Back date long hood sits up a bit???
 

The OE long hood on my 75 chassis sits up just a bit ~ 1/4 inch. It looks like there is a difference in the later latch panel that causes this. I tried searching I am sure it has been dealt with but I could not find anything. Any body have a picture and or description of the solution?

Hoping ist simple like bend down the channel where the rubber seal installs.

I am a bit limited because the car is already painted. Did not notice it when I mocked it up.

As I was looking at pictures of other backdates I noticed one or two with the same problem. maybe there is no good solution other than installing an early latch panel?

Surely a thread on this somewhere.

TRE Motorsports (www.tremotorsports.com) makes a long-hood for backdate cars with the latch in the spot for the bulkhead on short hood cars. A little harder to open but you do not need to change the front bulkhead to the (different, longer) long-hood piece.

Dave Bouzaglou can help you. His handle here is "TRE Cup"

Hey Flieger - love your car.

Yah I am all about the TRE stuff but its way too late for that.



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I am hoping I can tweek what I have to work. Wondering what others have done.

Erik, I guess you missed that part about the front nose piece being different from '74>. I see you're using the rubber tie downs as the latch because the two parts don't line up. I figure you're going to have to try to eliminate the part that hits and keeps the hood up.

Put some clay in there to find the areas you need to take down. Remember to use vaseline on one or the other side so the clay stays with one part.

Hey Milt

I knew they were different but I thought that was just about the latch issue. Which I was trying to address with tie downs....

I thought there was a bunch of 74> cars with oe long hoods on them where they had not changed the entire front bulk head?

Good idea on the vaseline with the clay, I always have a problem with it sticking.

Erik
you need to install the early front bumper to body seal. In the center section, you will need to support the bumper and seal with a piece of aluminum. We take some aluminum angle, cut it to length and attach it to the vertical part of the front trunk panel. The resulting "tongue" that sticks out is what supports the center of the bumper. Then we drill a few holes in the seal to secure it in the center section. That should allow everything to line up and it will look more finished
nice choice of color too!

Check out BB80SC's backdate
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