Ypi can buy the composite material (liquid) that they make corvette bodies out of. Dunno what its called just know body guys use ot instead of bondo. I dooubt that would crack but prolly not cheap.

 

Bigkid, it's not stick on lol. ^ Agreed, cutting up a stock hood off one of our trucks wouldn't be a big deal. I debated doing that to my own awhile back, making a cowl out of a stock hood (not putting a cowl scoop but building one from scratch using the metal already on the hood). It should be fairly simple to do just time consuming.

Regular Bondo will crack very fast, I'd be using superior products but the problem lies in that this scoop is plastic, not fiberglass, and the differences in the material, in the way they expand and contract with heat, WILL eventually crack. Same with fiberglass though, a good mold job should last a decent time but it WILL eventually crack, it's the nature of the beast, your filling a gap basically with one material, and you have materials on each side of that gap, which are moving at differently, will put stress on whatever material you use and eventually crack. Even if it lasts 5 years (which on a daily driver, that's a long time for a scoop molded to a stock hood to last without any visual issues), you will still have to redo it, and a good mold job isn't just 3-4 hrs, so materials, time, etc, TO ME doesn't make it worth it. If it was a show truck or just a toy I'd probably do it but it's a work truck, I use it for my business and just wanted to make it look a little better.

Here's a shot I took today, IF I made the whole hood out of a different material I think it would look good if the scoop extended a little further forward, similar to the Ultra-Z F-body hood.



I think I'll stop by the local auto recycler and see if they have a spare hood I could mess with to show you my idea for you HD guys. Basically this is my idea:



But instead of having a sharp edge going down the side have a nice rolled edge to the cowl as it comes down for the sides, the Chevy's do have more boxy lines but they still have a nice roundness to the edges

 

I like that HD hood. That's the exact look i was thinking of. The classic cowl scoop.

 

That's what I would do with it, add a little material on the back edge of the scoop to make up for the length lost by bringing the metal up, then cut the hood a little further out than the cutout for the raised metal and roll the side down into the hood

 

gross imo

 

I always liked the suncoast hood except for the heat extractors... someone shaved them back in the day but I can't remember who (EDIT: it was tbyrne)

 

^ ya I love that hood, and I could do without the heat extractors too but at $900 I wasn't looking to spend that on a work truck lol. I guess I could have wrote it off as a business expense lol. I think I'm going to end up making the cowl for it with the spare hood I just got at the shop. The more days I have it on the more iffy I am about the scoop. I don't think it looks gross but not 100% what I want either. I don't like the cowls offered by the aftermarket because of that stupid groove up the center of them. I wish they would have made it smooth but that's me

 

I know I'm bringing up the dead but thought I'd post a pic of the hood after a repaint and new styling.......I think it looks 10 times better now:

 

Wow... That truck has come a long way!!! Looks intense!

 

Thanks bud, this is what she looked like the day I got her: