Just wondering if i can get a little help here. I put on my ss hood and it looks great, for the most part. Problem is on the drivers side, the hood doesn't line up w/ the fender.......I really didn't have to do much to get the hood to fit, just ream the holes on the hinge a little bigger. The hood is level w/ the fender back at the winshield and about half way down the hood starts to rise up higher than the fender, when it gets to the headlight it's about 1/4 to 1/2 higher.. I tried removing the hood shock, took my strut tower brace off and took the coil spring that pops the hood open off thinking one of these might be the problem, but nothing helped. Anyone else have a simular problem?. Any ideas what to look for next....is there an adjustment somewhere i am missing?

 

there are two bolts to the left and right of the radioter that twist up and down...these ajust how high the hood rests

 

this is prob. a dumb question, but did you play with the hood bump stops on the front?

*edit* you said it before I could

 

Yea.......i can actually look inside the hood on the drivers side from the front.....the hoods not even touching the bumper stop in the front......not touching the winshield washer bottle either...I can't see where it's hitting anything at all ....it,s kinda got that effect , if you ever left a tool accidentally on the side of the hood and closed it on it, but there's nothing there.

 

you might just have a bad hood. they have been known to happen from time to time. maybe someone just took it out of the mold too early.

 

Yup i had the same problem, send the hood back if you havent painted it yet. Mine looked like it was warped about halfway up the drivers side. It was flush towards the windshield and the front of the hood, but right in the middle it was raised about a 1/4" or so, looked like crap.

 

Mine had alittle of that, but I was told well its a fiberglass hood. Getting a perfect one is basically luck. (for the price ought to be better...)

Anyhow, I had to have my body man block mine. He took alot of it out and its only slightly noticable now.

 

After thinking and glaring at it for countless hours, i came to the conclussion that where the hood hinge meets the hood the material is to thick on the hood, if i shave it down i think it will stop pressing up the hood at that spot and get rid of that little bow....as for it not lining up at the bottom , maybe my front end might be sagging or something still not sure , i can press it down and it lines up. Think i might just put hood pins on to hold it down. i dunno yet.

 

I have that same exact problem with my cervini 3" Cowl. You can actually push down on the hood and make it level so the bump stops on mine arn' the cause. really kinda crappy cause the car has already been painted. Other than that it fits perfect.

Might get some hood pins but Im really not a fan of that stuff. Do they make hood pins that sit flush?


Hope you find a fix

 

here's a couple of pics of what i am talking about..

 

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Who did you buy the hood from?
Have you called them about it ore sent these pics to them yet?
I've heard of other people on here having the same problem, seemed kinda common when the SS hood first come out. I thought they had it lined out by now. Guess not. That worries me because I plan on buying one but I don't want to have to go through this crap. If you gotta pay to ship a defective product back then that'll be expensive. They should cover it. They should have some quality control and make sure its right before they send it out or eat the cost to make it right.
Please update us on who made it, who you bought it thru, and what either of them do to make it right.
This will determine if I get one. And if so, who from.

 

I bought it from American Sports car designs out of TN. I actually just took the pics tonight and put the hood on yesterday, so i haven't had a chance to contact them about it yet. Probably nothing they did. I bought a fiberglass spoiler and it fit like sh*t. I actually had to take the spoiler to a body shop to have it put on, they had to relocate the mounting bolts and shave it to get it to fit,by the time it was all said and done, i had $550 dollar spoiler.....Bottom line is it's fiberglass, i haven't seen one fiberglass piece fit nicely right away. Luckily a friend of mine is pretty good w/ fiberglass so thursday we're gonna mess with it to try and get it to fit better. Just kinda strange why the front is so high, the car hass never been wrecked before.

 

Fiberglass hoods and spoilers were invented when the bodyshop business was down and needed money. They created it and we all fell for it!!!!!!!

 

I have the same problem with my BB hood from hawks. You may remember the post I did awhile back about all the problems is had with it. Have you tried loosing the hoods hinges a little and then using a piece of wood and a hammer softly tap the wood against the hinge and see if it moves one way or ther other. Try and see if you can move it back more if that does the trick. Play around with the hinge alot, it seemed to work for me.

 

Haven't really messed with it lately. Tomorrow i am going into work and meeting a friend who has a jitter bug. I am thinking there is something going on wrong around the drivers side hinge sinse the hood buckels up right where the hinge is. Gonna take a look at the hinge or i am thinking there might be to much material on the hood where the hood meets the hinge.I'll keep this updated when i finish.

 

Wow that looks bad if the pass side fits fine take a pic of the whole hood. Its def bent bad if the pass side lines up if it was a steel hood ide say try to bend it back but i dont think ide try with fiberglass, I was also going to get this hood makes me think.

 

not the first time ihave heard of american sports car designs hoods not fitting properly search for there name inthe vender feedback

 

hey its not only american sports but also hawks hoods that do that. My BB does that too.

 

Hey...it's fibergalss.... Anyways, I took the jitter bug to it and sanded alot of area out where the hood meets the hinge, they sorta left alot of material there which wasn't flat but curved, i got most of the bowed area out on the drivers side, don't think it waill be at all noticable when it's painted. The passengers side fit right up fine. I actually bolted a screw on the underside of the hood on the drivers side and tied a rope around it, then tied it to the fender brace, cause the hood was flapping really bad at high speed, when i removed the rope it actually cured alot of the problem with it being higher than the fender. Gonna put hood pins on to get it the rest of the way. Its off now and ready for paint. I'll post pics when it's all done.

 

My hood did fit right when I put it in, Me and my dad messed with it but we figured that we just did not mess with it enough.... Come to find out the guy that painted and would do body work for me could not get it right either..... He was able to smooth out rough spots on the hood but the hood would not line up on the passenger side....... It was to late at that point because he already painted it...... Its not to bad it just does not line up perfectly, the fender is higher then the top of the hood...........

 

If the fender is higher on just one side all you have to do it raise the bump stop. If it wont close then try raising the latch a little and lowereing the bump stop on the driver side. If it just wont go down anymore on the pass side the hood might need trimmed a little.

 

Some fiberglass hoods are like that, what you need to do is take it off and on a hot day and let it set in the sun, That sun will heat up the hood, put some weight on it and it should flatten out, I had a friend who could see trough his gap, the body shop just let it get hot and put weight on it, it look perfect now

 

I know when I installed a STB...my hood would not fit right at all. So, I took it off. The only way for it to fit with the STB would to either modify the hood or modify the STB. Also, I removed the spring and cut a few coils from it. Fits like a dream