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Old May 22, 2007 | 05:29 AM
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Default SS vs Sunoco....
well im a lil bored with the car, looks like any other imo and want it to stand out a lil. so im thinkin of goin a different route on the hood. what do u guys think. Keep the SS hood or get a sunoco... pics of car below...





Old May 22, 2007 | 06:47 AM
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i think you should get a mecham hood or vfn stingray,i'm looking to go one of those directions within the next couple of months
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Keep the SS hood. If you had a Z28 with the std hood, I would say go with the Sunoco, but your car looks great the way it is.
Old May 22, 2007 | 09:00 AM
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save some money and keep your oem, car looks awesome
Old May 22, 2007 | 09:26 AM
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definately keep the OEM, but if you bored with apearance, i say get a SS grille color matched to your car, and then do the bergermod
Old May 22, 2007 | 09:29 AM
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get new wheels instead
like some Fiske FM5's
Old May 22, 2007 | 09:42 AM
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yeah, keep the SS hood! thats what im looking at. im not too big on that sunoco hood, though there are some sick cars on here with it.

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I would say keep the stock hood but remove the black decal in front of the scoop and then paint the whole scoop black. I think they call it the manta
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Keep the SS hood being its a real SS.

Get a diff grille, and stripe it up differently and you'll be set.
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I'd do the manta stripe / take the other decal off and get a new set of wheels and possibly put a power antenna on. Did you berger the rear of the car? Then it would be a new car again. Looks good!
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i think that the ss hood looked good on mine but wanted to be a lil diff so i got the sunoco hood. havent really seen anyone with it in sj at least not yet.but the ss hood looks beter on your car
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If a factory SS, I would keep the hood. On a Z28 I would do a Sunoco.
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Stick with the beautiful stock ss and maybe paint some racing stripes, or manta stripe, go with a different paint scheme....check out how i did my racing stripes, I even got them painted through the stock grille, and they look amazing, I never get bored of the look. Also, maybe consider removing the stripes on the driver's fender
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Chris, your car looks good as it is!! Get some LT's and a catted-y you metro boy lol.....
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keep the factory hood... if u want to change it up a bit id definitely say new wheels are in order...
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Keep the stocker since it's a real SS (I'm assuming since you have SS emblems )
Take the blackout off the front of the scoop, paint the scoop, get some different wheels, and get the SLP SS black grille.
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dude, nufnuff's grill kicks ***, keep the SS hood
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Deffentially keep the hood, if anything get a grill and maybe switch out the wheels
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chris keep the SS hood . . . and get some more mods or something so you can beat my numbers hahahaha
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I love my hood but , If my car would of been an SS I would keep the SS. Put the manta on it !!!!!!!



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