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EHB said:
hey cvilla...found another pic of that hood on a gp

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Looks good...but the black one seems to embody it better

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I'd like that one even better if it wasn't open at the back and went flat back there. Reminiscent of the Corvette Stinger:

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idrivejunk said:
I'd like that one even better if it wasn't open at the back and went flat back there. Reminiscent of the Corvette Stinger:
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i guess if you had a notion to , you could just slap some fiberglass on and close the back in ...:th_scratchhead:
 


cvilla690 said:
Oh yea. I see it. Matte would be so much better

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Woops... I meant if the scoop itself were squished flatter at the back lol. Not the flat finish. Now that you mention it though, that hood might really pop with a contrasting inset in the pointy part, kinda like the old Vette. The raised "stinger" coming out from under the scoop effect. The blue car's scoop is real round at the back, no like. Silver car is not rounded there, looks better. The curves down the sides of those two are different, and the silver car's scoop shape seems more masculine for lack of a better word.
 
EHB said:
i guess if you had a notion to , you could just slap some fiberglass on and close the back in ...:th_scratchhead:
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Nothin's off the table with fiberglass or metal so yep- shape can be easily altered.

If a guy wanted to create a new shape entirely he could use a flat hood as a buck and build up a scoop on it then glass over all of it... then pop that off and cut the old hood skin off then lay a newly made fiberglass skin over the metal shell and bond it. Hmm...
 
idrivejunk said:
Woops... I meant if the scoop itself were squished flatter at the back lol. Not the flat finish. Now that you mention it though, that hood might really pop with a contrasting inset in the pointy part, kinda like the old Vette. The raised "stinger" coming out from under the scoop effect. The blue car's scoop is real round at the back, no like. Silver car is not rounded there, looks better. The curves down the sides of those two are different, and the silver car's scoop shape seems more masculine for lack of a better word.
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Yea I can see what you mean. The color just throws me off on those

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good eye drunk , it's easy to see now that you pointed it out. the silver one definitely looks better.
 
idrivejunk said:
Nothin's off the table with fiberglass or metal so yep- shape can be easily altered.

If a guy wanted to create a new shape entirely he could use a flat hood as a buck and build up a scoop on it then glass over all of it... then pop that off and cut the old hood skin off then lay a newly made fiberglass skin over the metal shell and bond it. Hmm...
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that would be sweet. less chance of cracking due to mating different materials , plus a weight reduction...
just mold some bolts onto the underneath and bolt it on to the frame...i'll take one !!! when can you get started ? :th_scratchhead:
 


EHB said:
good eye drunk , it's easy to see now that you pointed it out. the silver one definitely looks better.
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Best reply ever, was that a Freudian slip? lol.

No need for bolts. As the glass skin is bonded on, you glass on a flange that wraps around the shell's edge too. Probably would never come loose but wouldn't matter if it did and wouldn't crack from thermal cycling at a bond line. Just an idea I've never tried but could work. It would be a little more complex but alarmingly do-able under a shade tree if a guy has time, materials, and inclination.
 
Pins, meh. But the skin part is exactamundo. Just carve a scoop out of foam or cardboard, clay, whatever. My thinking keeps all the stock latch, hinge and lift strut mounts intact and also retains the factory crush zone to a degree by using the OE shell. Next level could be carbon fiber if yer into that.
 
yeah that's what i'd want. no pins.
so you could just use the stock hood , make a replica FG hood , mold that scoop i like to the FG hood, then take the metal skin off and bond the FG skin to the frame which would still have the hardware attached ?
 


Theres not even a need for an extra hood in that line of thought. Put a lump of clay in the middle of the old hood, carve your shape. Thats your "buck", the opposite of a mold. Pop the cured glass layer off and trim it then separate the hood skin like you would a door skin-

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Your new piece would be slightly large and you'd want to trim the shell just a little to allow for the thicker skin material. Then you could glass the edge all the way around and finish out the rough glass on top. The inside would be smooth so bonus- it would look like steel. Now i want to try it on my bad hood lol

The expanding foam guys just built a shell inside a skin basically. I'm thinking use the existing shell.
 
i see what your saying. just use the clay as a rough template for the scoop and cut it out later. i just thought it might be less hassle to go ahead and work an already finished scoop into the FG while you're layering it. put a layer or two of cloth resign down , put the scoop in place , then keep building it around the scoop till the edges of it sits flush.
 
Hey guys...I quit my job and got another today...guess what I'm going to learn how to do better?! Body work!!!

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