70 hood cutting....

[Indygenerallee]

I worked on my hood today a bit giving it the "Race Daytona" treatment cut the inner structure out and I will also be drilling out all the spot welds and pulling the rest of the remaining structure (where the hood hinges bolt to) off so I can get all the rust off the underside of the hood and fix a section that was rotted out near the hood hinge attachment point. I was amazed with how much dirt and nests were under that structure specifically at the front of the hood! huge pile of dirt!! The hood is definitely lighter now! I can pick it up with one hand (I am going to weight it also for kicks)


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[ACUDANUT]

How much weight did you save and how much faster can you go ?.

[Indygenerallee]

Dunno, since I am building the car like the track version every little bit counts, this car will be caged, no inner fenders (cut down stock shock towers with relocated shocks to cage), A-body hood hinges (like the originals) no heater, track style interior (or lack of, will put a passenger seat in it though) as much as I can change I will probably even put tubes in the wing just like the track version and sell my street brackets. I already have the 5.7 Hemi and I will keep it like that but my plan is in the future to stuff a Hellcat engine in it (like 10 years down the road future!)

[RallyeMike]

Sounds like a fun build. Would love to see some photos of the cage and suspension when it comes together.

[Indygenerallee]

Yeah, figured why not have fun with it. We have a road course that SCCA cars test at here in Putnamville, Indiana (saw the factory Viper SCCA car run there back in late 98 and it was laying the hammer down on several Mallet Corvettes there testing at the same time!) think it would be pretty fun to actually drive a Daytona like they were meant to be driven as a race car that is still streetable!

[Ghoste]

I would love to watch that!

[Indygenerallee]

finally got the inner separated from the hood skin. the front lip was the biggest challenge just has 6 tack welds and then I had to use a small chisel and get it under the lip and slowly tap across the front edge of the hood. I have to make the turn signal block off plates and a couple plugs to fill in the stock hood pin holes (I will be using 3 hood pins on the front edge) hood isnt perfect has some waves im not sure I can get out (tin canning)

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[Mike DC]

A stock 68/69 hood weighs about 65lbs. 

[Davtona]

Amazing the amount of surface rust hidden away in that hood.    Particularly in a body part that is not normally associated with having rust issues. Scary to think that every hidden area could look like that.

[Indygenerallee]

Yes it is! and as far as the work it took to separate the inner structure from the hood skin it was not bad at all I think if you are re using a original hood it would be wise to take the time and take it apart and clean the rust and epoxy the whole hood skin and under the inner skin. I spent about three hours today with a 36 grit disc and wiping out all the rust there was some heavy pits in the hood skin in the front area (where there was multiple mouse nests) and in the back under the hood hinge attachment points. I applied a rust remover on it about 3 p.m. today and it said to let it sit for 6-24 hours under plastic (to keep the liquid from evaporating)
hopefully it can dig out any deeper rust in the pits, I will do another sanding with 120 grit orbital and then apply some self etch primer. The inner structure is going to need some work I think I am going to take it to a buddy and have him sandblast it before I do any metal work on it.

[Indygenerallee]

I pulled the plastic tarp off the hood around noon today so it had been on for 24 hours for the Evaporust solvent to work and all the blue paper towels that had to be soaked were brown! I pulled them all off and man! it is night and day the difference there is still some rust but it took I would say almost 75% off I am pretty impressed with it and will use it again for sure (especially being non toxic) Then I flipped the hood then applied 3 coats of aircraft stripper and got almost all of the 2 coats of paint that was on the hood, then I made the turn signal and hood pin filler plates and welded them in. need to drill the 3 hood pin holes that the race version had.

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