I am looking to buy a ram air hood for my 92 bird. To buy it from ramairhood.com would cost about $1400cdn, everything included. On ebay it will cost about $650 to $750. However for the pin on fiberglass hoods on ebay are cheaper at about $550. Is there any difference in a normal ram air hood and the pin on hood, besides the obvious.(it pins on,lol) Does anyone know how much work it takes to custom make it fit the hood shocks? Also, is it possible to buy the vents to go in the hood bc the hood will not come with vents. The pin on hood also has the cowl induction opening at the top, what would you need to close that opening if the company will not do it?

Sorry for all the questions, but I know some of you have struggled with this as well. Below is a link to the pin on hood.

http://cgi.ebay.ca/PONTIAC-FIREBIRD-...QQcmdZViewItem

 

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Lets just say you get what you pay for.

 

A pin-on hood won't have the reinforced inner structure, nor the bolt threads for the hinges. Basically, no way to make a pin-on into a hinged hood.

 

The RA1 and RA2 hoods are for sale for $510 Us dollars at hawksthirdgenparts.com. Hawks is the only company I would buy a hood or spoiler from anyway. Well, maybe GT Fiberglass.

You almost want to have at least 2 hood pins/locks for the front of the hood. I'd feel really unsafe without them at high speeds.

 

Seriously?

https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/afte...lass-just.html

 

wow on a side note I have to say the bumper on the car in the pics on the ebay link is the ugliest thing I've ever seen on a third gen.. yuck

 

thanks guys, so hawks is the one to go with?

 

doesnt q and t make them for hawks anyways

 

pretty sure gt made them for hawks at first, but then gt became too hard to deal with or something so now someone else supplies hawks.

 

Thanks, I didn't know they were that bad

 

Back in the winter of 2004 when the canadian dollar was at 70ish cents I landed a RA1 hood from ASCD for roughly 700 dollars. I brokered my own hood and saved some money. IIRC the shipping was roughly 170 from the states on ATC Courier. I don't reccomend using them if they are in your area. The company that actually brought it up from the states for ATC was Canadian Freightways. They are bondable so they can deliver right to your door rather than you having to broker your own part. It does cost a bit more tho.

 

Yes, Hawks is a very good company to deal with. Although I'm selling my Ram Air One Hood that I purchased from them a few months back, I was very satisfied with the product overall, and will be purchasing another from them in due time....