Front Reverse Hood
Here are the basic instructions and
pictures you need to turn your hood into a corvette
style hood. This is also known as reverse opening hood
or suicide hood. Do this at your own risk!
The main question I get asked is
"What do I need to buy for supplies?" All you will
need to buy is hood pins. Hood pins can be picked up
off of eBay or at local automotive stores. They
range from $6-25 depending on the style and quality
but that’s up to you.
First thing you will need to do is
remove your hood from the car completely. There are
two hinges: one on each end of the upper part of the
car which will need to be unbolted from the hood.
You will need some help to hold up the hood. Then
you can sit your hood aside for now.
Now remove those hinges that were
attached to the hood from the car. There will be
another two bolts per hinge to the right that will
need to be removed also. Now what you will have to
do is remove the stock latch from the front of the
car. It is bolted between the headlights and held on
by 4 bolts.
Now that you have removed
everything, you are ready for the tricky part.
MEASUREMENTS: You will need exact measurements on
where to drill. You will have to move those stock
hinges that were near the window up to where the
latch was.
The picture below shows you where
these should be exactly and how they should look.
Then you will bolt them into the
metal and to the hood. Personally I recommend
drilling three holes on each hinge to the hood as
shown in the picture. Make sure everything lines up
perfectly before this is done or you will regret it.
You don’t want to drill holes in the wrong spots. I
recommend at least two people doing the drilling and
measuring to make sure things are done right.
Now you will need
to put on the hood pins. Those must be drilled in
near the wiper blade as shown in the next picture.
As for the rest of the installation of the hood pins
it all depends on the style of hood pins you bought.
Instructions should be included with them and the
process is not too difficult.
Now the final
step is to find a place to drill a hole where the
arm can hold the hood up.
Here is an example:
This picture gives you an idea of
where I drilled the whole. Just use the arm to
decide the best spot. ALL DONE!! Now that wasn’t so
hard. Have fun showing off that engine.
I hope you have something worth showing off if you
are doing this trick to your car. Or at least a cool
paint job!
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