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Old Aug 29, 2019 | 04:13 PM
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Anyone know or can measure the cowl width of a 79 80 81 82 hood? I am gonna buy another stock hood to cut up for my 77 and I'll be cutting out most of the cowl/center, obviously I can measure my 77 hood. Pics make the 79 up look narrower and of course the front of the cow is more pointy, I just want to know the width around the air cleaner thx!
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103 views and not one 79-82 owner with a tape measure
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Old Sep 1, 2019 | 12:55 PM
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Peak 19 from the start of the rise 24
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Old Sep 1, 2019 | 06:07 PM
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Well my hood measures bout the same. To be clear is this what your hood looks like? https://www.corvsport.com/the-c3-corvette/

Think the ad is wrong cause it says hood is off a 79 so I just assumed that was the start of those hoods but it looks like 1980 was. Or it was replaced with the newer version at some point before the owner bought it.
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No the hood I measured looks like the one in your profile pick.
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Old Sep 2, 2019 | 04:59 PM
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Well thanks anyway! I'll prob just get the 80-82 hood cause it's $70 and I'm gonna cut it up, just wanted the narrower cowl for how i plan to cut it. Two days I'll find out.
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