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.