Not Another Rebuild Thread....

[McMurphy]

So I wanted to change the profile of my hood.
Not radically mind you, but enough to not be stock.

The plan was to raise the center section of the hood (the contoured arrow area) a half inch, and the middle section of the hood a full inch at the body line.
I got as far as raising the center section, and have paused as it did not turn out 100% the way I wanted.
In typing this post just now, I realized how I should have done it, and may go ahead and pull the trigger on the middle section with this better plan in mind...

Here is the hood with my landmarks drawn in, getting ready to cut:


The cuts made and the fill pieces tack welded on:



And the area after all the welding was done. In this photo you can begin to see what I am not exactly pleased with, the trailing end of this mod seems to slope up like an Evel Knievel ramp:


This shows the slope better:


I could learn to live with it since it is symmetrical and slopes evenly across, but I was wanting more of a straight line wedge look than the slope. I know now I should have used some half inch angle and welded it in from the inside of the hood, and filled the outside as needed....

Which is why I may yet pull the trigger on raising the middle section of my hood, using the angle iron idea. (and yes, the angle iron laying on the hood in the first picture is what gave me the idea of how this should have gone...in case you figured that out too. LoL )

One of the reasons I want to raise the middle section of the hood, is to be able to mount 350 emblems on it....