Weight reduction
Burning Brakes
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Le Mans Master
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Team Owner
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From: Southbound
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Yes. Any 73-82 hood will bolt on at the hood hinges. At that point, you will need to determine what you want use for latches. 68-72 latch hardware will not work on the 73-82 hoods without reengineering on your part. What type of hood support will you use? The rear corners of the 73-82 hoods will not match the 68-72 fender tops.
Melting Slicks
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From: myrtle beach sc
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Bats, I belonged to Corvette Cleveland from about 1975-1981. A lot of the guys raced, and trailered vette race cars. I have the gauge set from a beautiful blue 69 coupe that was stripped to make a race car. There were "gymkana's" sic. and we had access to a real road course that Paul Neuman would race at, sometimes. It is called Nelson's Ledges. I raced the "clock" twice in pure stock B, until the NCCC rules changed and you had to install a racing harness in your car. I did not see this, but an avid lady racer in her pristine 71 rolled her car. They somehow got the wreck onto the highway, because insurance does not pay if you are racing your car. She got a broken fingernail from the accident! Lou.
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From: Eustis ( Area 51 Bat Cave ) Fl
then you have to make the edges of the hood match the edges of the fenders, some build up the fenders , like Priya mentioned leaving the trim on the fender helps, I have messed with cars that had the hood made to fit many ways but I really believe tweeking the hood not the fenders it the way to do it....
And... loup68 what can I say, I am just jealous of that kind of fun history....
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From: Stockholm Sweden
I have seen how different the Vettes are a hood thats fits just perfect on one car sits like sh*t on another car.
A friend of mine got a new hood and it was a lot of work to make it look decent.
So when i got myself a new L88 hood last winter i found a local company that made their own castings of the original L88 hood, nothing special there.
The thing was that they delivered the hood in 2 pieces.
The skin and the frame was not glued together.
This gave me the posabilitiy to adjust the frame relative to the skin.
I then installed the frame only in the car, with hinges and the hood latches.
I glued on the skin and aplied weights on the high spots of the hood and left it for a couple of days.
A minimal amount of job required compare with all the adjusting my friend had to do.
A friend of mine got a new hood and it was a lot of work to make it look decent.
So when i got myself a new L88 hood last winter i found a local company that made their own castings of the original L88 hood, nothing special there.
The thing was that they delivered the hood in 2 pieces.
The skin and the frame was not glued together.
This gave me the posabilitiy to adjust the frame relative to the skin.
I then installed the frame only in the car, with hinges and the hood latches.
I glued on the skin and aplied weights on the high spots of the hood and left it for a couple of days.
A minimal amount of job required compare with all the adjusting my friend had to do.
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Melting Slicks
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From: Allenton Wisconsin
Now RickyBerg you may have come up with the solution. I have a spare hood with a 4" riser scoop that I couldn't see over. I could remove the top shell and there is a guy in Minesota that sells hoods for $100. I could remove the top of the long style and reglue it to the 68 hood frame. No latch problems and would be able to adjust the height to the hood frame during mounting for fender alignment. Thanks T
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