K well as some of you know I've been having serious issues with my fiberglass hood. So I've been toying with the idea of replacing it. I want to keep the same style hood i have but i can't find it anymore and according to the last body guy to work on this hood its beyond help.
So this is what I came up with.
My Current Hood
OEM With Eyelids
C/F OEM with Eyelids
All input welcome.
i love that hood
is there no way to salvage it?
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Alexis wrote:i love that hood is there no way to salvage it?
I dunno, last time it cracked and bubbled i took it to the shop, they did their best they said but told me that most likely they would return due to how rough shape the hood was (it was warped when i got it) and lo and behold it cracked and bubbled again. Really upsets me cause this is the only hood I really want on my car but i dunno what to do.
Just another idea, wasn't someone on here trying to get a GP going for an oem style with eyelids fiberglass hood going? Spose I bought that, could I add something like this
F/G Scoop to it?
You should go for another aggressive hood. Seeing the car without any scoops just seems....weird to me.
Rest In Peace, Saint.
He's your god, they're your rules, YOU burn in hell!!
where did u get the hood u got now? what company?
Yeah your current hood is seriously the best hood on any J hands down
I wish they made one that looked that nice for my Cavy
Everyone seems to like the hood, as do I. My only issues is repairing it, i spose come winter i could completly redo that portion of the hood, everyone seems to think a bodyshop says its irrepairable is because it would take them too much time to fix. Time doesn't matter to me.
Alexis wrote:You should go for another aggressive hood. Seeing the car without any scoops just seems....weird to me.
My thoughts exactly...your car just wouldnt be the same without a scoop. I'd like to see it with the Class Glass Turbo Sport hood.
Manta Z(The Primered One) wrote:Manta Z(The Primered One) wrote:where did u get the hood u got now? what company?
Got it from whiteboy, but its the spydarauto hood I beleive, and they no longer exist, so whiteboy can't get the hood anymore.
i would fix it, its a fiberglass hood unless the thing is in nothing but splinters its always repairable
^ very tru. i fix the bomex bumper i have on now when alot of people said it was worth it.. only used 50 bucks of material to fix a authentic Bomex bumper.. alot said it would be cheaper to buy a new one.. and im thinking 200+ isnt cheaper than 50 bucks
it shouldnt be hard tofix.. just take some time. what exactly wrong with it? Just gaps or what?
Laffs99GT wrote:Just another idea, wasn't someone on here trying to get a GP going for an oem style with eyelids fiberglass hood going? Spose I bought that, could I add something like this F/G Scoop to it?
Ya that was me. I just havent gotten around to starting the GP for the OEM w/eyelids in fiberglass and Carbon Fiber yet. Maybe next week I will as ill be out of town for a week over the long weekend.
Here is a link to the origional thread.
http://www.j-body.org/forums/read.php?f=7&i=320979&t=320979
Regards,
J
i like the stock hood with eyelids but thats just me.
time isnt an issue unless you realise your paying a shop50$ an hour to repair it. most shops dont want to do it because they dont want to charge a kid 800$ to fix a hood someone alreadys spent a few hundred dolars on. chances are if that happened the person would refuse payment and the shop would be out the money of the repair and be stuck with a hood they could only sell for a few hundred bucks if they were lucky.
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Manta Z(The Primered One) wrote:^ very tru. i fix the bomex bumper i have on now when alot of people said it was worth it.. only used 50 bucks of material to fix a authentic Bomex bumper.. alot said it would be cheaper to buy a new one.. and im thinking 200+ isnt cheaper than 50 bucks it shouldnt be hard tofix.. just take some time. what exactly wrong with it? Just gaps or what?
Theres some blisters over the eyelids as well as hairline crack in the middle off the passenger side
ah.. well u can fix it or if u like the GCP fiberglass for 425 and one just add eyelids to it..
Manta Z(The Primered One) wrote:ah.. well u can fix it or if u like the GCP fiberglass for 425 and one just add eyelids to it..
I wouldn't know where to start with fixing that hood, any tips o master of fiberglass repair lol.
not a master of f/g at all.. but anything should be fixable.. just sand/grind down the area really good where u can fix it.. dunno what u mean when u say blisters so i cant picture and help u out on fixing them.. the crack isnt hard to fix at all.. and are u sure teh crack is in the eyelid and not just stress crack in the paint?
if the blister u mean like a air bubble.. just break open the buble and break away any weak peice of the hole and repair it with glass..
where can i get a plain oem hood with eyelids??
you make one.. but if u want a f/g or c/f one click the link the guy posted above.. if u read ull see it
only thing i worry about with this hood is the quality of the hood itself. i know their hoods were pretty bad. and if it seems to be cracking it sounds like it could be an issue with improper resin mixing when it was made. chances are they used way to much hardener to speed up the cure time and what happens is that gives you very brittle fiberglass wich maybe the reason you seem to have allot of cracking, and if thats the case the only way you could really fix it would be to add a couple layers of good glas on top and bottom to wrap the bad flass work in good. if youve had it worked on a few times and issues keep coming up with it. i really think your best bet is going to be just scrapping it. or youlle end up just keep putting money into it.
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sndsgood wrote:only thing i worry about with this hood is the quality of the hood itself. i know their hoods were pretty bad. and if it seems to be cracking it sounds like it could be an issue with improper resin mixing when it was made. chances are they used way to much hardener to speed up the cure time and what happens is that gives you very brittle fiberglass wich maybe the reason you seem to have allot of cracking, and if thats the case the only way you could really fix it would be to add a couple layers of good glas on top and bottom to wrap the bad flass work in good. if youve had it worked on a few times and issues keep coming up with it. i really think your best bet is going to be just scrapping it. or youlle end up just keep putting money into it.
I like your honesty, and yea, I don't wanna dump more money into something that continualy breaks. Anyone have experience with class glass?
