hood hinge

[manny]

today i will be working on making the hood hinge from the front in order to move the cowl scoop back much closer to the windshield. i want the hood to open from the back. i went to the junk yard and got some hood hinges from an old chevy van that are heavy duty and i will bolt them on towards the center of the hood and radiator support so that the hood flips forward. should look much better with the 4" cowl hood scoop closer to the windshield and some gauges mounted on the cowl vent

 

[Blue Thunder]

I have this planned, also. There's a particular oldsmobile from the early 90s that has a perfect forward-opening hood hinge setup, too. There's a torsion bar and everything. Junkyard wants $30 for it, I just have to get around to getting over there. Reverse opening hoods not only look cooler, they're also safer. (and yeah, a cowl induction all the way to the windshield would be badass.)

 

[manny]

thanks for your opinion i will be also putting some fender flairs on it like the ones made by maier racing for the 1965 mustangs. i'd like the car to have the road racing look with a hint of drag race too.

 

[TheEvII]

oldsmobile from the early 90s that has a perfect forward-opening hood hinge setup, too. There's a torsion bar and everything.

1986-1991 Buick Lesabre and Park Avenue.

 

[78CobraII]

1986-1991 Buick Lesabre and Park Avenue.

I saw the Buick in the local Pick 'n Pay but didn't have tools with me at the time. It looks like the perfect solution. Probably will have to narrow something to fit, but we are talking custom here.

I'd get the whole firewall mounted latch mechanism also.

I've seen a '65 Mustang retrofitted with this hardware...it looked great!

One potential problem with the MII...our hoods do not extend all the way to the front. This will require space for the nose of the hood to drop down into. I suspect that the top of our radiator crossmember is living in this space. The GM hoods and the '65 hood do extend over the grill, so no clearance issue.

Something I've been considering is to cut the MII header panel where the hood would cross it, and graft the cut piece onto the nose of a fiberglass hood. This solves the clearance issue for the rear opening hood and gives a bit more of a "classic" (aggressive?) appearance to the MII nose.

 

[Blue Thunder]

1986-1991 Buick Lesabre and Park Avenue.

Thanks, I'd forgotten which car(s) it was.