Cowl induction and rain

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Longroof79

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Why not go to several different shops and get a ballpark estimate on painting your steel hood. I'm sure fiberglass hoods will require extra preparation.

On the steel hood, the black factory coating will have to be sanded off with a DA or jitterbug sander prior to priming and finish coating.
Have you thought of doing it yourself?
 

LukeZ

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Doing it myself may actually be a good idea... Thanks
 
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Greetings LukeZ & all; I had the same question years ago. As you exceed about 45 - 50 MPH the base of the wind shield becomes a high pressure area (hence) the best place to get forced air (NASCAR). I've been caught in the rain a number of times (Power Tour, Wisconsin), most recently coming home from Car Craft Nat's this past July. Mother nature put down about 2-3 inches in an hour & 1/2 right along our path home. 60 plus miles of down poor, half the people in their daily drivers (with 1/2 worn so called all season tires) were pulled over. I could only run 35-40 as I had new MT dot drag radials on. The back end was mov'in around 5-6 inches with wind gusts. Anyway the value covers, the front of air box & engine are all water spotted, but hardly a drop in the air box. So as I'm driv'in, we know air is going into the air box but why not rain? Apparently air can turn up to a 180 degrees a lot easer than water. As I watch the water drip off the tailing edge of the hood right into the cowl area below the wipers. Maybe if you were doing 70+ MPH (higher pressure) or more in a hard rain some would enter, but that would be a very unusual event. Bob Jr.
 

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LukeZ

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Greetings LukeZ & all; I had the same question years ago. As you exceed about 45 - 50 MPH the base of the wind shield becomes a high pressure area (hence) the best place to get forced air (NASCAR). I've been caught in the rain a number of times (Power Tour, Wisconsin), most recently coming home from Car Craft Nat's this past July. Mother nature put down about 2-3 inches in an hour & 1/2 right along our path home. 60 plus miles of down poor, half the people in their daily drivers (with 1/2 worn so called all season tires) were pulled over. I could only run 35-40 as I had new MT dot drag radials on. The back end was mov'in around 5-6 inches with wind gusts. Anyway the value covers, the front of air box & engine are all water spotted, but hardly a drop in the air box. So as I'm driv'in, we know air is going into the air box but why not rain? Apparently air can turn up to a 180 degrees a lot easer than water. As I watch the water drip off the tailing edge of the hood right into the cowl area below the wipers. Maybe if you were doing 70+ MPH (higher pressure) or more in a hard rain some would enter, but that would be a very unusual event. Bob Jr.
Thx for the input, vanrah. And man, that is one sleek looking car! Where did you get your cowl induction hood from? I was thinking Goodmark?
 

Longroof79

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Luke,
You may consider doing it yourself. Besides saving a bunch of money, you'll also gain some valuable knowledge, which you sometimes can't put a dollar value on.
There's certainly enough knowledgeable people on the site to help steer you in the right direction.
 

vanrah

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Good Evening Luke & all; That is a Harwood hood & I did have a body shop fit & paint it. Excell auto body did the work, very nicely I might add. They made cuts in the vertical edge you don't see when it's closed, for my hand (hood release) & the rubber isolators (4-2 per fender) so that it doesn't shake around when you drive. And for my .02 cents, I would never consider a metal hood. Why would I want to spend money too add weight?? Maybe for a show car? But for a hot rod it's got to be fiberglass, carbon, aluminum or titanium. Ok I'll through in chrome moly where necessary. Weight is NOt your friend, Bob Jr.
 

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