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01-01-2011, 10:29 PM
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Thanks Ms. Grumpy! I'm hoping it will be of use for others to get ideas from.
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1964 Malibu SS, now a LS1 and T56, Back halfed, rollbar, narrowed 9 inch, 4.11 gears and 31x16x15 Mickey SSR's on Weld wheels. 
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01-09-2011, 01:26 PM
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The hardest part is going to be joining the nose of the cowl with the nose of the hood. The cowl center line has a narrow edge and the hood had a very wide edge.
 I formed a piece of balsa wood to fill the gap between the too edges and fade the wide edge into the narrow one.  I glassed the wood down to the hood and then used a thin cloth and shaped the the cowl nose to the hood. It may take more layers, but this is how it looks now. 
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01-10-2011, 08:57 AM
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Got a little bit sanded down. I need a couple more coats, but it's turning out great.
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01-25-2011, 07:33 PM
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UPDATE:
The nose of the car has really been stubborn. I've been applying layers of resin and sanding it down for a week now. I'm getting very close to a shape that I like now. I sprayed the nose with primer to show off the imperfections and can tell I will still need to do a bit more work, but it's getting there. 
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01-25-2011, 09:09 PM
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Nice poroject, it's going to look good when you get it done.
Ray
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01-28-2011, 12:49 PM
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Good choice on leaving the supports intact. If you cut them out the hood goes to crap real quick. Someone gave me the same style cowl hood for my chevelle. I thought it looked cool but when i put it on the car it was sagging in the center and it had a wobble at about 70 mph. It ended up with cracks in the paint that looked bad if you got up close. I did attempt to rebuild it and added aluminum plate as a reinforcement and bonded it in. It worked pretty good but it added a signifigant amount of weight and I just didn't like the outcome so I sold it and put my SS hood back on.
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02-04-2011, 03:59 PM
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More progress today!
 One more go around with some 800 and 1000 grit and it should be good to go.  
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02-05-2011, 07:35 PM
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Well it was good for 10 minutes.
 I bolted the hood onto the car and couldn't find my front pins so I cut a couple pieces of coat hanger and was going to stop at autozone and pick up some hood pins on my way to a little car show. I made it about 1/4 mile and the $%#%# coat hangers bent and my hood flew open. It ripped up the hinge locations pretty good so I guess it's back to the drawing board. I feel so damn stupid. I hate it when I have a duh moment. I'm totally disgusted with myself for thinking a coat hanger could hold that pressure even though it was for only a mile down the street. I'll be glassing this thing again. Crossing fingers that it turns out. I was impressed that the cowl that I glassed into place is very solid and not damaged.
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1964 Malibu SS, now a LS1 and T56, Back halfed, rollbar, narrowed 9 inch, 4.11 gears and 31x16x15 Mickey SSR's on Weld wheels.
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