Guro 305

..........I wanna hear your stories. I almost have mine done but what a major pain in the *******!!!!!! Realigning headlights, fenders, bumper, you name it, I wanna hear about it.

EvilCartman

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My Harwood 3 inch cowl fits on pretty darn good. Just trimmed the big shipping protection edge off to make it look like the factory hood's lip, bolted to the hood hinges, wiggled it around a little, done!

UDAMON

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same here that lip is a nightmare. trimmed too much in front and had to go to hoodpins to bring in down enough.. oops.

looks good though

Guro 305

So you used hoodpins to even out the lip with the nose? I was going to try to raise the nose up a little first.

UDAMON

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yeah what happened when i cut the front lip off when it latched there was like a quater inch gap. i was ready to shoot myself cuz i cut off two much. i dont know if latch is adjustable or not but i just wound up taking it off and the hood was able to lay flat on the nose. bought some 1 dollar pins off ebay and all worked perfectly

Guro 305

After you told me that, I thought about doing the same. The damn thing just doesn't get low enough. I have a similar gap to what you had and the ends of the hood do not line up with the fenders. After you said what you did with the hoodpins, I thought maybe I had to do the same. How and what did you use to drill through the hood?

UDAMON

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i used a dremel with a cutting wheel. i can get you pictures if you like. it was kind of a guess and check process. but turned out well.

Guro 305

Please do man. I think it'll be quicker and easier then to keep readjusting things!

UDAMON

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ok heres how they look and where i installed them at. hope this helps





drivers side:


and passengers:

HCR13

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I put my hood pins more toward the edge of the rad support. What I did is marked about where I wanted the pins to be then drilled from the outside (top) down so I had a clean hole while the hood was closed, then simply bolted the pins...

alicat

My ss hood fitted ok,just has a slight bow around the left hinge area,which seems to be excess material.Otherwise i put some hood pins in as the hoods sometimes flex above the headlight pockets at speed,and with the pins it's solid.

Alicat.

MavViper

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I had mine made from a fiberglass shop in Orange, hence why mine looks different than every elses. It fit perfectly, . The lines are perfect too, just at the hinges it sticks up a little but that's because I don't have any struts on it.

Unfortunately on my hood the place mount the latch is too far back so it couldn't latch at all. So I removed it and have just hood pins in place. Mine are halfway between UDAMON's location and the bump stops for the hood. Haven't had any issues yet. Once I had it lined up and everything, the front edge sits fairly close to the nose so there's no real danger of it trying to lift up. My signature is an old picture so don't go by that gap

Guro 305

Yes it did man. I put mine in yesterday finally. It was a sinch. They corrected most of the alignment problems. There is still some gapping in the front by the nose but that's mostly because the front nose isn't bolted down nice and tight yet. Hopefully I can get to it today and it'll be much better.

Thanks again.

86FireBird305

my hood was a bit of a bitch to get on right because i was in a front end collision at one point so its never exactly the same....thats why it fits like a glove on the pass. side but fits like ish on the drivers side

Frozer!!!

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Im still struggling to get my 4 cowl hood to line up. I think my passenger side hinge is bent or something. I spent like 3 hrs trying to adjust it but it just wont get how i like it!

Frozer!!!

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Heres what I mean. first pic is of the passenger side that just wont align. Thats the hooding you can see through the gap. Second pic is the drivers side that aligns up nicely. Guess I should just pick out a new hinge from the bone yard.
http://images1.filecloud.com/596889/DSC02445.JPG

http://images.filecloud.com/596890/DSC02446.JPG

Guro 305

I feel you guys pain. I know my car was hit before I owned it.

The first thing I remember was the hood would pop open on it's own 13 years ago. A little hammer action and it was fine. It never bothered me until recently that my headlights were always misaligned. Well, after so many adjustments, I finally gave up and used the hoodpins. They can get the hood closer to correct then anything else. I just tweak the hoodpins a little and get 'em to align whichever way is best for either side.

86bird', I have the same problem but backwards. The passenger's side was hit and fits fine but the drivers side which is a-ok, fits like crap. I found out the passenger's side was hit because all the rust underneath is on the passenger's side. All the missing panels and screws are on the passenger's side. What reassured me was when I was doing a little hammer action again getting the fenders and stuff bent properly, the top part of the fender by the nose cracked. I was like WTF?!

Metal doesn't crack. Well, chipped off the cracked paint and found bondo underneath it. Bondoed the nice little smooshes and dents under there. Dammit man, more work for me.