Which Hood should I go with?
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Re: Which Hood should I go with?
But that hood, the cowl uses the factory accents on the hood as a basis for its outline which is great, but for some reason on a car with a lot of sweeping angles and sharp curves, they make the top of the cowl a big shapeless bulbous mass. Why? If You could join that sunoco hood with the SS hood's sharper transition to the "roof" of the cowl, it'd look a lot better.
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Re: Which Hood should I go with?
To me the best looking hood is the stock IROC hood. Obviously, there are times when extra clearance are needed but I don't really like the look of any of them. The cowl induction hood on the blue/silver stripe car is about the best I have seen. The issue for me is when an aftermarket hood is on an otherwise stock bodied car just looks out of place. I am not bashing anyone's look because that's kinda the purpose of hot rodding, make it your own and if you like it that is all that really matters.
If I needed extra clearance I would try to take a stock IROC hood and modify it to give the added clearance but still look stock-ish. From an air induction standpoint I would like to have a front opening scoop like the fourth gen SS's or TA's. I have seen some like this on Firebirds that looked good but I don't know if the Camaro could pull it off. Just my opinions.
If I needed extra clearance I would try to take a stock IROC hood and modify it to give the added clearance but still look stock-ish. From an air induction standpoint I would like to have a front opening scoop like the fourth gen SS's or TA's. I have seen some like this on Firebirds that looked good but I don't know if the Camaro could pull it off. Just my opinions.
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Re: Which Hood should I go with?
Old thread but I have questions... So I like the 2 inch cowl and the SS hood BUT I'm not finding a Steel SS hood which is prolly what I would like and I had gotten a Duraflex hood for my Built Grand Cherokee and it was junk plane and simple and all that pop up are the Duraflex. What have you folks found? Thanks
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Re: Which Hood should I go with?
Old thread but I have questions... So I like the 2 inch cowl and the SS hood BUT I'm not finding a Steel SS hood which is prolly what I would like and I had gotten a Duraflex hood for my Built Grand Cherokee and it was junk plane and simple and all that pop up are the Duraflex. What have you folks found? Thanks
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Thank you sir... Thats kind of what I thought for steel so, With them being that much I'm thinking it wont be an SS
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