Anders Andersson, Double A custom got in touch.
He had bought a car that was previously equipped with a hemi and blower.
He wanted to run a modern engine with EFI
and was in no need for the big hole in the hood.
I popped by the chassie builder JS Racecars in Björkvik where the car was at the moment for some upgrades and rebuilds.
The new engine was in the chassis so all I had to do was to measure how hight the scoop had to be.
50mm higher than the original scoop would be sufficient.
I had an old mould for a Camaro hood that was a bit broken but the middle section was ok.
The front was in fibre glass so I made a fibre glass scoop part to begin with.
I used black gelcoat to make it easier to see what I was doing.
My original idea was to reuse the edges from the Camaro scoop
but the taller it got the more narrow it had to be.
I was forced to cut away all edges and try to freestyle it.
Here I had fastened what was left of it and started to cover the gaps and the hole for the mag44
with aluminum plates and packing tape.
One coat of fibre glass was put on the inside as it was.
Anyone that have done anything with fibre glass knows how hard it is to make it stick to a roof.
It was hard but it went okay. Then I put the front on its nose to make a strengthening on the rear part.
One that had hardened I put the front on its back and put in one additional layer all over.
Next day I could remove the aluminium plates and see how bad it got.
Lots of grinding and putty was on the agenda.
Some paint on it to see how bad it got.
Sure needs some more putty but its better if someone that really knows how to do that does it
rather than I'm wasting more putty and time and still only get a medium result.
A couple of weeks after the front was picked up the car got some fresh paint
and obviously some more putty...
Looks awesome!
