Everyone else is doing it

Pics of my winter body work

Seems like a lot of guys are re-doing body work this winter so I decided to take the plaunge myself. One of my friends and I have been working on this hood for about a month in our spare time. I'd say we have about 20 hours in it so far. I finally decided to start snapping some pics today...let me know what you think. The primer is a product called slick sand and is fortified with bondo, but its far from done...Later

Brett

 

the cowl induction looks pretty cool, i take it you are also putting in grabber scoops?

 

is it the hood or the scoop that is backwards? looks like great work ...frank...:bananaman :bananaman

 

I'm a bit confused... are these 2 different hoods?

 

Its a scoop that was turned backwards...yes....No its not two different hoods, the top pic is of what it used to look like and the others are some progression pics. Yes I will be putting the grabber scoops back in, I plan on powdercoating them black so they look nice....Peace

Brett

 

Who else is cutting up grabber hoods? I hope the list aint real
long. John

 

Yeah I hear ya, I wish mine wouldn't have had the scoop on it when I got it. The only reason I put a new scoop on it was because of the hole that was cut for the other one. I would have rather gone to a bone stock grabber hood myself...

 

Looks like an improvement, like to see it once you get some paint on there!

 

How did you attach the scoop to the hood before the filler? I have yet to see one that didnt eventually start cracking at the seem. Because metal and fiberglass contract and expand at different rates, plus the vibration, usually cause cracking. Although it's too late, I was thinking that epoxy they use to glue body panels on would probably work pretty good.

 

Well the scoop was attached using corvette panel adhesive and screws. After the adhesive dried I drilled out the holes and replaced the screws with pop rivets. Then the seams were filled with duraglass and we are now using body filler to smooth out the seam...

 

Hey I like the look of that hood! I may ruin your day here but, the pop rivets left in are going to cause all your nice bodywork to fail. The pop rivets expand and contract at at different rate than the steel of the hood causing the bodywork to crack. I learned this the hard way many years ago. While use of the pop rivets is good to get the hood together, once you have them bonded as one you need to drill out all the rivets and then fill the holes.
I bet I did my original hood 3 times before I knew this, another problem is the fact that the Mav hood likes to stress while on the hood prop rod, I connected the underside of my hood with some small angle iron that nobody even notices. Really made the hood stand on the rod flatter.
Dan

 

Here are the final Pics of the hood. Right now it just has base coat black on it as a primer sealer, so its not totally finished but this is its current state.





Brett

 

Hate to tell you this, but someone stole your bumper Just kidding the hood looks great. What's the view from the inside looking forward look like? Russ

 

Looks good!!!