It was delivered last weekend, but i couldnt leave school untill this weekend. This is the testfit. There will be a few tweaks needed here and there. But my main concern is that it is about a half inch short in the front. Anyone have any ideas ow to fix that?

 

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i love it , it looks pretty good.

 

half inch huh? just call the guys you bought it off of and ask them

 

NIce hood, im still debating on this hood or the ram air II, where did you order it from, cuz im about to lay down some cash for either one, or i may get both....

 

Kick *** :hail:

 

By far the baddest... cowl hood... ever.

Can't wait to see painted pics

\m/


-Bud

 

It will be painted next weekend. I bought it from Hawks. Overall it fits pretty good. It is a great quality hood. Very rigid. Gel coat was actually mostly sanded , no real waves. All the bolt holes were pre-made w/ the bolts already in em. Almost a perfect bolt on. I will have to adjust the fenders a little... the gap between the hood n fenders is a just a tad bigger than i want. I will have to move em in a bit. I think i will have to move the hood hinges up just a little bit to make up for that gap in the font.

 

BTW, how much do you think i could get for my old steel hood? It is in decent shape. No dents or dings, but there is a little surface rust on the bottom front lip of the hood. Would just have to be sanded a little. But if your gunna repaint it, ya gotta sand it anyways... hmmm

 

Thats an awesome looking hood.

 

Yall think im the first one on TGO w/ this hood? That would be nice to know!

 

Nope, someone else has had one for a while, I think he had one of the originals.

 

That is an awesome hood, I really like it. but I am going to go with an SS hood when I finaly get one.

 

I was considering that hood for me seeing as how i have some "top secret" body mods i wont be revealing till it rolls out of the paint both but i have a question. What is the raise on that "cowl" is it enough to give a little more underhood room looks definately sexy

 

The hole in the hood fits perfectly over my 14" open air filter. I belive the cowl is 2 and a half inch rise ( i really cant recall right now ). There is about 2 inches give or take a little on top of my aircleaner when the hood is shut, so that might help you judge a bit.

 

looks nice, i don't care for cowl hoods but if i had to have one that would be right up there with my choice. that 1/2" off is pretty noticeable though. might send the pictures to them and ask.

as far as being the only, there are quite a few running around michigan you'll see at the shows as well as members on here. if you want to be the first in anything with these cars it almost has to be completely custom nowdays.

would like to see it in paint though as i'm sure it looks good.

 

Been a month since you got the hood. Is it finished and do you have pics?

 

 

ha, yeah it has been a month. Well its been sitting at my body shop waiting for me to pick it up because im at college right now. SO last weekend i went t et it, brought it home, and the paint was messed up. Whoever sprayed it wasnt my body guy, probably one of his workers. O well... so now its back in the shop. ARG!!! But while its in there im having my guy get rid of all the rust, repaint ( correctly this time ) the hood, fit it up, and shave my antenna (SP). I am also now looking for some speedshops to have a new engine, tranny, rear put in because i cant do it here! By this summer my maro will be a lean mean driving machine. Hopefully i dont have to wait that long for the car to get redone...

Im guessing 3 weeks for the body work... thats if they dont take forever this time.

 

If the hood is a half inch short, send it back and buy something else...

 

Nice looking hood. Do you have any pictures of the car from the side. I am getting a new hood and want either the jongbloed or goodmark cowl and am trying to decide which would follow the lines of my car the best (84 z28).

 

i wonder if that hood would look good with the seam sanded out .

 

when i move the hinges up the gap is closed down. When they sanded the hood they hit that seam a little bit. I think it looks really nice. It looked great when it was painted ( minus the bubbles n crap.) One of the problems with the paint when i got it back was there were these weird imprints that came from the bubble wrap... they boxed it up way after the paint was cured... just plain odd. Ill put up a pic from inside the car later tonight. When i get back to my room

 

did you get it painted yet? like to see some pix of that, I always thought about making a hood myself with a cowl as wide as the stock hood indintations, but alas, someone else has beat me.

cheers

Blake

 

well it was painted and done last week.. but they messe up the paint so they are gunna redo it. Im having them do other work and i am on break from school this coming up week so ill be sure to swing by te garage and get ome pics

 

yes you now have me wondering if I should get that hood or the SS hood. where did you get that from? khow much

cheers

Blake

 

i got it from hawks. IIRC the hood was like 450 give or take. To michigan it was $100 SHIPPING...arg

 

well here is some idea's you can try to fix the gap.. i didn't read all the posts so i don't know if it was discussed or not but...

you will need at least 2 people to help you.. one in the front and one operating a ratchet =) anyways have one stand in the front and losen the 2 bolts on each side and yank the hood up.. tighten a bolt down on each side and close it to see if it fits right.. keep doing that and if it doesn't adjust you might have to oblong them holes and make it "custom"

 

Nice man but i don't know if i would put it my car. As of now i am looking at a ss hood for mine.

 

i like it, always been a fan of cowls

 

that hood would be perfect w/o the ridge

 

i wonder if u can sand that ridge down a bit? make it not so noticable, less 'pointy'

 

well fellas, ive had the car back for a month, but just got out of school last week. I went out lastnight for a cruise with my buddy and took a few pics. Ill get some day shots when it stops raining round here and the sun coms out.

( the gap problem i had is pretty much fixed, i have to shim up the front just a tad and ill be ok.)

 

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Looks pretty nice.

I know I'm splitting hairs but I think the crease down the center is too high/defined. I would sand it down softer so it's not so prominent but that's just me.

 

very nice

 

Looks good!

 

i love it , if i had a camaro i think i might go for that one with the 5 inch spoiler.

 

That came out very nice.
What exactly did you have to do to fix the gap problem? Just move the hood down the hinges?

 

im not a fan of thos hoods, to big IMO... nice to see something diffrent tho...

 

Looks Nice!!

To me the ultimate Cowl hood would be as wide as the jongbloed hood, but "Cervini-style". Now THAT would be an awesome looking hood!


Ken

 

Something like this:

 

i wonder how the hood would look with the ridge sanded out.

 

i was iffy about the ridge too but the more i see it, the more i like it. To fix the hood gap i actualy had to grind the fender holes out a little. My body guy was removing underhood rust for me at that same time so i wasnt worried about hurting any paint. Thanks for all the kind words fellas.

 

Man that looks really, really good! AWESOME! Post some day shots as soon as you can!

 

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I love that hood, makes the car look a lot tougher than the original cowl hoods.

 

it looks sweet and you've got a really sharp camaro but i like the hood on the blue 'roc a lil bit better

looks really nice though,
Brandon

 

was walking outside today to take some pics, and it started raining. Ill try again soon.