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I had a Caravaggio hood for my car since I bought it in 2012. It didn't fit that well, and at 1/2 mile events the hood had a tendency to raise up at high speeds. I didn't want to risk cracking or breaking the hood so I wanted to go a different route.
After long talks and thoughts about aftermarket hoods, I just wasn't sure what hood would fit with my mid-ram Holley intake so I decided to go a cheaper route just to see how it would go. We took a friends spare stock hood and went to town modifying the hood to fit with my engine. Im still up in the air on how it will look overall once painted, but so far a bunch of people seem to like it. The Blow off valve is quite loud now since exposed. So far at 120mph on an enclosed safe road, the hood stays snug and runs great. The hood is an especially rare Speedway white.
The square hole is where the Blow-off valve sits, we couldn't really adjust the intake pipe as it was snug and fit great into the couplers as it was.
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Considering you had to do something to make the hood work with your engine setup, I'd say you did a very good job with the cuts. That's a pretty cool motor you've built.
Thanks guys, Its new territory for me and I really haven't seen a bunch of modified stock hoods so we definitely pioneered this one with all the cutting. I was surprised how little we had to actually cut.
...Dunn, after reading and looking at your post with altering/cutting the stock hood, I began to wonder, since the hood is a injected plastic formula and I'm close to having alter my hood as well for a turbo fitment. I'm wondering if could be possible to apply enough heat (heat gun perhaps) and pressure to a specific hood area and form a bulge or shape for clearance and fitment. I am hoping that somebody can reply with a positive or negative in attempting this or whether this type of plastic won't respond to this method. By the way, good job !!....
P.S. If you still have the scrap pieces, would it be asking too much if you can try this on those pieces and see how it responds to heat and PM!!...
Looks good, I've been thinking about upgrading to a midrise intake like yours and was thinking about cutting my hood as well. Looks good although I would have made one big cut instead of two for the Intake pipe and manifold.
Looks good, I've been thinking about upgrading to a midrise intake like yours and was thinking about cutting my hood as well. Looks good although I would have made one big cut instead of two for the Intake pipe and manifold.
I was on your line of thinking as well, but stopped because the stock hood wasn't meant to be cut open, so i figure as little cut out as possible will help it keep its strength as much as possible. I actually wanted to cut the hood from the BOV to the intake pipe, but held off on that.
...Dunn, after reading and looking at your post with altering/cutting the stock hood, I began to wonder, since the hood is a injected plastic formula and I'm close to having alter my hood as well for a turbo fitment. I'm wondering if could be possible to apply enough heat (heat gun perhaps) and pressure to a specific hood area and form a bulge or shape for clearance and fitment. I am hoping that somebody can reply with a positive or negative in attempting this or whether this type of plastic won't respond to this method. By the way, good job !!....
P.S. If you still have the scrap pieces, would it be asking too much if you can try this on those pieces and see how it responds to heat and PM!!...
Sadly I do not, we tossed everything in the trash after the modifications as we were all sick of seeing fiberglass after 7 hours of cutting/adjusting/cutting/adjusting. haha.
...Dunn, after reading and looking at your post with altering/cutting the stock hood, I began to wonder, since the hood is a injected plastic formula and I'm close to having alter my hood as well for a turbo fitment. I'm wondering if could be possible to apply enough heat (heat gun perhaps) and pressure to a specific hood area and form a bulge or shape for clearance and fitment. I am hoping that somebody can reply with a positive or negative in attempting this or whether this type of plastic won't respond to this method. By the way, good job !!....
P.S. If you still have the scrap pieces, would it be asking too much if you can try this on those pieces and see how it responds to heat and PM!!...
I still got the pieces; I'll give it a shot. My gut, however, says no. The amount of stretch in the material would have to be substantial, and it already seems quite brittle in its molded state.
I still got the pieces; I'll give it a shot. My gut, however, says no. The amount of stretch in the material would have to be substantial, and it already seems quite brittle in its molded state.
yeah pretty sure SMC won't like that....
anyone in the thread near W Central FL I have a hood for sale
Here is the final painted version. I like it! Also the hood doesn't move at all even at high speeds...at 150mph it stays planted. Very happy with the results.
06-06-2016, 08:49 AM
Cut into a stock hood (No Maggie here!)
...Dunn, after reading and looking at your post with altering/cutting the stock hood, I began to wonder, since the hood is a injected plastic formula and I'm close to having alter my hood as well for a turbo fitment. I'm wondering if could be possible to apply enough heat (heat gun perhaps) and pressure to a specific hood area and form a bulge or shape for clearance and fitment. I am hoping that somebody can reply with a positive or negative in attempting this or whether this type of plastic won't respond to this method. By the way, good job !!....
Thank you?
