Reverse Tilt Hood

[guitaraholic]

I was thinking about going with a Fiberglass or CF hood in the near future. I do not however, like the look for hood pins. Has anyone swapped the hinges to the front making the hood up in a reverse tilt style (ala corvette). Its not for the "bling" factor, its so you can safely have a very lightweight hood and do it safely w/o the need for pins.

[Propaganda]

do you mean do "not" like hood pins?

[guitaraholic]

Originally Posted by Propaganda

do you mean do "not" like hood pins?

Thanks for the spell check

[Otto347]

reverse tilt hood, you want the flip flop trunk mod too?

[Supra989]

i have never seen one on a 240 but i think it would be awesome! my old e30 bmw had it!

[BustedS13]

Originally Posted by Supra989

i have never seen one on a 240

here's one



SHOW CAR DOG

[silviaguy240]

then you need to relocate the latch. might be able to get the parts of a s30 or a e30 3 series or a e34 5 series. getting the latch to work half decent would be the hardest. also i dont think s chassis cars have enough room in front of the rad support for the hood to pivot, unless you made a hybrid setup with the 5 series style hinges where it lifts the hood up a few inches then pivots, instead of hinging forward because it would hit the bumper.

[ryguy]

Or like a 240Z


or a Buick


You'll still need something to latch the back of the hood down. Also, if you look at those other cars, they have much longer, complex hinges. You can't just use regular hinges, I think it would look goofy.

Damnit Busted, beat me to it.

[wow-thats-a-cool-car]

you do understand how hard it will be to work on your car after you do this mod?

I hated working on my 05 vette you had to worry about scratching the body the whole time you were working on it and it was just pain annoying. Keep it simple and get aero hood pins or something.

[murda-c]

Only if it looks like the weld s14

[S14DB]

Tilt Hood Kit
The Hoffman Group - Configure Your Tilt Hood Kit


I think this would be structurally less safe then stock hinges with aerocatches.

[gsxr141]

i had a vis carbon fiber on my gsx and just used the factory latch. i never had any issues with it coming loose at all. i know they recommend hood pins, but it held fine to 170mph quite a few times.

[Pank]

^ how are you 37 and still giving horrible advice like this crap??

Originally Posted by gsxr141

i had a vis carbon fiber on my gsx and just used the factory latch. i never had any issues with it coming loose at all. i know they recommend hood pins, but it held fine to 170mph quite a few times.

hahhahaahahahahaha VIS



wow................... not even seibon, but VIS!


thats like sayin i've had unprotected butt-sex quite a few times and are still disease free.


ive had numerous, not one or two, NUMEROUS friends and customers have their carbon hoods fly up due to carbon-fiberglas de-lamination. do yourself a favor and run pins/latches.

[gsxr141]

just trying to help by letting you know what i've tried. i shoulda realised i would get the typical asshole zilvia member response. please feel free to go fuck yourself now.

[murda-c]

Originally Posted by gsxr141

just trying to help by letting you know what i've tried. i shoulda realised i would get the typical asshole zilvia member response. please feel free to go fuck yourself now.

Stop spreading dangerous info, you won't feel like a tool.

[gsxr141]

the funny thing is, i don't give a shit what you think. it would seem that perhaps a vis hood was built better than a seibon. but you guys buy what you want.

[guitaraholic]

Well the kits look like they are going for around $250 or so. I wonder how hard it would be to fabricate a kit.