I noticed tiny chips on the hood. I looked, but I cant find any write up. Is there any way of fixing those chips or a way of protecting the hood without switching back to your old hood?

 

Chips on what, the clear coat or the hood itself?

 

Hood itself and Is there any hood dampers for CRX's? Cant find any on google

 

If the weave itself is damaged I am not sure how to fix it, other the replacing it.

Hood dampers, you can do custom I'm sure you can find a write up or fab up your own. Kind of a pain in the butt and worthless with a hood that light.

 

The hood I got does have the holes to put the hood stand thingy. so when I open my hood I have to hold it with my head lol

 

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What kind of hood did you buy with no way to prop it up ?

=/

 

I dont know lol. The guy I got it from told me he doesnt even know the brand, he just said he got it from a bodykit store or something. He probably stole it lol

 

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buying stolen parts is NOT cool.

if it's that a junky hood then go back to stock untill you have money for a real LEGAL one.

 

I dont know if its stolen, its probably not, but not 100% sure , but its not junky, just no hood prop and a tiny chip in the front

 

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If your hood doesn't even have a way to stay open yea its junky.

 

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if it's that a junky hood then go back to stock untill you have money for a real LEGAL one. </TD></TR></TABLE>

Wow what a profound statement. Really? I thought buying stolen things was good?

Just super glue some sort of plastic donut to the bottom of your hood so the hood stand can rest against something... it doesn't need to be anything too fancy b/c there obvoisly won't be much weight on it.

 

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Wow what a profound statement. Really? I thought buying stolen things was good?
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Funny

 

They do make hood props, for EF's actually. Ebay it. There's a guy on here with them and they look real nice...

 

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I had the same situation with my CF hood. It's some used chincy no-name.
There was an indentation were the stock hood prop hole was supposed to be.
I just CAREFULLY used my drill and opened up my own hole and now I use my stock prop rod.

If your hood is chincy, I might suggest <u>against</u> hood props. They're designed to support heavy OEM hoods, so when you go to close it, they will provide exessive resistance to your lightweight (and brittle) CF hood. You'd probably develop cracks in no time.

 

Wow chincy hoods ring! Lol, I wanted to post yesterday, but I was limited. Well there is a way to save your hood, but its gonna cost you 25 bucks and sweat.
How you may ask? Well go ove to your crafts and hobby store and ask to buy resin for fiberglass. Its about 25 bucks and it comes in a crystal blue clear gel with hardner. You mix the amount needed to cover chip area. If the chip area is light (it looks like small gavel pits) then you will need a light coat. If the area is very grooved then you might need heavy coat and sanding after. When you add the right coats make sure you add a coat all over the hood to even it out. (You don't want hood looking all lop sided) Now the fun part, the hood will cure, leaving a waxy film over it let it cure for a day and half. After that start wet sanding it, to get rid of all that waxy build. Then polish with buffer. (Note: make sure you don't get tiny bubbles in the resin mix, its a bitch on the sanding). Also if your hood is turning yellow, b/c of a cheap brand of CF hood, you can add color pigmentation to resin. Change or keep same color, just ask for it.
Hope this helps

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by crx226 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Wow chincy hoods ring! Lol, I wanted to post yesterday, but I was limited. Well there is a way to save your hood, but its gonna cost you 25 bucks and sweat.
How you may ask? Well go ove to your crafts and hobby store and ask to buy resin for fiberglass. Its about 25 bucks and it comes in a crystal blue clear gel with hardner. You mix the amount needed to cover chip area. If the chip area is light (it looks like small gavel pits) then you will need a light coat. If the area is very grooved then you might need heavy coat and sanding after. When you add the right coats make sure you add a coat all over the hood to even it out. (You don't want hood looking all lop sided) Now the fun part, the hood will cure, leaving a waxy film over it let it cure for a day and half. After that start wet sanding it, to get rid of all that waxy build. Then polish with buffer. (Note: make sure you don't get tiny bubbles in the resin mix, its a bitch on the sanding). Also if your hood is turning yellow, b/c of a cheap brand of CF hood, you can add color pigmentation to resin. Change or keep same color, just ask for it.
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I would not do this if you have never messed with fiberglass/resin. If your hood has been clear coated then just putting resin over it is not the way to go. Your best bet would be to try and fix just the spot where the damage is. But you can do what you want I just didnt want you to read this and go off pouring resin all down your hood.

 

Supra you have a good point, but this is only for the use to renew your hood incase it got old and yellow. for his case just add the resin onto the part were it is chipping and add a thick coat. If you add super glue, in do time it will crack again. Resin wont. I have rescude friends hoods and never had a problem with resin. Also took CF hood from ricers that dont give a rat's *** about them either. And revived them. sold them to otheres for a perrty penny.
Thays my hustle!