How To Make A Sheet Metal Hood Scoop

The shaker idea sounds pretty cool but i want to make the hood less flimsy and feel that the scoop mat and resined to the hood will keep it lite but add strength to it.

How to make a sheet metal hood scoop.

Mix up a batch of the epoxy large enough to bond the fiberglass to the metal. 2 the first step is to make the flat panel into a lumpy mess but with roughly the right amount of curvature you. Interior flange permits user to fasten to hood by using rivets sheet metal screws or bolts. I plan to round it off a little more with the fiberglass scoop.

Full open interior allows maximum clearance for your carburetion. This is what i ve been working on but decided not to use it on this project i m trying to remember that i m not building this truck for me but to sell. Do the same to the scoop edges where it will. Apply the epoxy to the metal surface and the fiberglass surface.

I also plan to weld a flange to the bottom of this metal scoop and maybe use it on another project later. Follow the instructions on the epoxy packaging for mixing ratios. Grind off the paint from the hood where the scoop will make contact with a 36 grit disk. How to make a custom metal hood scoop from scratch with ron covell 1 start with a shield shaped piece of metal roughly the size you want and outline of the scoop to be.

Pr 3 this is a smaller version of the pr1. Mix the epoxy with a popsicle stick. Here metal shaping teacher lazze demonstrates how to make an m shaped sheet piece that could be used to transition between the curve of a hood or trunk surround to an apron or fender.