Graphing a Hood Scoop?
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Well as some of you may recall awhile back I found that the owner of the car had purchased a Bolt on hood scoop.
Not a graph-able. (Has no surface to bond to.)I suggested the owner purchase a full fiberglass hood, or purchase a graph-able hood scoop.
Well he decided to scrap the whole scoop idea all together.
Which I wasn’t too happy about because without something sitting in the center of the hood, the 69 Mach paint scheme on the hood will look, Well it will straight out look retarded.So I went on, and now it’s came to the hood.
Well come body work time on the fucked up hood.
At first I suspected it was just the huge 1/16ths dent on one side of the hood.
By huge? I mean takes up 65% of an entire half of the hood.Well anyways I pull it, beat it, yada yada yada the best I can.
Decide it’s as close as the oil canned piece of *** is going to get, do the other side which isn’t too bad.
But it came time to block out the center…
Well guess what, the entire center line up the hood is bowed in all the way up the hood.Well ain’t that just great!
So my option comes down to fabricating that entire line. (Which I am terrible at)
Or cut most that entire line out of the damn POS and make the current scoop I have graph-able to cover it.Well right now the least time consuming option to me sounds like cutting the gelcoat off the sides of the scoop, bolting it to a board, and glassing extensions on the sides to give me a graph-able bonding surface.
I figure this way I can cut out and hide the line which I’d never block straight, and I’d get the scoop that the car needs in the first place.
Soooo anyways, onto the question.
Which way do you guys prefer graphing?
Adhesives, or glassing?Which adhesives you guys using?
And I don’t feel like spending the 80 out of my spray gun budget on a stinken double cartridge gun. So don’t go there. 😛Simple answer, if you feel the hood is too tough to repair, tell the guy he needs to buy a new one. :wak
Honestly Cerb, I can’t follow what it is exactly that your asking above? Scoop? No Scoop? New Scoop? Using the scoop you said you weren’t gonna use to start with? Modifying said scoop? Which is it?
Post pics of what doesn’t look right.
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