stupid hood decisions!

dodgedifferent2

dodgedifferent2

hung like a stud field mouse and
Ok i have the dart in at the body shop and the guy working on the dart came up with an idea to mount a cuda scoop on to the dart (he is not a mopar guy so i was a bit lost on his train of thought)


So after a night of exhaustive research i have come to the stopping point. If i were to take a 70 dodge challenger rally hood and grafted it to a 68 dart hood (with modifications)
how would it look?
would i gain about 2 inches of height? (can be done with more metal work)


or go the set route of an aar fiberglass six pack hood for the dart? and be done with it

The body man does not like working with aftermarket fiberglass because nothing ever works and would rather use steel for paint and alignment reasons (restoman jump in with the headaches of fiberglass):hmmm:
 
HELL YES!!!!!!!!! square up the edges of the chally hood center just a smidge(cuda hood would look like SHIT)..tho the chally center may need to be scaled width wise a bit to look right but i can TOTALY see taht looking good

no offense but the hemi scoop has been done to death and im sick of seeing it
 
I was planning on doing that to my '67 Barracuda. Seen it done with an E body 'Cuda hood and it kinda looked good. A Challenger hood would be awesome! :giggedy:
 
A Challenger hood is wide....that would be some modification. Funny, we're thinking of taking the Rallye hood off our Challenger and putting the flat one back on. :D
 
No, it wouldn't. All you'd end up with is expensive scrap metal, and here's why: you can cut it down, but you can't scale it down. The center ramp will be way too narrow, and look stupid. The length will be wrong (since it won't fit on an A-body hood), which would make it look even worse. The back ramps enclose the cowl vents on 3 sides on the Challenger; good luck making that work on an A-car. The scoops are fixed points, and can't be scaled unless you're going to cast new ones. Once you're done with all that, it doesn't work with the hood design, much less the whole car since the Dart is all sharp creases and very angular, and that scoop is very streamlined. It would look like ass, and you'd have hundreds of hours into finding that out.

I would stay with stock flat, no scoop, or go with a GTS hood if you can find one. I don't like the SS hood scoop either, unless you're building a cross-ram 426 Hemi. If you don't have those options, I'd suggest the twin-inlet scoop from a later fastback A-car, but to my eye it doesn't work with the body.
 
There's only one style of scoop that looks good on an A-body..........


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The Challenger scoops just don't fit with the A body style. Nice flowing, curved scoops on a utilitarian, boxy A? I don't think so.
I like the SS scoop that 68 posted, OR, an earlier version like that found on the mid sixty B body. The lower profile suits the A body better, in my opinion.
Glass hoods aren't that bad, and they are infinitely easier to modify than steel hoods. A few hours work is usually all that's needed to rough fit anything made of 'glass. This is where you find out if you have a bodyman working for you, or a collision guy.
I just fitted a really crappy 58 Vette hood and don't yet have three hours in it. It's ready for final fill and blocking now.
Welding ANYTHING to a steel hood takes some serious patience and metal skills to do right. Not many body shop guys are up to the challenge, and you'll be paying for any mistakes they make. Anything short of welding steel to steel, such as adhesives or rivets, will always show in the final product.
 
It's been tried, and it looks awful on a later, more-rounded A-car. Granted, someone cut up a late-model hood for this one, but it still looks like absolute ass:

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I guess I'm just not into "hood scoops for the sake of having them" as I once was. I don't think it works with the lines of the car whatsover, and that car's sheetmetal is seriously streamlined in the front and rear compared to a '67 even though the roof, doors, and glass are the same.

Admittedly, it would be easier to work the early Challenger scoop into the '67 hood as far as that front left-to-right body line goes, but I still think it would look awful. It's not my car, so it's not my decision, and I wouldn't destroy a valuable hood to find out after seeing that abortion.
 
Fishy said:
I like it cause it's something different.
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but maybe a few more inches out of the center...

I am just keeping an eye open for a hood around this area to cut up. Called a guy that wanted $600 for one today ... i laughed and hung up.
 
aside from the front lip or first 8 inches or so i think it looks like it BELONGS there!!!!!!

fishy now we KNOW it will look bertter an an A fish
 
69.5CUDA said:
aside from the front lip or first 8 inches or so i think it looks like it BELONGS there!!!!!!

fishy now we KNOW it will look bertter an an A fish
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Yup! :dance: Cut it down to scale and massage a few lines and it would look bad ass on my fish! [smilie=i:
 
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