Does anyone have a front flip hood on their Z ? (Viper Style)

Someone was talking about fabricating one on their 3rd gen, and I am interested in doing this on my 4th gen.

 

I thought about this. You could use the hinges from a C5, as they have the gas shocks built into them. It would be as simple as fabricating some brackets to mount the hinges to.

 

Are you talking about just flipping up the hood, or the hood and fenders?

If just the hood, is there room for the front of the hood to turn down? It's going to need room to flip down and I'm not sure there's room around the windshield washer reservoir. Make any sense?

 

That would be hella cool.

I'd like to do that on my car

 

If you located the hinge joint far enough forward the hood wouldn't have to dip down into the cars front end.......not sure how you would do that tastefully though on a camaro, I imagine it would be a bit easier on the pontiacs as they have a narrower frontal area for the hood.

Also if it's a glass hood you will want to reinforce it, If my hood is up with the engine running it shakes hard from the cam. I'd hate to see anyone get stress cracks. I would imagine doable with a little bit of work though.

 

Nope, It definately won't be that far forward... will need a dual action hinge that both opens and pops the hood up kinda...

 

I had a link once to a company that was making flip kits that took the hood up and backwards...over the roof of the car. I know that's opposite of what you're looking for, but maybe you could reverse their kit?

Well, I found a pic, but I can't find the link to the company that's making the kit...here's the pic

 

Something like this....?
http://www.tri-cengineering.com/Orde...g/HoodKits.htm

-Shawn

 

Yeah TA, something similar to that ! ! I'm taking a look at the viper ones...

 

I know it's not a front flip but how about it\f it opens like this
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...&category=6766

 

Hey that's not bad... definately another option

 

That would be pretty sweet to have a front opening hood. How would you secure the back side? Hood pins?

 

I would imagine you could put a latch were the stock hinges mounted, it should be suffiecently strong enough to accomplish the task, from the hood side and the body side of the car.