well found this hood for $50 needed some work but i got some free time so why not.
I painted it flat black just for now as i had some paint left over but it will be done right this summer when i paint the car

 

Cool work... What's the story behind the scoop?

 

sould of bought a real fiberglass hood but for 50 bucks who cares great job

 

The only thing about buying a fiberglass hood is that if you paint it and you're opening your hood a lot the flexing will make the paint crack. Especially with stock springs. A couple of guys around here who went with bolt on fiberglass are now seeing those expensive paint jobs messing up on their hoods.

 

^^^ This also happens to be the same problem with fiberglass scoops pop-rivited and body filled to steel hoods. It looks good, but I hate to say it's proally not gonna last long before it cracks around the scoop. When it comes to cowl hoods all steel is the only way to go.

 

i would have to say that is not true i have a hardwood fiberglass hood and i have never had any problems with it and it has been on my car for about ten years and my car runs 9s and i have a 7000 paint job not a mark. a marrter of fact moust drag cars have them to take the wheight off the car some even have the fenders and trunck lid.vetts are made of fiberglass and they dont have cracked paint jobs

 

Thanks for the nice words. As for a story behind the scoops there is none lol just wanted something different then stock. I have a fiberglass scoop on my truck as well never had a problem with it.

 

No problem. I was just curious since it was painted with the same stripe pattern. Was wondering how much was done before you picked it up.

 

Well i picked the hood up just the way it looks in the first pic. As far as i know the hood came off of a project car from a local high school. That's all i really know about it. Just thought i would use that hood rather then a stock RS hood or a Z28 tear drop scoop

 

A fiberglass scoop or cowl properly bonded to steel hood wont crack, or give problems. Until recently I had the same L88 style cowl bonded to my steel hood for about 20 yrs., with no problems. I pulled it off to go to a all steel cowl hood, only because I wanted to change the look a little.
I mixed up epoxy resin before pop rivetting my glass cowl to the hood, then ground all the paint off and epoxied it to the hood, and rivetted it in place. After it dried I sanded the excess off, used glass cloth and glassed it into the steel with 6 overlapping layers. Then I used fiberglass base bondo to smooth it out, and sanded it.
That's pretty much it until paint, and if you use the right glass, filler, and resin, it wont ever come off or crack. If you just rivet it down and bondo it, it will start cracking in a year if you're lucky.