A few weeks ago I dented my hood on my 89 RS, so I went to 1 of the local u-pull it yard and found a nice hood off an older Z-28,when I got it home I noticed it was made out of fiberglass and the the little plastic parts that are in the hood scoop indentations acualy open up with an electric acuator mounted under the hood.
was this a stock hood or an after market one?
I know it is alot lighter than the stock 1 I took off.
Bob

 

It's a stock hood which was from an 82-83 Z28. Those are very hard to find....good find!

 

thanks 84cutomZ28 for the reply,not bad for $40.00.
to bad I can't use the air intake on it.
I was looking for an IROC style hood,I found 1 but the yard wanted $250 for it
Thanks
Bob

 

actually i don't think those are fiberglass, i have an 83 crossfire, they were made with the only working air flaps on a camaro ever. i don't think they ever made a fiberglass stock version. so it's either a repro or stock, cause i know my hood is also lighter then the other ones i've come across.

 

Thanks for the reply Z28cross-fire,I did get it off of a 83 with crossfire,it is fiberglass or some other type resin,I cut off 2 small parts that were tearing into my bra and they looked like fiberglass or something like it,definatly not any metal.
Thanks
Bob

 

in 1983, all Z28's came with a steel hood, UNLESS it came with the LU5 option, which was the air induction hood. In 1984, all hoods were steel and cross fire wasn't an option

 

LU5 was the RPO code for the cross-fire injection motor, and he said it had a cross-fire injection motor in it. So its not a steel hood.

 

Just wanting to know if the any body could see the pic I posted? I can't get my computer to let me look at it ,wanted to see if it came out Ok.
Bob

 

there was also a non functional resin hood that came on the 82-84 lg4 equiped z28's. i know, i had one.

 

here is all the information if anyone wants to check it out: http://www.thirdgenusa.com/THIRD%20G...NFO%20PAGE.htm

 

great find on the smc hood.

 

Here ya go badbob66.............................

 

You forgot to add the file type at the end of the file.

 

hey CraZ-28

ARe you goign to black those portions of the hood out when you get the hood painted? If so, let me know...because I'm pretty sure I have a nice set of replacement decals i could sell ya for pretty cheap

 

Nope. My '83 HO Z28 has a factory fibreglass hood. No functional flaps, but it is fibreglass.

All '82 Z28s, most '83 Z28s, and no '84+ got the 'glass hood.

 

in 1982 all Z28's came with light-weight SMC (Sheet Molded Compound) hoods. The LU5 optioned Z28's also came with functional hood air induction flaps.

in 1983 all Z28 hoods were switched from SMC to steel except the LU5 air induction hood

if you have any questions or dissagreements, go right here: http://www.thirdgenusa.com/index.htm just email Dave.

And this quote from our very own Thirdgen.org Technical Data page: "All Z28 hoods (1983) were switched from SMC to steel except the LU5 air induction hood"


If your 83 Z28 came with a fiberglass hood without the induction flaps, then maybe someone installed it before you because according to the infomation that has been looked up, all 83 Z28's came with a steel hood unless it had the LU5 option.

 

As we've discovered with other things, the numbers and what some site says don't always mean everything. Its a GM car. They use up what they have left over from the last year, etc.

Either way, he said it had functional flaps on it and that it came out of a CFI (LU5) car, so it makes sense that it had the hood it had.

 

Both '82 &some '83 Z28s came with fiberglass hoods,in '84 they had all steel ones.

 

They made the switch from fibreglass Z28 hoods to steel Z28 hoods roughly mid-way through the '83 model year. This is why some had them, and some did not.

 

sweet i didnt know my hood was a hard to find! heres my 83 z28 hood, its original

 

That hood looks awesome. You got lucky the junkyard didn't know how hard it is to find.

 

thats a really cool picture sideways, looks like it belongs in a magazine or on a calender.

-chillen

 

One of may best friends had an 83 Z-28, that had the 'glass hood.
It was an LG-4, 5spd car, and all original.

He found out the hard way, that it was 'glass, when he left the road, and tried to mow down several small trees.
One hit in the area of the right headlight, and with that impact, the hood came unlatched and broke into several pieces, and the hood struts lifted up what was left.
The car hit with such force, the right t-top flew off the car, forward, into the woods

Too bad, it was a nice looking car, metallic brown w/gold gfx and wheels.

 

wow...damn...that mustve sucked ! Thank you i know the pic came out tight, i didnt even mean for that to happen i just uploaded it on my comp. and i was like "sweeet"!

 

Well for starters, my car is a Z28 crossfire like my name states, it has every option available at the time, original hood and all, i would like to know where you guys are getting your facts saying the 83 Z28 crossfires had fiberglass hoods. i'm not saying you're wrong, i'm saying i don't think it's a stock hood. because you could take the 84 hoods (that were fiberglass on some) that had the same flaps but didn't open and put the crossfire "x-ram" as it's called, into it.

 

Who knows what GM really did with these hoods. Seems like some 82-83's have'em..and some don't. I do know for a fact that in 1984, the option of the fiberglass hood was not available at all. So if some people have seen some fiberglass hoods on 84's....someone installed them because that was not an option....it was deleted.

 

Hey 84customZ28, actually, that's not my hood. That's actually badbob66's hood. I just figured out what was wrong with his pic. He might be interested in them though. Thanks anyways.

 

My 83 Z28 (LG4) was built in June of 1983 and it came with a fiberglass, or SMC? hood. I know for sure because I am the original owner and I ordered it from the factory. BTW, hood type was not an orderable option. ....and yes I am an old guy.

phil

 

My first car was an 83 Z28. I bought the car in 1985 with 19k miles on it. It was blue like the one pictured above and was an LG4. It had the SMC hood. It shattered when a truck ran a yield sign and ripped the front end to pieces!!



Just because this Dave guy said it, doesn't mean it was so. 82 and 83 Zs had the SMC hood. I think the SMC hood went away when the HO was released.

 

My '83 Z28 is a factory HO car, and it came with a fibreglass hood.

 

Kills my theory! I wonder when Chevy actually did the cutover then. I just assumed that would be a logical switch point. Oh well, we'll eventually get it all figured out.

 

The only people who touched my new, special-ordered 1983 Z28 before I did were the guys at Van Nuys....and my LG4 Z28 had the SMC hood.

 

good for you. As stated before, it sounds like part way through the production in 1983, they did install the glass hood on them. It would be nice to go to a website to get the right information...

 

When these cars were new, I was under the impression that the SMC's ended with the '83 model year.

My best friend liked my Z28 so much he ordered a '84 L69 that was delivered in October of '83, and it had a steel hood.

The build sequence number on mine was 128728, so it wasn't an early production '83 by any means, being delivered to me on March 23, 1983...

It would be nice to get a definitive answer from Chevrolet....they had to have kept records of some form of parts/vendor changes during production runs....or you would think so.

 

I saw one in pretty good shape sitting in a junkyard this morning. I guess I'll go back to pick it up tomorrow now that I know that it's hard to find.