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Craigslist Hood Repair
Let me start by saying...
http://www.dumpaday.com/wp-content/u...ng-meme-11.jpg Prior to this i have never touched fiberglass or body filler or anything. I went into this with minimal expectation. Some of you may remember this thread. http://www.njfboa.org/forums/showthread.php?t=67844 Now that the car is essentially done, i decided to work on this little side project. Here are the pics of the damaged areas. Pass Top Corner: https://farm1.staticflickr.com/941/4...2bee44d08c.jpg Driver Top Corner: https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1865/...c768a510e0.jpg Front: https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1772/...8ff5276fe6.jpg Passenger Side Chomp: https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1839/...1d17644667.jpg Started off by sanding down the hood completely bc that seems to be what people on discover channel start by doing. https://farm1.staticflickr.com/853/4...7808bd1266.jpg All Sanded. https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1814/...f31c0fa7fa.jpg Wish i would have taken the time to take more photos of the proccess, but long story short i traced the corners of the stock hood, and cut out the shape in thick cardboard. Then wrapped it in plastic wrap. Taped that to the bottom of the hood and laid a few ****s of glass mat. I only used fiberglass on the Passenger corner and Shark Chomp, and just tog get back to the shape. The hood itself is very thin so body filler was used to fill the remaining. Mostly bc using fiberglass was like pulling teeth. If its up to me, ill never touch it again. Anyway, Pics. https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1818/...203741b6ea.jpg https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1795/...d5a10deb0d.jpg https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1814/...c769298d04.jpg https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1820/...73acc1878a.jpg Those pics are after the first pass of filler and sanding. I did 3-4 passes of body filler and sanding until i thought it was good enough to be wrapped and not show. Ended up looking like this. Perfect? Not even close. Good enough for a wrapped hood on a Skreet car? yaaaas. https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1811/...ee360523c6.jpg Next step was fitting the Aerocatch hood pins. I found a lot of people with F bodies end up using the hood bump stop tab things for the location of the hood pin pin, so i followed. https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1898/...1eab3f1ae5.jpg Bolted the hood on the car and got it aligned. Put some grease on the top of the pins and closed the hood to mark the location. Drilled a hole threw the hood as per instructions and then went online and printed out the template. They provide you with a website address in the box that gives you a template to print out for cutting. Template. http://www.deftracing.com/aerocatch_...operating2.gif Ended up covering both sides of the hood with painters tape so i can draw on it and make sure all measurements were correct so the pins were even on both sides. I used a dremel tool to cut out the shape, Dropped in the latch assembly and marked the bolt locations. Then drilled them out. https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1820/...bc47cd897d.jpg Latch in place(its not sitting flush in the pic bc the curve of the hood. They are soft enough that when you bolt it down it forms to the curve mostly. ) https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1874/...6f12fbc029.jpg Latch Latched in. Success. https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1819/...3b5b06fe2a.jpg Install Done ! https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1832/...8b12c0a02e.jpg https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1887/...2e871e29c4.jpg Time to wrap Again, other than the berger panel on my car i really have never wrapped anything crazy. Ive done 2 roofs before, but something so flat is easy. So again, going into this realizing i may end up paying someone to do this when i fail. https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1874/...e3d95d27a1.jpg I ended up using 3 seperate pieces to do the hood. And it wasnt as challenging as i thought, but then i did make some mistakes. So meh. Shadow Black Digi Camo for the cowl, which matched the berger panel. https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1857/...55698bd39d.jpg Now this is were i made of my mistakes. I underestimated how much the vinyl would show threw upon overlaying it. As i said i did it in 3 pieces. Center, Driver and Passenger. I did the passenger side first to see how it would cover the chomp. and it does well. However you can see a line from the camo under the satin black. Ill prob grab another section of satin black and redo the passenger side. But good enough for now. To prevent that from happening on the passenger side, i grabbed some knifeless tape and laid it were the vinyl will but up. So there is a very small overlap, and its right on the seam. Practically invisible. https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1841/...148f39fbf7.jpg All done. https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1865/...3656ceff01.jpg https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1892/...dab9423816.jpg Mounted up, still need to align. But as you can see it started to rain so i will prob do that today. https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1856/...318cfac20a.jpg https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1886/...38c23c8c68.jpg |
Nice industrious work. Now all it needs are some FIREHAWKBEAR decals
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awesome job dude. for the areas that you didn’t use fiberglass you just used body filler and sanded right?
i got a steal on an ss hood and the fiberglass is cracking on two parts. thinking of trying to fix it myself. |
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Looks good dude. Did you put edge glue down at the seams or for the wrap going around the sides? Or **** itttttttt
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Nice job. What brand wrap did you use and where did you get it from. I might give this a try on my fiberglass, primed hood.
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Nice job on the hood!
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Looks good, love the latches.
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Thank you sir, they were a pain but better than the old school style ones I think. |
Awesome job man, can't wait to see this car all put together. Photoshoot?
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nice job!
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Body is fun eh? Looks good and nice in person too.
Keep me posted on the dyno shens. |
Dude, phenomenal work
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