Ok guys, what do I do about the hood?

Option 1:
-WS6 hood, professionally blocked, prepped, and painted. Cost= ~$1000

Option 2:
-Get sandpaper and a can of Duplicolor and poorly try to repaint the spots. Will not blend well and look like trash. Cost= ~$25

Option 3:
-Lund stick-on hood scoops. Can of Duplicolor. Cheesy and easy to spot. No need to blend. Car DOES have the power to back up such a ricey mod. Cost= $75-80


I'm REALLY leaning toward the scoops. I think they would offer just the right amount of ricey-look to make people think my car is even slower than it is.

NO SCOOPS, try to sand it yourself and paint it, if that doesnt work do the hard way, get it done professionaly, but do NOT do the hood scoops

See how much a WS6 scoop would cost, with a shop molding it in and painting it. It might save you compared to a full aftermarket hood.

scoops never come out good, boosten said it all

i would go with a whole hood, i got mine for about 550, plus prep/paint. you can get an oem hood for ~250 if you cant fix the hood and dont need an aftermarket one

if you geta ws6 hood i could get it all preped and painted for ya ... i could even help you out with the stock hood if you were only closer could have that hood done in a saterday

Here's the other thing though...

I have $2000. That's it. Every penny to my name, and $2000 is all I have.

Plus, I'm going to need about $500 of that to pay for labor and extras to get my car just running again.

And then, I'm going back to school in the fall.

Basically, I have absolutely no money left. I only come home with like $220 a week, and all but maybe $100 get's spent on living expenses.

I'd love to get a WS6 hood, but truth is, I can't afford ANYTHING anymore. The F.1 hood isn't bad but that's still like $750. And I'll never get the SD hood because I think it is uglier than sin.

go to a junkyard and get a stock hood

My yard doesn't have any hoods in any condition to sell.

Either they have burnt to a crisp, or are smashed beyond all usage.

BTW, ordonez, sig's sick man, nice work!

hmm, then maybe try and fix it yourself... and if it comes out crappy, try something else.

and thanks for the props on the sig

I was going to say it looked a little big, but then remember that I'm used to reading the boards at 1600x1200 resolution on my computer, as opposed to 1024x768 on my gf's computer here...


Oh, um... if I was REALLY patient and careful and properly supplied, would I be able to paint a hood myself? I just read something on a turck forum about painting a fiberglass fender, it's the same material so I dunno...

Maybe get the stick-on scoops, cut holes in the hood, and use Bond-O to mold it into the hood?

I could just repaint the entire hood then, instead of trying to blend it. I know it won't match the rest of the car but what do oyu guys think?

Man if you had posted this just a little earlier I could have tried to get Shaun's (x1fastgtpz over ClubGP) WS6 hood but I sure it's gone by now. He's parting out his car and he lives around here so it wouldn't have been too far to come and pick up. Plus it was already painted red which you could run until you had more money to get it painted.

idk, i copied the size of brown's sig....

maybe just paint the hood black?

Id say just save yerself the grief and buyers-regret and get the durn WS6

Lone, if you want to do this yourself, here's my take:

Find a shop that can match paint and put it in a spray can (or just mix it if you have a compressor). Get a compatible clear coat.

Leave the hood on the vehicle and just lay a tarp around it and under the edges to protect everything from overspray. Wet sand it with 600gr and be sure to get anything that is peeling off. If you have to, smear a little bondo glaze over the burn area and sand again to make it even. Then degrease and paint it. Wet sand again if you made any runs or got a lot of orange peel. Then hit it with clear. Then hit it with a buffer (cheap porter cable random orbital).

It might not be perfect, but if you take your time you should be fine. The color matching is the important part, hopefully they did their part and the color will match the already faded paint without blending. The worse that would happen is the hood is shinier than the rest of the car... but now you have a buffer to remedy that.

If you're in a bind financially, definetly take care of it yourself. What Rook said sounds pretty good.

a shop wont be able to match the color of your car 100% when you mix up paint they make it blendably close and i dont know how well you will be able to run paint in a rattle can over the hole hood because since its such a large area you will get zebra stripes, but if you do decide to repaint it

run 320 soft pad DA over the hole hood then if you have pits or chips you can fade them out or use glazing putty not body filler glazing putty sands better and it goes on smoother. then if you do have to putty then block the spots with 320 grit then soft pad 600 the hole hood then wax and grease remover then mask off areas toutch up skuffing your edges and then a coupple coats of self etch primer then just a reg primer surfacer if you need to block the primer then you use sealer then you can go with your paint

I only have the red one there because it's th ebest photoshop job. Couldn't figure out the filter thing real well so the black is kind of off.

I don't know what to do about my car anymore...

Whats the cheapest hood with scoops in it because like me every penny counts (WS6 scoop, etc.)

How about doing something cheap and custom, like heat extractors, or covering up a bad blend with stripes or decals? Your paint will be hard to match, golds and silvers (and variations like bronze) always are.

Y'know what, my birthday is in about a week... (Febuary 8th)

Maybe I can scrounge up some dough and get a hood.

I think as much as I like the WS6 hood, it will be too gaudy looking on my SE body. I think the F.1 hood is low-profile enough that it wouldn't look too bad.

Now, the one on PFYC, that's ram-air right?

Could I modify my existing airbox to use that? I mean, the SLP air box is nothing but a normal air box with a hole in the top right?

Then I could just get a drop-in style K&N filter and get rid of that gaudy HAI...

I agree the W6 hood would be a little much on an SE,and do'nt forget any hood you buy will still require painting (around $500) and unless you have experience trying to bond on hood scoops will probably not turn out good,another option is to go with the carbon fiber cowl hood from W-Body store you would'nt need to paint it ,if you do decide to work on your own hood and paint take the hood off and put it on saw horses,you can rent spray equipment and paint yourself although a hood is a difficult first project and in your case I would use a single stage paint.Chico(pops)

the big question here is are you worried about the hood being functional of just for looks?...to be honest even the functioning ram air hoods (like mine) probably dont really move much air in that direction. The outlet hole over the airbox is pretty small. I would almost venture to say you still get as much air by the headlight.
You could shop around on eBay on find yourself a bolt-on hood scoop (there are few styles out there)
Getting a WS6 hood right now might be a tough call since the last time I checked ASCD's website they had posted a panel that the owner Rex Orr had passed away and operations were in limbo.
Dont get me wrong, I do like the look of my hood, but if I had it to do all over again I would take a different route. It was expensive and I'm still not entirely pleased with the fit and the underhood clearance from the scoop tunnel is a problem I'm not happy about.
Plus if $2k is all you got to your name I wouldnt tap myself out on a hood.

If you do decide to replace the hood, Ed Morad still has the Special Edition one for sale; just another option to consider...

As tapped for cash as you are any temp fix is better then it is now. Rattle can will do. You can always do some kind of design stripe or what ever if your not happy with the color.

If you dont have the $$$ dont buy the hood....I have 2 stock hoods, black in great shape...you could have either one...thing is the distance. My brother in law is a long distance trucker...Im not sure where you are...but it might be possible....

http://www.grandprixforums.net/f11/hoods-683.html

This link is about a guy that is going to start building hoods, he's doing it for about 200 to 250 a hood, no taxes and that's before shipping... he sounds like he'd be a guy to look into, he's doing F1, ASCD, and WS6

i dont know if u can get on this site... but join it it's a good one too, just not as good this one

None of the "ram-air" hoods are going to get you any performance gain. They dont do much of anything, pretty much a looks thing

anyone have links to get scoops maybe i will add some to my hood ... i dont want stick on scoops i want actual scoops like the ram air or the F1 style i should be able to make it work if anyone has some links

im pretty sure that ebay has a lot of them

i didnt find anything i like on ebay ... i should try to find a hood and mold a old school scoop into it such as this

http://www.jcwhitney.com/autoparts/Product/tf-Browse/s-10101/Pr-p_Product.CATENTRY_ID:2010323/p-2010323/N-111+10201+600002538/c-10101

i should be on the lookout for a hood now

woot woot!!! haha

awww...

i think its nice

rooks always got the answers =]

Well, my birthday is Feb. 8th.

I wonder if I can get enough money from the family to get me a new hood.

If I do, it's going to be the ram-air on pfyc.com.

I'd like to get one made by the guy in Eau Claire for $250 but with his gf breaking her ankle, I'm not going to hold my breath on it.

If I do get it, should I have it painted to match my car, painted a different color, or get the carbor fiber one, seeing as it's going to cost at least $200 to get it painted anyway.

I dunno about the carbon fiber though, I like the weight reduction but MAN are carbon fiber hoods ricey...

carbon fibre started in the racing world, ricers demolished it thinking a $600 CRX is a Laguna Seca road racing machine that will run 200MPH in the straights and pul 10G's on the skid padand hang corners at like 90MPH... Carbon fibre, kevlar, and fiberglass all started in auto racing, REAL auto racing, not 4 banger klasses, show the rice munkees in your town what CF really stands for, performance

i personally like Painted CF, my friend hates it but he is a ricer and has a 2.0 Turbo four banger he swears up and down will beat any GP or GTP on this forum and in the world, but then again, he thinks his moms 3.1 Camaro is fast and its falling apart, and his kar wont run, so you make the assumption

www.FXDesigns.com

has alot of scoops, when you go there, wait for the main site to load then go to universal scoops and spoilers,

also Extreme Dimensions, Summit, JC Whitney, and many other places

Yeah, I don't feel like spending $150 on a set of FAKE hood scoops.

fake .... i wanna make functional hood scoops and then fiberglass all the ductwork down to an airbox such as like a k&n type setup ... but thats along way down the road...

if you do decide to redo your hood make shure you use a self etch on all the bare metal

NO STICK ON SCOOPS!!!!! Get hold of Ed. I've seen some Limeted Edition hoods/stock for sale every once in awhile for cheap and looked nice! shipping is like $150 tho, but it might be worth it.

Zerg.....what ever happen to this idea?


Don't worry we all wished money grew on trees.

I might be getting the F1 hood soon. Might....

It's going to be on hold until I find a job where I can make more than $8.15 an hour.

The parts stores don't carry my cars color, which means I'll have to have th epaint custom-made.

So that rules out the stick-on scoops or cheap repair.

Looks like the burn marks are going to stay for a while.