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Restoration Project - Questions And Ideas

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blackstangt

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N8Dogg98 said:
Your in-depth knowledge is impressive... in fact, I wonder why you've bothered asking any questions since you seem to know everything anyways. This seems more like a *look at me* thread than an honest discussion about assisting you in your build plans...
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blackstangt said:
I'm looking at the HO Fibertrends factory-look hood, it says reinforced with aluminum in the latch area, is that similar to the reinforcement Cervinis does. I had the professor that wrote the Jeppesen turbine engine textbook tell me that ram air is useless for a car at normal speeds, so I can second that. A cold air intake will do.
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Unless they changed it recently, I have that hood and it is not reinforced.

 

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91TwighlightGT said:
Unless they changed it recently, I have that hood and it is not reinforced.
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Was there anything they spoke of in terms of aluminum reinforcement? How does Cervinis do it better?
 

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Cervini's uses metal tab where the latch actually catches the hood. I don't have a picture of it, but it seems to me that it is a little safer design with regard to stress and potential cracking of the fiberglass in that area.

I might see if I can't get a picture of my Cervini's hood when I get home tonight.
 

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If you want to replace the parts because they are damaged, that's one thing, but like every other post here, you contradict yourself by saying you are doing it for weight savings and balance.

I've tried to lighten up on stangnet members as for my rep has typically been that i'm harsh and straight forward (sometimes in a bad way), but god damn are you making it hard, so that's about over...

You really don't have a clue what is and isn't worthwhile or how much things cost. You have had good advice here from well seasoned members, all of which you seem to ignore. You're budget is way off, the mods you are choosing are not cost effective, you are doing them in the wrong order and you have a serious false sense of reality of what they are going to do for you and your car. Gas mileage? rollover? lol.

How do i know all this? Simple, i've been doing this a long time, and have pretty much everything you can buy.
Simply put, you are building a 20-30k car that is going to get circles run around it by guys here that put a couple thousand bucks into their car.

Honestly, you should have never made this post, because you already know exactly what you are doing.

Good luck, enjoy your build.
I'll leave you to your project.
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im open to advice on puttin a couple k in mine to run circles around ppl )
 
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