Chris06GT

So then what's the advantage of a fiberglass hood? Is anyone making aluminum aftermarket hoods?

pascal

Yep, mine is made by Foose. All aluminum.
I believe Saleen has one as well.

Kotobuki

Price. And variety. To make a metal aftermarket hood you have to invest in extremely expensive tooling to stamp all the parts, then assemble the top sheet and lower frame, then weld it all together. For such a low volume part, you'd never break even for a single design much less the half dozen or so different ones each company seems to manufacture.

For a Fiberglass hood, you make your master by hand, create a mold from (relative to tooling) inexpensive material, and then just make copies by laying glue and 'glass in it. (Okay, this is a bit of a simplified explanation, but it's the gist of it.) You can recoup your 'tooling' costs with a handful of sales.

The Ford Factory hood is $1,200 (roughly) which even with the OEM price inflation puts the 'normal' cost rather high. The Saleen is $1,500+, and the Foose is $1,000.

You can probably find similarly styled hoods in fiberglass for a little over half the cost of those.

flash_xx

Actually the Foose is going for 600 painted at CDC.
http://www.classicdesignconcepts.com...t_detail&p=174

Batenswytch

I didn't realize fiberglass was so much heavier either until this weekend - a friend's son has an 87 Silverado truck with a fiberglass cowl hood...and the kid asked me to help hold it up for a minute and HOLY CRAP! I was stunned! I had no idea it would weigh a ton!

Chris06GT

Thanks for the info

JT1652

Thanks for posting this information! My car was damaged in a hail storm a couple weeks ago and I have been looking for a hood. I just ordered mine.

mygt500

Mine is about 40 pounds and I have no issues with using gas struts.....actually would not have it any other way!