extreme comp hood people where r u?
02-02-2012, 02:15 PM
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extreme comp hood people where r u? Thinking of picking one of these up with the vents...Heard they require a good bit of pre prep work before the instal. Any info appreciated...btw what was the shipping
02-02-2012, 04:42 PM
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Quite a bit of prep due to the louvers...... You get it with holes in the hood & the louvers in box.
Been way to long to remember how much the shipping was.
02-03-2012, 02:26 PM
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shipping for mine was 147 to a business address.....I'm in Springfield Mo. Also keep in mind, they make it on request, so its about a 2 week waiting period for it to be made.
The shop that did mine, had to do A LOT of prep work, to make it look good, cost be about $400 just in labor of cleaning it up, installing the vents and paint
edit...now that i remember, there was a front piece of the hood that was damaged in shipping...under where that chrome piece goes, it was $200, to get that fixed, but they paid for that...so technically I paid $200 for labor/paint on it
The shop that did mine, had to do A LOT of prep work, to make it look good, cost be about $400 just in labor of cleaning it up, installing the vents and paint
edit...now that i remember, there was a front piece of the hood that was damaged in shipping...under where that chrome piece goes, it was $200, to get that fixed, but they paid for that...so technically I paid $200 for labor/paint on it
02-03-2012, 06:50 PM
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I asked EC a lot of questions about the vents. They come 'ready to be installed', but isn't a big deal "per EC". It just comes down to if you want them blended (no seam around edge of vent) or not (vent seam visible, looks like it was "added"). To blend just requires some bondo (again) "per EC". Dunno if they were trying to minimize the effort to get me to buy it.
02-04-2012, 05:58 AM
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I asked EC a lot of questions about the vents. They come 'ready to be installed', but isn't a big deal "per EC". It just comes down to if you want them blended (no seam around edge of vent) or not (vent seam visible, looks like it was "added"). To blend just requires some bondo (again) "per EC". Dunno if they were trying to minimize the effort to get me to buy it.
02-04-2012, 06:10 AM
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Here is what the hood looked like upon arrival...
had to clean this up a lot to even get the vent to be able to sit there properly
this was the piece that was damaged in shipping...they ended up fixing the whole front end of the hood, cause on one side it was this as could be, and shutting the hood once would have caused it to break
my shop was able to clean it up, but they wouldn't do it again, it had a lot of those little pin holes that you can see in fiberglass, that they needed to clean up as well, but they did.....here are the pics of it finished...its still has some swirls in the paint because you have to let the paint cure for 90 days, and these pics were before that point, after the 90 days, i brought the car back, and they cleaned it up
As it goes, I love the hood, and am glad that I did get it, to me it just adds a major tone of aggressiveness to the car and I get a lot of compliments about the hood as well
had to clean this up a lot to even get the vent to be able to sit there properly
this was the piece that was damaged in shipping...they ended up fixing the whole front end of the hood, cause on one side it was this as could be, and shutting the hood once would have caused it to break
my shop was able to clean it up, but they wouldn't do it again, it had a lot of those little pin holes that you can see in fiberglass, that they needed to clean up as well, but they did.....here are the pics of it finished...its still has some swirls in the paint because you have to let the paint cure for 90 days, and these pics were before that point, after the 90 days, i brought the car back, and they cleaned it up
As it goes, I love the hood, and am glad that I did get it, to me it just adds a major tone of aggressiveness to the car and I get a lot of compliments about the hood as well
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02-04-2012, 11:14 AM
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Makes me glad I didn't get the EC hood. My shop didn't say a peep about the Spectre hood. YOu get squirter holes with the SW hood, not so with the EC hood. I use my squirters.
Although, it looks like the fitment around grill looks better than mine:
Although, it looks like the fitment around grill looks better than mine:
02-04-2012, 12:54 PM
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thanks for the pics itsav puts things in perspective. Still think Im gonna go with one of these cause they look great after its all finished. Now to place the order and bite my lip.
02-06-2012, 10:41 AM
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Ya think? I even said so myself & the reason I took the pics. It's a lil better, but still no perfect. I think my grill/front bumper is a lil skewed too. I've had the bumper off twice & nothing looks crinkled under there like it was in a wreck or anything.
