Fiberglass Hood
I'd second the bolt on hinge type for a street application. Although sort of a showy type deal to have the hood all the way off at a show or have it up on those long prop rods, it was a major pain in the back side to deal with the full pin on hood and trunk lid I had.
I used dzus fasteners to hold it in place so I did not have that nasty bad bowing you see on a lot of race weight glass. Especially with the Hemi scoop I had on it. Edges did get buggered while trying to put on and off myself no matter how careful I tried to be. Then it was the same thing as stated above. Nice to have all the room to work and look at anything on the engine, but then where do you put the hood, will it blow over, will someone damage it etc. etc.
Had a fuel cell in the back and pulling to the petrol pump was a chore. I ended up just popping the dzus fasteners and then pivoting the trunk lid up in the drain channel on the car as the edges were scraped up anyway from taking them off and propping it on the pump etc. to fill up.
Just my limited experience with glass components. As I mentioned, these were race weight ones, but if I had it to do over I'd go for bolt on street type ones. You'll still save weight over steel ones. Maybe not at much as with the race ones, but still some.
Cheers
I'd second the bolt on hinge type for a street application. Although sort of a showy type deal to have the hood all the way off at a show or have it up on those long prop rods, it was a major pain in the back side to deal with the full pin on hood and trunk lid I had.
I used dzus fasteners to hold it in place so I did not have that nasty bad bowing you see on a lot of race weight glass. Especially with the Hemi scoop I had on it. Edges did get buggered while trying to put on and off myself no matter how careful I tried to be. Then it was the same thing as stated above. Nice to have all the room to work and look at anything on the engine, but then where do you put the hood, will it blow over, will someone damage it etc. etc.
Had a fuel cell in the back and pulling to the petrol pump was a chore. I ended up just popping the dzus fasteners and then pivoting the trunk lid up in the drain channel on the car as the edges were scraped up anyway from taking them off and propping it on the pump etc. to fill up.
Just my limited experience with glass components. As I mentioned, these were race weight ones, but if I had it to do over I'd go for bolt on street type ones. You'll still save weight over steel ones. Maybe not at much as with the race ones, but still some.
Cheers