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"cheaper than a third hood" ??
I bought a cowl hood from a fellow SB lover, never been used. Came with those straps to keep the hood from popping. Probably frowned upon/voted against by some, as these hoods are supposed to pancake instead of coming through the windshield. I haven't installed it yet, open to thoughts on viability. $200.00
Go ahead and install the straps - they are cheap insurance against a stranger closing your hood improperly.And if you are concerned about the hood coming through the window, take a moment to measure the width of the window opening versus the width of the hood and you'll realize how improbable that situation is. GM clearly designed the hood to fold, but the decapitation theory doesn't make sense to me. It would mean the GM boys designed a non-decapitation hood for an imaginary event yet saw no hazard with installing side-saddle fuel tanks.A real engineering reason existed for the folding hood, we just don't know what it was.Quote from: JohnnyPopper on September 14, 2021, 07:47:30 PMI bought a cowl hood from a fellow SB lover, never been used. Came with those straps to keep the hood from popping. Probably frowned upon/voted against by some, as these hoods are supposed to pancake instead of coming through the windshield. I haven't installed it yet, open to thoughts on viability. $200.00 The stops at the cowl and the failure point were definitely designed for safety. The saddle tank debacle was a scam "FAKE NEWS". Unfortunately, the folding point in the hood was just lost the arm-wrestling match with the crappy hood hinge design all too often.