c3 hood struts
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c3 hood struts
Recently I saw (somewhere) hood strut supports for a c3 hood. Does anyone know who sells them or where they can be located. They are supposed to replace the old hood support mechanism.
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Team Owner
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From: Columbia Missouri
If they were mine, I had to make them. The struts themselves were F-body hatch struts and I had to make the upper and lower brackets using various materials I had laying around.
I don't know of anyone selling a kit.
I don't know of anyone selling a kit.
Racer
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Team Owner
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From: Columbia Missouri
I was worried about that when I designed mine, which is why my upper mount is actually tied into the hinge itself, and when the hood is down the strut is perpendicular to the hood, so the bracket again takes all the force off the structure of the hood. It's so effective, when the hood is down, you can drop it to close it from 6" up just like a standard hood. Above 10" and it'll lift itself up.
