Check it out, these hood kits on ebay are pretty cool but I think it would make it tough to work on the engine..

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...tem=1851610955

 

I like how the seller says it will work on basically any car imaginable but fails to offer an idea of what the hell is in the kit.

 

Um, side hinges wouldn't be all that tough to pull off. Just go to the Home Depot, get some heavy duty cabinet hinges, and move your hood latch.

I wonder if you get that stylish color-matched hood prop to go with it.

Wanna be different for not to much effort? Mount your stock hinges in the front and the latch in the back. You get to keep your trick factory lift struts, too. (Hey, RAIF, are you listening?)

 

lol dood don't buy it! he'll probably send you a coat hanger, chisel, and a broomstick to prop it up with. also makes for a handy reminder everytime you think about how much you paid. shafted.


(p.s. - if u look closely at that pic you'll see exactly why it's called a suicide hood )

 

I'd love to mount my hood backwards, maybe some day when its not a daily driver.

 

Do it when you're all finished with your engine mods. It would be cool if you could mount the hood sideways or backwards with some removable pin hinges. That way if you needed to do extensive work you could just slide out the pins and lift the hood off.

 

SpeedCat86 quoted:
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Wanna be different for not to much effort? Mount your stock hinges in the front and the latch in the back. You get to keep your trick factory lift struts, too. (Hey, RAIF, are you listening?)
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As this been done before ? doable without major mods ?

 

To be honest, I'm not really sure. It looks like it could work pretty easily, just some drilling and light cutting. I've seen some Camaro show cars with forward lifting hoods, but never looked hard at the hood hinges. Firebirds might be easier because of the big, flat spot between the head lights.

Time do do some measuring......

 

I always liked the look of the reverse opening hoods, I don't particularly care for the look of this one. It's the first I've seen this. I will say that it's probably a bit more practical as far as being able to work on your car than the reverse opening is. I mean with the nose on our cars, I think most of us do more leaning over the side than anything else when working on our engines, right?

Mathius

 

Um, nope. We talked about it, but it would be pretty tough with an aftermarket fiberglass hood like hers (the steel reinforcement for the hinges would be in the wrong place...you'd have to reengineer the whole hood). If you were making a custom hood, no bigee, but we didn't want to do any more fiberglass work on the hood than we alraedy had to (which was significant).

If you have a steel hood, though, it wouldn't be that hard. Find a mid 80s Buick Park Avenue, they have reverse opening hoods from the factory that weigh about the same as a 3rd gen hood. I don't think it would be very hard to adapt the hinges and latch, and the local Pull-A-Part is full of them. You could probably get everything for about $25.

 

To a point.. you'd be screwed if you needed to work on the side where the latches are. The nose would make it difficult to get close and anything up close to the rear of the engine bay would be really difficult..