Fiberglass hood mods... crazy?

I guess when you're right, you're right...



Is the "race weight" hood strong enough for this kind of abuse? I will be going a MAX of 120 mph...


I never claim to be right, just opinionated.

This worked on my Dart, but I would play around on the highway to see how your hood will act at higher speeds before you take it down the track and have your hood come apart on you at 100+ mph.

I had a lift off hood from VFN on my Dart, it was light weight and easy to lift off. I only had four pins on it and never had any problems. The hood I have on my Fish is from US Body Source and it is noticeably heavier.

One thing I was going to do but never got around to was to drill another hole in the rear pins so I could move the pins down for normal driving to keep the hood from rising.

The first year or two that I had the fiberglass hood, I only had the front two pins to hold it on and I took a couple of those metal corner braces with the screw holes in them from the hardware store and dipped them in a rubber coating then screwed them to the front edge of the cowl so they angled forward just above the hood to hold it down. I just slipped the hood under them then used the front two pins to hold the hood on. My theory being it was faster to remove two pins verses four when I needed to remove the hood, I was only 19 so don't laugh too hard.