form94

Want to get a firehawk hood. Looked at many websites and found i liked the slp and sun coast ones the best. What is the difference between them and what do you guys recomend? Want the best fitting. don't want to pay a body shop to make it look right.

formula-bird

IIRC, the Firehawk hood is NLA. What i seen on SLP site and Sun Coast is the WS6 hood. I had the WS6 hood from sun coast on my 96 Formula. It looked great and was well constructed (fiberglass). But it fit on the car like crap. It had major body line gaps and i had to oblong the holes in the hinges pretty good to get the hood to even look half decent on the car. So if i was to do it over again. I'd spend the extra money and get the one off of SLP.

Heres the Firehawk hood close up. Its alittle different then the WS6.

form94

Yeah ok i remember now. I like the ws6 hood better. I found a place called liberty fiberglass that sells one too. Going to check them out also.

green96ta

just spend the money for the slp. i PROMISE that the other hoods will just dissapoint you.

Counted Out

Aren't they that eBay company that sells them for like $300 shipped? If so, I'd be careful.

form94

ordered one from liberty fiberglass and the guy thats going to paint it said it looks great. Im 500 miles away so i can't speak for myself but i trust what he says. Little bit of sanding on the under sides but woth the money savings. When i get pics i will post them.

n2omike

Yea I would like to see this when you get it on.... I also looked at them on Ebay.

form94

Should be painting car next weekend.

1995blackttopta

or do what i did and find a real GM hood used. i snagged my protype hood that had never been painted for $307.51 off ebay back in jan 08. it was a prototype because they made 25 first run hoods and they all had a small hole in them so they gave them to an employee and he gave/sold them to a friend who sold them on ebay for 10 years. i got the second to last one. the body shop fixed the hole, you can kind of still see where it was if you look for it but i don't really mind since the hood is kind of a special rare item since it was a factory reject prototype that only 25 were made. at the T/A nats in 08 someone who worked at that factory confirmed that mine was one of those hoods.