Sport hood conversion ?'s answered

Slowrunner

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I've been interested in the sport hood for a couple years now, and have seen the same deals online as you guys have, cheap hood with expensive shipping, expensive hood with free shipping etc. then everyone has wildly varying guesses on how much it would cost to get it painted, and nobody quite knows what pieces, to buy seperately to fill the hole etc. After seeing all of these posts and never getting a very good answer for whether or not to do it, I decided to take a chance and share everything I learned.

Hood: D & H auto parts $179.00 shipped
-they painted it for $200.00 so $379.00 total

Scoop parts: http://www.parts.westborotoyota.com
-scoop (prepainted) $92.14 PN 7619235020
-scoop guide $13.43 PN 7618235060
-scoop plate $14.43 PN 7618135050D1
-3 rivets $1.50 PN 9026904054
Hardware store
-5 nuts and washers to thread on the scoop. already forgot the size and pitch. just take it into the store and get them.

For the hood I found it on ebay but wound up calling to limit errors. look them up on ebay and they have an 800#. give them your paint code and general name of color (ex. red). came in 9 days from order. pakaging was great and gave confidence that it came from a reputable shop.

Scoop parts are not available aftermarket as far as I could tell so I called the local stealerships for the scoop parts and not only were they pretty rude and unknowledgable, but said the parts would be about $180.00. looked up toyota oem parts online and found many dealerships with better prices.

Everything was pretty simple to install the only thing I didn't switch over was the insulation part. They appear to be different and taking off the old onw would destroy most of the plastic fasteners, so I'll figure that part out later, maybe even just order a new one.

Summery, the hood and parts came quick with no damage to them. went together quickly and actually bolted up and fit really well on the first try, some fine tuning is in order when I have a little more time. My 4runner is 5 years old and I have to park outside to keep the wife happy, and the new paint matches very well. For roughly $500 I am very happy with the final result, and we will see in the months to come how the paint holds up. (they use factory oem paint supposedly).
 
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Here are some pics. hardware and hood scoop parts in the first picture
 

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That looks very neat!.... I saw one primed for $130 if I am not mistaken ready to paint and install ... I can't remember the site tho'...

very tempting..
 
That look so goood, planning to get one myself. So is the total cost $379 or plus the parts?
Thanks, it wound up being just over $500 for everything

Nice! Was it hard to route the windshild fluid tubes through the hood?
No. the sprayers are just clipped in, so they pop out of the top, then undo the hose from them. the hose is secured to the hood with 1 plastic clip then gently pull it out. putting it in the new one is easy because it doesn't have the insulation
 
glad u had luck with d&h,i tried that, & finally gave up after receiving a dented hood 3 times! ! ! the packaging was very poor, & the hood looked like someone sat down on the scoop. i suggested a better form of crating be used, maybe they listened? the scoop filler piece was easy to get thu conicelli toyota parts tho.
 
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Looks very good Bro! I want to do this so badly. I just want to make sure it all comes out good without too much hassle.
 
well after just looking at those pics and fairly resonable pricing... i just added another item to my long long long list of mods. It looks great!!
 
anyone with a shadow mica 4 r want a sport hood? im willing to swap... mine is in perfect condition.
 
why did you buy a new hood? why didn't you just put the scoop on the hood you already had..? maybe I'm missing something, but it seems like you coulda saved that $379..
 
The scoop isn't like a sticker or a magnet you see at autozone. The hood itself has a buldge and a hole. The scoop pieces then screw into that. You specifically have to buy a sport hood.
 
I meant to ask- did you add your stock hood liner back on the bottom ?

do "Sport" hoods have a different under hood liner ?

got a pic with the hood up ?
 

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