The00night

If you dont know they have an advertisement in the back of super chevy pretty much every month. has anybody bought a hood from them i got to get one and was wandering how they were.

GTA-SPD

I had the "Twin Turbo" hood on my 82 T/A and I loved it. A little tip though, as soon as you get it, make sure it lines up ok, my first one didn't (the curve of the hood was wrong) but they took it right back and even paid the return shipping on it. I loved that hood, but my hood latch took a dump on me at 60 MPH and the hood blew off of my car and got mangled. All in all I was quite happy with the hood, and if I wanted a different hood, I'd get one of theirs.

David Culpepper

what was the deal with your hood latch

GTA-SPD

The actual latch just broke. The hook that grabs the striker just f*ckin broke and at 60 MPH the back up hook didn't stand a chance. It had nothing to do with the hood, just happened to have a fatigued latch. Thae hoods attachment points were strong enough to rip both hinges in half. The hinges did not break the hood, the hood mangled the crap out of the hinges. They are great hoods and the finish is awesome.

The00night

how much prep work had to be done to make it line up correctly and to be painted.....thats messed up about the hood latch but thanks for the feed back

GTA-SPD

Not a lot of prep at all. My body guy worked on it for about 30 minutes before painting it and it looked great. As for getting it to align right, that took about 2 hours. Mostly because I'm an **** retentive perfectionist and it had to be just right. It was pretty close to factory tolerances inside of an hour, but I just had to keep fiddling with it until it was perfect. Two weeks later, it blew off my car. Maybe next time "good enough" will be ok with me.

The00night

thanks for your input i think im going to order their daytona hood from them and make sure the latch is in good condition