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The reason for doing this concept is my wanting an up/over air bridge for dual air cleaners up front, I have most of the hardware for that, but the pesky hood is in the way, and fabbing up hinges that BB69 drew up for me is beyond my time/effort/capability curve....so I got some hinges off junkyard Sat AM wandering around in my sandals full of Florida junkyard sand on a sunny day....
I going to fire up the saw to fab some wood blocks and clamp crap up in some sorta position to see if my theory works out.....
IF it does...well, I will have to see how to do a few things.....
#1 is to lighten the hood, going to take a saw to that huge flat panel area under the BB add on scoop, that may well save about 20 lbs of glass....that damn hood is HEAVY.....then I will see about some aluminum braces for the hinges...dunno where I will find support for them as anything up top there is all glass, no metal I find anywhere....me suspects troubles there....maybe I can poprivit in a 1/4x1" maybe 2' long piece of aluminum up and under the fender/hood edge.....hummm.....
so far the hinges are off a Ford Taurus, and a OLds Silouette/Lumina Van...
small and light, and seemingly having the function I want in either pair, I cut the springs off the Lumina hinges, as they are in the way...:smack
I going to fire up the saw to fab some wood blocks and clamp crap up in some sorta position to see if my theory works out.....
IF it does...well, I will have to see how to do a few things.....
#1 is to lighten the hood, going to take a saw to that huge flat panel area under the BB add on scoop, that may well save about 20 lbs of glass....that damn hood is HEAVY.....then I will see about some aluminum braces for the hinges...dunno where I will find support for them as anything up top there is all glass, no metal I find anywhere....me suspects troubles there....maybe I can poprivit in a 1/4x1" maybe 2' long piece of aluminum up and under the fender/hood edge.....hummm.....
so far the hinges are off a Ford Taurus, and a OLds Silouette/Lumina Van...
small and light, and seemingly having the function I want in either pair, I cut the springs off the Lumina hinges, as they are in the way...:smack