i have seen lots of people make hood scoops and vents.. but has anybody made a home brue cowl hood??? i have an extra hood laying around and i was just thinking it would be cool to make a cowl hood with a couple vents in it..

its a work in progress...should be done with it this month:

sweet dude, definitely wanna see the after pics, im thinkin about doin this for mine.

thats going to look good... post pics when your done please!!

i will...its pretty tough not to warp the thin metal when welding it, thats about the only hard part.

Looks like a great start to fab that cowl hood...
Can't wait to see the outcome of this project...
Goodluck man!

Cool! keep us posted please. I was working on a few different ideas and this was one of them. I would love to see how it comes out. Thanks for sharing

yep think its a fine idea

about the warping try using panel bond instead of welding it and just a few spot welds if any. we used it at the body shop to do roof door trunk skins as well as 1/4 panels. also try all metal instead of bondo. its a filler material but its more weather resistant and dont crack and shrink like bondo. with the flex of a hood the bondo will crack and flake out.

mines already fully welded, ground down, and bondo'd. Spot welds work a lot better than stitches on this sheet metal...not too worried about the warping...ill bang out what i can, then sand it down and give it a few coats of herculiner. should come out decent.

Here is a really good idea of one way to do it. http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthrea...ight=cowl+hood

this is a buddy of mine

these are the best pics i have of his cowl

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that looks cool.. how did he do that? looks like he just cut the hood and bent it up then welded the grill to the sides.

That would be a bad design for a DD... I dont think your sensors would be too happy with water pouring in.