How To Make A Sheet Metal Hood Scoop

This is what i ve been working on but decided not to use it on this project i m trying to remember that i m not building this truck for me but to sell.

How to make a sheet metal hood scoop.

The shaker idea sounds pretty cool but i want to make the hood less flimsy and feel that the scoop mat and resined to the hood will keep it lite but add strength to it. Full open interior allows maximum clearance for your carburetion. Grind off the paint from the hood where the scoop will make contact with a 36 grit disk. Here metal shaping teacher lazze demonstrates how to make an m shaped sheet piece that could be used to transition between the curve of a hood or trunk surround to an apron or fender.

Be careful not to warp the hood from the heat of grinding. Rear section 20 long allows 21 1 2 width clearance underneath. How to make a custom metal hood scoop from scratch with ron covell 1 start with a shield shaped piece of metal roughly the size you want and outline of the scoop to be. I plan to round it off a little more with the fiberglass scoop.

Apply the epoxy to the metal surface and the fiberglass surface. Mix the epoxy with a popsicle stick. Mix up a batch of the epoxy large enough to bond the fiberglass to the metal. I also plan to weld a flange to the bottom of this metal scoop and maybe use it on another project later.

Do the same to the scoop edges where it will. This replica is the rare challenger t a hood scoop. 2 the first step is to make the flat panel into a lumpy mess but with roughly the right amount of curvature you.