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Originally Posted by keith k
BJ - I've wondered the same. It's been my observation that these things warped (if they were going to...) pretty quickly. I saw it commonly even back in the '70s.
My guess would be it had something to do with disparate temperatures of inner / outer panels when they were bonded together, or a different rate of shrinkage between the resin in the inner and outer panels after they were joined. It wouldn't take much....
Just a guess, though - my experience engineering hood systems is all around the metal variety.
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Keith K., That seems to make a lot of sense to me and I appreciate the knowledge you share with us Firebird fans. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason why some hoods warped and others didn't...any 45-50 year old Formula hood would have warped by now, so if you have a flat one, you are one of the fortunate folk.
Dennis