The ASCD
"SS" hood has become very popular within the past
couple of years. Mine was bought in December 2001 from a
member of www.thirdgen.org who was unfortunate to total
his beautiful IROC.
I drove up to South Bend, IN where Derek (90Z28SS) had already
had the hood painted to a perfect match. We swapped the
hood and just threw the old one in a dumpster as someone
had previously scraped it up while the car was parked at
my university. A special thanks to Derek for a great
deal and all the help!!
The hood is a good fit and very good quality.
It is a bolt on hood where the factory hardware bolts right
on for an easy installation. The only thing that isn't a
true swap is the under-hood light. For it to work - you
have to add a ground wire since you obviously won't be able
to ground it in the hood like the stock one.
One other thing to be aware of, is the
hood struts. If your stock ones are new or in very good
shape - they might be too strong for the fiberglass hood.
What can happen is that the hood cracks around the hinges.
This is nothing to be think about for only this hood, but
all bolt on fiberglass hoods.
There are several ways to work around this. One is to buy
a set of weaker hood struts. I have also read that you can
use the hood struts that were used on the early thirdgens
that came with stock fiberglass hoods. I can not recall
if these were 1982 Z28's only, or if they were also available
on 1983 Z's.
Another route is to do like me and hunt down a set of "worn"
stock hood struts. I was able to do an even exchange with
someone online who had a stock hood with struts that weren't
capable of holding it up. These were perfect for my hood.
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Some
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