Cytronus
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Hood arrival and unboxing - Success!
The 2001 sport hood arrived at the Hayward Greyhound station last Friday. I picked it up Saturday evening. It took up nearly the entire space of the station! Credit goes to SURF RUNNER who did a magnificently brilliant job packing it up. THANK YOU!!! There was zero damage to the hood. If anyone is looking for a model of how to ship a hood correctly, this is it.
What worked? It was obvious the wooden legs screwed into the hinge points that protected the windshield-facing corner points took a bit of beating so those are necessary for shipping any hood IMO. The swimming pool floater tubes covering all the edges worked very well and the the spray foam held the hood in position firmly within the box. It wasn't loose upon unboxing and in fact, I had to cut and break away much of the spray foam to free the hood from the box. The bubble wrap and mattress bag that covered the hood worked really well to protect it from the spray foam and loose styrofoam inside the box. The loose styrofoam packed densely inside prevented the hood from shaking around inside the box during shipping.
I removed the hood insulation pad underneath, removed the scoop and washed both thoroughly. The front edge of the hood has bug gut acidic stains in the clear coat and paint along with some rock ships with small rust spots and a few other small milk spots that seem to have eaten through the clear coat but not the paint. I used a coarse auto polish with Griot's electrical 6" random orbital buffer to attempt to polish out and remove the bug guts and light scratches but to no avail, unfortunately. Still the hood will look great on the car as is.
I'm actually contemplating a full vehicle repaint since I have a number of small dents, dimples and scratches on the car but I'll have to see how much that'll cost first.
I'll have to figure out how to remove the actual screen from the scoop assembly to do a proper restoration. I think I'll have to grind off the 2 rivets that hold it in place. The inside scoop piece will receive a fresh coat of flat black. The screen has a little bend in the left corner that I'll have to straighten out over a block of wood with some very light hammering. The paint on the screen is also worn down to bare metal around the edges of the perforations so a repaint is in order there too. I'll see about doing a photo / video of the restoration process for anyone else who wants clean up their sport hood scoop.
The 2001 sport hood arrived at the Hayward Greyhound station last Friday. I picked it up Saturday evening. It took up nearly the entire space of the station! Credit goes to SURF RUNNER who did a magnificently brilliant job packing it up. THANK YOU!!! There was zero damage to the hood. If anyone is looking for a model of how to ship a hood correctly, this is it.
What worked? It was obvious the wooden legs screwed into the hinge points that protected the windshield-facing corner points took a bit of beating so those are necessary for shipping any hood IMO. The swimming pool floater tubes covering all the edges worked very well and the the spray foam held the hood in position firmly within the box. It wasn't loose upon unboxing and in fact, I had to cut and break away much of the spray foam to free the hood from the box. The bubble wrap and mattress bag that covered the hood worked really well to protect it from the spray foam and loose styrofoam inside the box. The loose styrofoam packed densely inside prevented the hood from shaking around inside the box during shipping.
I removed the hood insulation pad underneath, removed the scoop and washed both thoroughly. The front edge of the hood has bug gut acidic stains in the clear coat and paint along with some rock ships with small rust spots and a few other small milk spots that seem to have eaten through the clear coat but not the paint. I used a coarse auto polish with Griot's electrical 6" random orbital buffer to attempt to polish out and remove the bug guts and light scratches but to no avail, unfortunately. Still the hood will look great on the car as is.
I'm actually contemplating a full vehicle repaint since I have a number of small dents, dimples and scratches on the car but I'll have to see how much that'll cost first.
I'll have to figure out how to remove the actual screen from the scoop assembly to do a proper restoration. I think I'll have to grind off the 2 rivets that hold it in place. The inside scoop piece will receive a fresh coat of flat black. The screen has a little bend in the left corner that I'll have to straighten out over a block of wood with some very light hammering. The paint on the screen is also worn down to bare metal around the edges of the perforations so a repaint is in order there too. I'll see about doing a photo / video of the restoration process for anyone else who wants clean up their sport hood scoop.
