View Poll Results: Which FIREBIRD hood do you prefer?
#1: "Sunoco" style hood, for the Firebird as shown, rounded edges, the spine will be softer
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#2: Harder edges (like FYRCHKNs), with the heat extractor (with water drainage built in)
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40.68%
#1 Style (softer edges), WITH heat extractor
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13.56%
I am not interested.
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25.42%
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What's with the SES light in the last picture ?
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It comes on & off at random. Been doing that for a few months now. It'll stay off for a month, come on one day, stop somewhere & when I get back in? No light.
I pulled the code one day, forget what it was, but nothing to even worry about.
I pulled the code one day, forget what it was, but nothing to even worry about.
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Mine does that but more often than yours . Like the hood though . Can't wait to see what Dante93GTZ puts out as I live not to far from him .
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Shure I would be up for some fitment with a pre '91 car . Let me know when you are ready . I think it looks good on Stephens car so we'll see how it looks on yours and mine . I think it will look good on all of them . You're even making it for the Camaro to aren't you ?
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Sounds cool . Can't wait to see the finished product .
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i like them both, but im the opposite i would like a big hood. think you can build the big imsa hood. on guy has it one here from the cascade crew its the best hood ever.Attachment 208728
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that picture is gone, can you re-post it?
As far as the rest of this conversation... I think something more angular goes with the body lines of the '82-90 cars better, and a hard peak like the flat hoods and some of the cowl hoods out there have looks a bit weird in them, but a break/center line looks OK.
For the most part I feel that too tall a scoop looks wrong on most cars, but nothing tall seems to work very well on 3rd gen firebirds, 3" is about what you can get away with even with the right body lines, but even then it's all about proportion, you change the size and how hard the edges that look right changes. For example, I think just about everyone likes the early TA/formula style hood on them even thought the lines don't really follow the lines of the rest of the car.
As far as the rest of this conversation... I think something more angular goes with the body lines of the '82-90 cars better, and a hard peak like the flat hoods and some of the cowl hoods out there have looks a bit weird in them, but a break/center line looks OK.
For the most part I feel that too tall a scoop looks wrong on most cars, but nothing tall seems to work very well on 3rd gen firebirds, 3" is about what you can get away with even with the right body lines, but even then it's all about proportion, you change the size and how hard the edges that look right changes. For example, I think just about everyone likes the early TA/formula style hood on them even thought the lines don't really follow the lines of the rest of the car.
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not bad, id like to see it painted tho, and a few angle shots. good job.
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http://cascadecrew.org/phpBB2/garage...vehicle&CID=15
Two shots there and I also have this;
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I'm not too keen on how it ends at the back. I'd like to see it come to at least the windshield but it's still different enough to be cool.
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Hood was picked up from a swap meet a bit ago. FWIW, there was no info on origin or where the swap meet guy got it from.
http://cascadecrew.org/phpBB2/garage...vehicle&CID=15
Two shots there and I also have this;
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I'm not too keen on how it ends at the back. I'd like to see it come to at least the windshield but it's still different enough to be cool.
http://cascadecrew.org/phpBB2/garage...vehicle&CID=15
Two shots there and I also have this;
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I'm not too keen on how it ends at the back. I'd like to see it come to at least the windshield but it's still different enough to be cool.
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Mine is only 1.5" tall (used a wooden 2"x4" to hold it up) and I already can't even see the passenger side headlight when it is up!
I had a Camaro with a 3" cowl induction hood & it never bothered me. This one at only half the height, makes it hard to gauge where that side of the car is.
I had a Camaro with a 3" cowl induction hood & it never bothered me. This one at only half the height, makes it hard to gauge where that side of the car is.
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gawd that jap extractor is friggin sick! would love to see how it looks on pre 91 formula/fbird. looks awesome on the white gta....does water get inside it when it rains? just wonderin
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How's the hoods coming along ?
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Any updates on the hood yet ?
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Nope - None actually - Its a failed venture. I won't go into details yet. Let's just say it's best to know the people you are claiming as friends REALLY WELL before you venture into business with them...
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Oh boy, glad I didn't hold my breath for this one! ![lol](https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/images/smilies/lol.gif)
I never get my hopes up when something like this is announced because it ussually never happens. And Dante, sorry to hear about the "business deal" troubles. I have a close freind that owns a business and know exactly the type of "freinds" your talking about, after hearing his stories.
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I never get my hopes up when something like this is announced because it ussually never happens. And Dante, sorry to hear about the "business deal" troubles. I have a close freind that owns a business and know exactly the type of "freinds" your talking about, after hearing his stories.
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And Dante, sorry to hear about the "business deal" troubles. I have a close friend that owns a business and know exactly the type of "friends" your talking about, after hearing his stories.
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I hope you showed him what YOU thought about him.
Don't forget about this though. Maybe you can find someone else who isn't a deceitful ***.
Don't forget about this though. Maybe you can find someone else who isn't a deceitful ***.
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Hey Dante if my garage was cleaned up and you had the materials and more knowhow than me on making a mold I would help get a mold made so you could make these hoods .
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