Fiberglass hoods

[Sapperfire]

as we all know, the Gen1 has a fiberglass hood, from searching around the only ones with problems are the 93s that get the coffee mug rings in the paint from the resin bleeding thru or whatever.
I've heard that there's a special primer needed in order to repaint and not have it reoccur, but what if the fiber has cracked in the center..

Is there a way to fix that, and not have it show? Will body filler and blocking work...or should the hood be replaced?

 

[godparag]

tigger hair its fiber glass filler and yes there is primer for fiber glass

 

[godparag]

you got a pic of the crack

 

[1bad4.6l]

The chamelion has those rings as well and is a 95.

 

[Sapperfire]

When it quits rainin I'll run out and snap a shot

I've never done any body work, not sure if i want to pop my cherry on my own car just yet, I had a full body estimate done at Mayco, and the tune of $3200...well that's 2 more Mark 8s...

 

[Sapperfire]

 

[godparag]

body work aint hard just time that hood aint to bad and I would not let maco paint my escort

 

[Sapperfire]

The Waco-mayco is one of the premium centers that offers very high quality paints...that's who painted LaserSVTs car, and it looks awesome...I agree that the name Mayco in general sends shivers due to their old "$100 paint job" and I've seen some of those specials come into my shop...paint runnin off the bumpers and just over-all poor..

But they do offer a premium package that is top notch

I tried wet sanding the sun-fade on the rear bumper..it didn't turn out as I had hoped

 

[DieselDan]

You could use this opportunity to mold a nice cowl scoop on that thing or something... If it were me, i'd just buy a good junkyard hood, fiberglass repairs make me nervous.

 

[Sapperfire]

I've already got a junk hood..lol..I may try some fiberglass work, once I buy all the tools I need I'm sure I could do something...but..there's that BUY word that always makes my butthole pucker

 

[godparag]

Ive been doing paint for years and I also do fiber glass canoos fiberglass is one of the easiest things tigger hair is cheap sand smooth fill sand smooth fog on some black spray paint you will see where it is low but I am super poor and do everything myself except tranys they suck this is the first newer car I have owned I lived in az from age 15 to 21 my first car was 68 cougar loved that car have not liked one as much untill this lincoln

 

[BAD97LSC]

just buy a hood scoop off egay and mold it on like i did to one of my 93's it was like 40 bucks!

 

[SWB001]

That is a pretty simple fix which can have results that will be like new. If you really want to get crazy, you can do something like this. This is the stock hood which has had the entire center section cut out, lifted, material added, and then smoothed.

 

[zmt325]

i want that grille looks fuggin great