[John Haley]

I have been working on perfecting my hood to make a mold from it. I had an after market drivers side scoop insert that I didn't want to make a mold from. I was able to borrow what was thought to be an original N.O.S piece from a member.

When got it I put it in the hood and it did not fit right, it had a big gap on top and the gap all the way around was too big. I looked closer at the soop insert and could tell it was not a NEW part. In fact it had been broken pretty bad and someone kind of fixed it and painted it white. I told the guy I got it from what I found and he said to go ahead and fix it if I wanted to, so I have been working on it.

Here is what I found when I got under the paint and primer.




The rear of the scoop opening was cut back about 1/4" or more.




I built it all back to where it was supposed to be and them some.







A little more work and fittting on top and it fit better than my original, so I had to make mine better too!



It was real hard to get the tips right.



Lots more work on both of them and I have some real nice pieces to make some molds from, to make them in carbon fiber.

I made them fit real tight, .010 all the way around and a flush, level fit with the hood all the way around on the top.











I messed up the primer on the back of the one on the right a little, but I will fix that.