Need your input, FIREBIRD owners, What kind of hood do you want made for the 'birds?

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Oct 20, 2010 | 07:51 PM

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Re: Need your input, FIREBIRD owners, What kind of hood do you want made for the 'bir

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I meant other than seeing 2 square scoops instead of 2 round scoops like the RAII hood that already exists, but see what I can do in PS.

Oh, lol Okay THANKS!

Oct 20, 2010 | 10:34 PM

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Re: Need your input, FIREBIRD owners, What kind of hood do you want made for the 'bir

Dante, any word on when the mould will be getting started or when we can possibly expect the first hoods to be completed? I'm getting all worked up reading through all this!! LOL.

Oct 20, 2010 | 11:28 PM

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Re: Need your input, FIREBIRD owners, What kind of hood do you want made for the 'bir

How about a RA2 hood, with all 4 openings, like my old Tahoe?

Or the lower 2 as a separate piece to be molded into the front fascia?

Oct 21, 2010 | 06:39 AM

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Oct 21, 2010 | 07:44 AM

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Re: Need your input, FIREBIRD owners, What kind of hood do you want made for the 'bir

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We have the resin and glass mat. We are waiting on our gelcoat and some other odds and ends to arrive. Once we get the hood, we have to body work it perfect, and then the mold process begins. We are probably a week or two out.

Great! That should hold me over for a little while. Can't wait to see the progress on it!

Oct 21, 2010 | 09:57 AM

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Oct 31, 2010 | 09:33 AM

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Nov 15, 2010 | 07:07 PM

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Nov 15, 2010 | 07:37 PM

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Re: Need your input, FIREBIRD owners, What kind of hood do you want made for the 'bir

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We _FINALLY_ found a 100% rust/damage free flat Firebird hood tonight!!!

What a chore that turned out to be around here.

I was originally going to use the Formula hood, but decided against it. This one will put us a step ahead of using the Formula one.

Anyway, we ARE working on it; its just taking some time - I will post some pictures of the process when we've got something of substance to show.

....stay tuned....

AWESOME!! I'll be keeping an eye out for some updates/pics of it!

Nov 15, 2010 | 09:19 PM

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Re: Need your input, FIREBIRD owners, What kind of hood do you want made for the 'bir

How about a hood that looks like stock but doesn't weight as much as an elephant but STILL uses mounts, latch, etc.

Nov 15, 2010 | 09:21 PM

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Re: Need your input, FIREBIRD owners, What kind of hood do you want made for the 'bir

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How about a hood that looks like stock but doesn't weight as much as an elephant but STILL uses mounts, latch, etc.

Those already exist. He's building a new design.

Nov 16, 2010 | 06:50 AM

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Re: Need your input, FIREBIRD owners, What kind of hood do you want made for the 'bir

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Those already exist. He's building a new design.

Yup - Oddly enough, I was really surprised last night just how light the flat hoods are. I expected it to be much heavier, but it was quite light, considering the overall size.

Nov 16, 2010 | 08:12 AM

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Re: Need your input, FIREBIRD owners, What kind of hood do you want made for the 'bir

Damn Dante, you got your hands full pleasing all the bird guys! Camaro guys are so much easier lol

Nov 16, 2010 | 10:02 AM

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Nov 16, 2010 | 10:17 AM

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Re: Need your input, FIREBIRD owners, What kind of hood do you want made for the 'bir

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You watch; once we get the Camaro hood, things will happen!!

My original goal was to make one first and use it as a market test, but the demand for both the birds and Camaros seems to be strong, so we'll just make both initially.

I can't wait to get some pics posted - These hoods are gonna be extremely high quality and are going to look bad-a$$.

Im stoked!!!

Nov 19, 2010 | 11:25 PM

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Re: Need your input, FIREBIRD owners, What kind of hood do you want made for the 'bir

I think a hood like this would be sweet if it could be integrated into the lines of a third gen..

Though i do like how this scoop just sinks in instead of popping upward as much as a lot of the above hoods..

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Nov 29, 2010 | 09:06 PM

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Re: Need your input, FIREBIRD owners, What kind of hood do you want made for the 'bir

I think the factory formula hood looks great but it being off set sucks. If someone where to copy the effect from the drivers side to the pass side to make it one scoop with a ridge running down the center. now that would be sweet. Vents in the front would not be a bad Idea.

Nov 29, 2010 | 09:20 PM

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Re: Need your input, FIREBIRD owners, What kind of hood do you want made for the 'bir

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The "Double Formula" hood already exists. Probably already shown in this thread, but I'm not gonna sit & look for you. It was posted either in this thread of another one the threads about making a new 'bird hood.

Jan 28, 2011 | 09:31 AM

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Re: Need your input, FIREBIRD owners, What kind of hood do you want made for the 'bir

I would like to see a hood similar to the factory turbo bulge hood, but instead of having it only on the driver side. Make it so there is on the passenger side too. With a gap between the two bulges like the WS6 ram air hood. Or a shaker scoop for a third gen and a hood mounted tach. For those that want a thirdgen smokey and the bandit car

Jan 28, 2011 | 04:09 PM

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Re: Need your input, FIREBIRD owners, What kind of hood do you want made for the 'bir

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Someone already said it exist.

In post #76, I made a crappy drawing on what you are thinking.

Feb 1, 2011 | 04:06 AM

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Re: Need your input, FIREBIRD owners, What kind of hood do you want made for the 'bir

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The hood projects are dead. I made the serious mistake of trusting a friend, who turned out to be a fiend. Should the need arise, you'll hear more about this...

Damn I was looking for a update but not one like this, ouch!

Sorry to hear hope you didn't lose to much money.

Dec 1, 2011 | 11:34 PM

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Re: Need your input, FIREBIRD owners, What kind of hood do you want made for the 'bir

hey how can i get one of those RA2 hoods i have a 2001 firebird

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Dec 2, 2011 | 12:49 PM

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Re: Need your input, FIREBIRD owners, What kind of hood do you want made for the 'bir

This is still my choice as well.....

Dec 2, 2011 | 12:53 PM

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Re: Need your input, FIREBIRD owners, What kind of hood do you want made for the 'bir

This looks like it flows with the 3rd gen body style. The hood has to flow or the entire car will look off.

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Dec 2, 2011 | 01:12 PM

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Re: Need your input, FIREBIRD owners, What kind of hood do you want made for the 'bir

Im curently doing a visual swap on my 2001 firebird so ill looking for sweet new parts and i liked the RA2 hood i seen on here. I tryed to find it on other web pages but i cant find it anywhere so im wondering how i could get one. thx

And if anyone could give me a good web adress that i could order some free catalogs for parts i would appreciate it, i have a 95 trans-am, a 85 firebird and a 01 firebird. thx

RA2 hood with the vents in the back, like the mecham hood for 4th gens: