Hood scoop to big?

Demonracer said

You say it was checked at speed, which is fine and probably it was only a few trips. Just think about how things are going to fatigue when it's driven for long periods of time at highway speeds. My 80's Pro Stock hood scoop was bonded and riveted to my glass hood. After about a year of sporadic 1/8th mile racing, it began to separate and pull the heads of the rivets through the lip of the scoop. I bought another glass hood and scoop. I had the back of the hood cut so the lip of the scoop was on the under side of the hood. That was approximately 8-9 years ago, there have been no separating of the hood and he scoop. The air entering the scoop will try to peel the hood or scoop off. You can run it anyway you wish, but there has been some good advice offered to you here.

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The hood and scoop together and independently are both basically trashed condition wise at this point. The hood is wavy, bracing beginning to separate in places. The scoop is trimmed poor, major chunk outs filled in. So I am in no way concerned. If I could tolerate the cost of a new one piece fiberglass hood with scoop molded in, I would, but since I could not, I spent a few days and $100 in material to sand/repair/spray paint/upgrade hardware on the the hood and scoop that is here. I drive the car and it’s fine. I respect all the good advice offered on it, but how the hood scoop is mounted is still the least concern on the car, compared to the rest of the body work needed on it eventually… I spent a little time and redid the install to be better than before and left it at that.