A New Poll!
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One of the things I don't like about my Mach is the prop up rod to keep the hood open. But, I guess the Ford engineers knew what they were doing. That would be your ceapest and probably safest bet to keep the hood from twisting.
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ORIGINAL: dodgestang
This is a question best answer through experience and with pictures.
I have a fiberglass hood with a metal frame.
I chose to use the light weight springs.
When it was brand new, it fit perfect, now that it has been on the car for about a year,
even with the lightweight springs it has started to cause a slight bow in the hood, I have been considering adding the prop rod over the winter before it gets too bad.
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11 months or so after painted (sorry for the large size so I linked it instead of imbedding it)
http://www.dodgestang.com/newmustangimages/img0266.jpg
This is a question best answer through experience and with pictures.
I have a fiberglass hood with a metal frame.
I chose to use the light weight springs.
When it was brand new, it fit perfect, now that it has been on the car for about a year,
even with the lightweight springs it has started to cause a slight bow in the hood, I have been considering adding the prop rod over the winter before it gets too bad.
...
11 months or so after painted (sorry for the large size so I linked it instead of imbedding it)
http://www.dodgestang.com/newmustangimages/img0266.jpg
Despite the popularity of the springs, I'd like to not take the chance with bowing the hood. Looks like a prop rod is in order... 
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I don't mean to hi-jack but since it seems that the thread subject has already been resolved I have a pretty stupid question: When the fiberglass gets painted and you rub your hand along it do you still get the splinters or does the paint cover that up? Just wondering...
Just wondering...
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Hmm, I always enjoy looking at your car dodgestang. Im thinking about a shelby hood..... or at least a new metal hood, and buy a shelby scoop, and fiberglass it to the hood. My old hood is fried.
Im thinking about a shelby hood..... or at least a new metal hood, and buy a shelby scoop, and fiberglass it to the hood. My old hood is fried.
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RE: A New Poll!
ORIGINAL: 6mustang6
Hmm, I always enjoy looking at your car dodgestang. Im thinking about a shelby hood..... or at least a new metal hood, and buy a shelby scoop, and fiberglass it to the hood. My old hood is fried.
Hmm, I always enjoy looking at your car dodgestang.
Im thinking about a shelby hood..... or at least a new metal hood, and buy a shelby scoop, and fiberglass it to the hood. My old hood is fried.
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RE: A New Poll!
ORIGINAL: 67Sally
I don't mean to hi-jack but since it seems that the thread subject has already been resolved I have a pretty stupid question: When the fiberglass gets painted and you rub your hand along it do you still get the splinters or does the paint cover that up? Just wondering...
I don't mean to hi-jack but since it seems that the thread subject has already been resolved I have a pretty stupid question: When the fiberglass gets painted and you rub your hand along it do you still get the splinters or does the paint cover that up?
Just wondering...
My underside is unsanded...and I've never run my hand on it
but on the finished side...its just like another part of the car in texture....except a magnet doesn't stick to it. However even on the unsanded, unjelled, unsmoothed underside, if you ran your hand on it you should not pick up fiberglass splinters.
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RE: A New Poll!
my hood actually stays up without anything holding it up but when i actually start driving it im gonna go with a prop rod to make sure the hood doesnt get warped from springs