Awesome. I am loving all this info. Any thoughts on making them out of metal?


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Yea you could do that to. Find a old hood to cut up. Just off of something fairly flat.

Biggest issue is making or finding a metal brake to use. Couple 2X4's a vice and a 4 lb hammer and use a Small piece of wood to make the rounded angles. Bend it around a pipe for the rounded edges.

I do rust repair for people like that. Cut the rust out. And just make the piece I need out of any old door or trunklid I got laying around. My extra chevelle trunk will be all over my durango when I get around to fixing and painting it.

Do you got a welder or access to one? Pop riveting works but welding is better, Cleaner and less bondowork to do.

If you doing it just to do it for fun and the challenge. Rock on.

But this is gonna be alot of work. I got my hood for 125 bucks but that was 10 years ago from someone I knew. Figure your hours in even at minimum wage and it is cheaper to buy it.

It takes forever to get a used hood straight. The bow they all got in the centerline from welding the bracing on. That is a pain and takes forever, unless you just want to live with it. It was a factory deal. So nobody will really balk.

Not trying to discourage you. Just letting you know it gonna be a project.

I expect a project for sure. My job doesn't allow for any "man work" so the doing is the best part. Like getting my hands dirty.


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That is all I wanted to hear. Have fun and I will to watching you. I actually wish you were close to me. I love getting involved in stuff like this.

I did this to a firebird in college once. Made a T/A scoop on the hood. Long long ago when I was young, still in my teens.

What about the plastic scoops? Can they be glassed in?


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