Hood extension / Angry Eye Mod
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Re: Hood extension / Angry Eye Mod
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Re: Hood extension / Angry Eye Mod
it's so interesting how the slightest angle of the line can change how the car's "face" looks... I mean think about animation... most emotion is shown through eye language... makes me think of the movie "cars"
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Re: Hood extension / Angry Eye Mod
Heh, the orange and grey ones looks like "I'm angry! But it's nap time..."
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Re: Hood extension / Angry Eye Mod
i have an awesome idea how bout a little write up of how to make the angry eye hood hmm??
so first what you have to do is take off your passenger side door and make some custom vents on it or buy some body metal. even tho the door is just s good. from what i remember it was about 15" 1/4 from point to point on the original curve make a line on the metal than measure from the curve out to where the hood will end well in my case im guessing it as about 2" or so maybe a little more. oh and before you cut it out on the flat edge that will be the new end of the hood add an extra 3/8" out so it can be flod over to make a nice clean smooth edge. and than form it to the shape of the hood.
ans as you can see the curved part wasnt exactly the best cut i made of the day for eitehr side, but i made it a little bigger than i needed anyway to play around with it for where it would sit on the hood.
so once you have your piece cut out. you'll want to either sand down to metal of just make a quick pass or two with the grinder so you can weld the piece in. and no i dont mena make a fat bead down the hood. just make tacks pretty well start on one end go to the middle go teh the other end and do that a few time till you think its enough. like the little diagrm below.
ok so you have your welds done. now take a grinder or which ever tool you prefer and make the welds smooth. dont get crazy and take teh weld out. just take it down to a point where when the filler is over top and its sanded they wont come through.
so thats outta the way now for the body filler. i put on a good thick coat to start cause i figured why not. and plus once it was nie and tacky i took the cheese grater thing to it and took most of it off anyway, than let the rest go hard and took a sander to it. i filler the low spots and sanded down the high ones than once i was happy with it i took a block and went over the entire thing again to make it look just premo.
and once your happy with you newely made angry eye hood get it painted. mines not painted yet cause the cars not done. and yes i'l put up picks once its fully done
ther ya go simple and easy. it took me the better part of a day to do the enire hood. but thats cause i kinda got a little side tracked. but hopefully you get it doen and enjoy havin a sick lookin hood.and the doors wer my old ones.
so first what you have to do is take off your passenger side door and make some custom vents on it or buy some body metal. even tho the door is just s good. from what i remember it was about 15" 1/4 from point to point on the original curve make a line on the metal than measure from the curve out to where the hood will end well in my case im guessing it as about 2" or so maybe a little more. oh and before you cut it out on the flat edge that will be the new end of the hood add an extra 3/8" out so it can be flod over to make a nice clean smooth edge. and than form it to the shape of the hood.
ans as you can see the curved part wasnt exactly the best cut i made of the day for eitehr side, but i made it a little bigger than i needed anyway to play around with it for where it would sit on the hood.
so once you have your piece cut out. you'll want to either sand down to metal of just make a quick pass or two with the grinder so you can weld the piece in. and no i dont mena make a fat bead down the hood. just make tacks pretty well start on one end go to the middle go teh the other end and do that a few time till you think its enough. like the little diagrm below.
ok so you have your welds done. now take a grinder or which ever tool you prefer and make the welds smooth. dont get crazy and take teh weld out. just take it down to a point where when the filler is over top and its sanded they wont come through.
so thats outta the way now for the body filler. i put on a good thick coat to start cause i figured why not. and plus once it was nie and tacky i took the cheese grater thing to it and took most of it off anyway, than let the rest go hard and took a sander to it. i filler the low spots and sanded down the high ones than once i was happy with it i took a block and went over the entire thing again to make it look just premo.
and once your happy with you newely made angry eye hood get it painted. mines not painted yet cause the cars not done. and yes i'l put up picks once its fully done
ther ya go simple and easy. it took me the better part of a day to do the enire hood. but thats cause i kinda got a little side tracked. but hopefully you get it doen and enjoy havin a sick lookin hood.and the doors wer my old ones.
Re: Hood extension / Angry Eye Mod
You are the man! It takes some ingenuity to think about takin it off the doors, but was the curve enough? Was there any more shaping involved?
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Re: Hood extension / Angry Eye Mod
yea i know it was hard thinking i had to do, but i was putting new doors on anyways. but the curver was ok i had to kinda shape it a bit when i tacked the piece on. and i forgot about the little tit on the top of the headlight from the mold when tere made i had to file it down. but i just fiured body metal isnt going to be the exact gauge of the original metal in the hood so i just went for it and i have 2 others hoods anyway so i wasnt worried abotu screwing up
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Re: Hood extension / Angry Eye Mod
Be careful guys,or it'll look like you mounted ford contour headlights on yer mxs'
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Re: Hood extension / Angry Eye Mod
Thanks for the info on that.
Did you keep the OEM headlight rubber seal on underneath after it was all said and done?
Pics from underneath?
Did you keep the OEM headlight rubber seal on underneath after it was all said and done?
Pics from underneath?
Re: Hood extension / Angry Eye Mod
x2 man lets see 'em submarine style, from the bottom, ba dumpshhhsolo_ryder wrote:Thanks for the info on that.
Did you keep the OEM headlight rubber seal on underneath after it was all said and done?
Pics from underneath?
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Re: Hood extension / Angry Eye Mod
yea i've still got the seals to go back in. the same spot as before. and il get some pics on when i can get timesolo_ryder wrote:
Did you keep the OEM headlight rubber seal on underneath after it was all said and done?