking ... looks like we will have to paint this hood ...

 

It can be painted if you desire. Depends on the color of your car, or even the type of look you are going for. The carbon fiber hoods and trunks we sell for the E55, some people paint them, some people leave it CF. I think a custom painted job is also cool where the paint slowly blends into the CF, this way the sides of the hood match the sides of the fenders.

 

i just make a thread with pics of our black series bump here.

https://mbworld.org/forums/slk55-r171/168189-slk-black-series-carbon-fiber-front-bumper-now-available.html

 

i think it looks kinda weird without the fender like the black series/tracksport version...

 

Exactly

 

Sorry bro, I think it's the other way around.
On a smaller car like this -- the vents look even better than the ones on the SL65!

I'm diggin' the front bumper, I need to find a R171 soon. I think the black series is just not a 'feasible' car -- you lose the ability to drop the top. That's one of the reasons why the SLK is such a perfect package (next to the R230 that is )

 

Don't worry about it, your not getting the Black series anyhow! I'm with you as I'm in tx at the mo, but if I was in seattle or germany the drop top becomes less important instantly and the Black series would be much better suited to Nurmburgring.