I have recently made myself a custom ws6 style hood for my 92 teg. first off you find a 1997 firebird with the ws6 package. I found mine in the bone yard for 50.00 and measured it out and cut it to size. then I placed it on my stock hood and screwed it down. take your hood off and using a grinder cut under the scoop so u have your air holes. then once u do that take some bondo and fill in the spots where the new scoops meet the stock hood so it is nice and flush. now u have ur self a custom ws6 style hood. mine has been mistaken for beinging a black widow alot. it turned out really nice and the air flow helps out alot. I will post some pics so u can see for ur self
If you don’t feel like finding and hacking up a firebird hood, this will also work with those ricer universal hood scoops they sell at pepboys/ebay, Plus, you get to pick your style. My neighbor did this on his probe(I know, I know) and the HOOD looked pretty good.
pics?
that hood = :gay:
if u ask me hood scopes belong on muscle cars not integras :bye: another unwrittin rule that applies is flames on a import thats a no no. they belong on muscle cars and such not imports. sorry to ofend ur idea tho.
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pics would help. everyone is entitled to their opinion, i dont like the h00d scoop idea much, but hey if it looks good and it actually works, then kool.
okay if thats the case then why do they make the black widow style hood for imports. my friend has one on his civic and mine doesnt look much different.
Besides i get alot of complements on it. so that part i think your wrong. And as far as the flames, well i paint cars and now a days there are so many flame styles you can do and they look good, bio-mech,tribal, realistic,etc. I’ve got so many different styles i can do its crazy. And if you think about it, our parents had the novas,monte’s,mustangs, etc… Now we look at those as hot rods of the past. Now when my son gets older him and all his friends are gonna look at what were all doing with imports how we look at our parents works of art. Imports are the hot rods of today. So myself i look at it as creating a work of art. And besides thats called being your own person and making a style. :rockon: And for everyone thats all for the idea I will be posting some pics this weekend
GOOD on you man, that is the RIGHT idea about your car… you do what YOU like and be your own. Is the Hood painted and do the scoops allow for functional air flow across the engine bay? If so I would REALLY be interested in seeing your step by step process or something that could identify what you did to create it. I like the hoods on that car and if you do some flames do it bio-mech… those are SICK SICK SICK. I hope to see the end result soon.
no, the hoods not painted yet, but will be real soon. gotta get some free time you know the kid and family thing but it will be painted before spring. I was thinkin the same thing bio-mech flames. When i put the step by step on this weekend i’ll post pics and my bio-mech flame designs for all to see. They are all my own custom designs so if anyone out there likes my work send me an email and we can figure out something for whoever. like i said ill be putting all that on this weekend. oh yeah the hood is fully functional and you get massive air flow if you do it how i will be writing up. like i said i have got alot of complients on it.
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pics please :sleep:
Cool idea, but bondo + metal = bad idea and cracked paint pretty much every time. Same with just buying a fiberglass scoop and moulding it on.
As for the ram air hood on imports or muscle cars, I say it depends on the car. The LT1 style Trans Am hood slats look a lot like what you would find on an import but they still look good on the T/A, so I guess it could go either way.
…Just dont anyone let me catch you with a shaker hood scoop on your teg. :tsk:
Bondo + Metal = cracked paint??? If done properly, there should be no cracking. I have been doing repairs for many years and as long as the bondo is mixed properly and has cured properly, it should affix itself nicely if the metal is prepared properly. If the surface prep is not done perfectly you will suffer in the long run.
Well, no, if done properly, it’s fine. But it seems that when you try to mold fiberglass to metal with bondo, you get problems. They have different coefficients of thermal expansion, so as soon as it gets warmer/colder outside, that’s when you normally start to sweat a bit.