Fiberglass hoods require so much prep

Turbo92PGT

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Heres the underside of my ebay fiberglass hood. Its a single cowl and will hopefully be finished here in the next couple weeks. I skim coated the entire topside with glaze and blocked it using my longboard with 80 grit. Then applied more glaze and blocked that finishing with 150. Then primed that. Blocked the primer after guidecoating with 180 and reprimed the bad spots. Gonna block it again and then primer it again and wetsand it with 400 grit and hopefully just paint right overtop of that. But if not I'll seal it and then paint it.

The underside I filled in these stupid "slits" they put in the hood to make it look functional or something? And had to build up the front of it because of how poorly it was made.

Check it out

 

Turbo92PGT

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Used 3 cans of duplicolor "TRUCK BED LINER" on the underside of it. Its a good thing I did because its still rough but looks awesome and will hopefully be durable. If not im gonna be kind of pissed lol

 

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well I guess thats what you get for buying one off ebay

 

281pony

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you have more money into hoods on that damn car then performance..

buy a blower or something you deuche

 

screamin gt

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I was hoping to see some pics of the top side

why are you so concearned about the bottom? are you bringing it to a show or something?

 

Turbo92PGT

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I'll get some pictures of the topside here in the next couple weeks. Just want the bottom to look decent. I'm too picky lol

Andy

 

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Damn why all the hate? I think you are doing a nice job so far. Let's see the top side...

 

Turbo92PGT

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Thanks dude. I'll flip the hood over and get some pics of it as it is today. I'm gonna start blockin the primer with 320. I'm gonna check it over for pin holes and fill those in and atleast reprime today. Depending on how fast the primer dries I just might wet sand and paint it today.

 

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not bad mang

 

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why'd you fill in the holes? kinda kills the point of having a cowl hood, to let out hot air at low speed and allow cold air in at highspeed.

 

Turbo92PGT

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Ya cuz you know the carburetor and round air cleaner are near the cowl ready to suck in air through the new hood. Its not like my K&N intake that pulls from behind the passenger side headlight.

Plus I would've left them if they werent just "dents" made to look like scoops.

I sure hope I didnt screw up the functionality of this hood lol

 

Turbo92PGT

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heres some more pics. I'll take some more when its on the car and wetsanded and buffed too. Probably in the next couple days

 

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Turbo92PGT said:

Ya cuz you know the carburetor and round air cleaner are near the cowl ready to suck in air through the new hood. Its not like my K&N intake that pulls from behind the passenger side headlight.

Plus I would've left them if they werent just "dents" made to look like scoops.

I sure hope I didnt screw up the functionality of this hood lol

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its not just the intake part. there is a low pressure area between the rear of the cowl and windshield that helps pull out the heat. it wont make much of a difference though, if you had something like turbos/blowers under there then youd want to pull out as much heat out of the engine bay as possible.

 

Turbo92PGT

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Well that makes sense definitely. but since there was never an opening I didn't hurt the functionality of this hood at all. The only way it would vent would be if I cut out a bunch of the hood in the back. This hood is just for looks =/