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Just got a 70 cowl induction hood with flapper. Has a little rust on the underside and the skin as become unattatched (needs work)

I am considering
1. cutting Cowl induction / air cleaner pocket off - and grafting to my 69 hood,. I know I would have to cut the ridge off of my 69 hood, but it would look COOL to have a 69 convertible with functioning Cowl induction!
Or
2. Fixing rust, rewelding skin to underhood, priming and selling,
Or,
3. Just selling.

Any ideas/opinions? Anyone ever grafted a Factory cowl induction set-up onto a hood without C/I?

Joe

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Joe Beyer
1969 Malibu Convertible (kinda)
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[This message has been edited by jrb56 (edited 03-12-2002).]

OOOH, it could probably be done. What's your time worth? Cause it'll take a he11 of a long time to get it right. Not to mention the time to get the old skin off the 70 without butchering it up. You'd be better off selling the old and finance that for your new cowl hood for the 69. Way too much time involved to do what your thinking.

I'm with RandyB. It would take quite a bit of work. Getting another hood and selling the other would be the way to go.
Just my 2 cents.

I would be interested trading you out for that Hood.
Does Southwest fly anywhere you're interested in going http://www.chevelles.com/forum/wink.gif http://www.chevelles.com/forum/wink.gif

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Philip Mullaly
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Joe,

I think you are on to something. It really would be a unique custom hood.

I assume the guys who say the work level is super high are right but it might be worth it.

Now I have a question. The only cowl hoods I have seen are fiberglass but I have not seen one that actually has a working induction system for a 69. I WANT ONE... is there something out there?

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Texas_Tom 69 Coupe in progress, in progress, in progress ....

Phil.. tempting, but I have a new 8 month old son, and a year timeline for car completion... so $ for car parts is more important than leisure/travel....

Tom,
dunno, my thought was to get another 69 hood in decent shape. cut a support that conforms to the shape of the top of the hood - screw the hood skin to this support. Then cut out the old inner hood support and match it up as well as possible.

Then flip the hood - redoing the plywood supports for the bottom - rescrew the skin to the new supports - cut the induction off. match the center of the cowl to the center of the 69 hood. Use cut out as template to cut 69 hood. butt weld the CI onto the 69 hood.

Go back to the panel cut out of the 69 hood and cut off the 'v" shaped ridge - then graft that back onto the C/I portion.

Wow, sounds hard now that I have it written down.

Am I nuts, or just crazy??

Tom, you are free to check this hood out to see if you have any better ideas (or maybe 2 front fenders...) http://www.chevelles.com/forum/wink.gif


Joe

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Joe Beyer
1969 Malibu Convertible (kinda)
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Home Page (http://JRBeyer.tripod.com/index.html)

do it. thats nothin. look at the project i took on chopping one of my chevelles. after cutting the roof in pieces, adding steel, smoothing it out and painting it a covered it in fiberglass to make a mold of it. then cast fiberglass inside of that mold to make an exact duplicate. now i just need to work out the attatching interfaces. it will be a fiberglass removable hardtop chopped convertable when i am done. http://members.aol.com/smartasreality/page2.html


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[This message has been edited by FO_FDYFO (edited 03-15-2002).]

Wow! You should pop a few extras out and convert them for use on convertibles! Kinda a Carson top for Chevelles!

Joe

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Joe Beyer
1969 Malibu Convertible (kinda)
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Home Page (http://JRBeyer.tripod.com/index.html)

yeah, i'm going to get back on it when i am finished with my current wagon project. this roof would be all together different on a convertable unless you chopped the windshield. because to keep the same pitch on the windows the roof got a lot larger.

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