shaker hood from flat

[moparnut]

I know this has been discussed many times,is there a website or specs for turning a flat hood into a shaker?These guys want a flat core so they must be making them from a flat hood and makin a killin doing it

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Shaker-Hood-Cuda-Challenger-E-Body_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ10076QQitemZ4599612009QQrdZ1

[Chryco Psycho]

to do it right you need to have a correct 70-71 hood with the triangle star on the front of the center ridge

[xblade]

What car you want to put the shaker on?
Chryco is right about the correctness, but if your building a street car or drag car I'd use what I had.
I'm in process of converting a hood for my 72 challenger. I'll use a 72-74 flat hood because it was a great price and the painted hood trim was in excellent condition. About the diminsions I cant help you, I tried to get em here with no luck.

[moparnut]

What car you want to put the shaker on?

Not sure just throwing around ideas,maybe use the flat hood on my GC but probably dont want to spend the money doing it,plus I'd like to keep the original hood,I have a cuda hood going on it

[71chmark]

Checkout www.harmsauto.com.  I expect you could make a shaker hood for around $1500. Rough estimate.

[Chryco Psycho]

I should clarify thet the hood I was reffering to is the Challenger hood , I`m not sure if the Cuda flat hood was unique in 70 -71 compared to later 72-74 hoods

[JS27N0B]

www.shakerhood.com builds the kits to do it yourself.

[Green Drop Top]

Thank you for the referals guys 

*BTW, I should add that if you are doing a Challenger conversion there is only one company selling the Challenger conversion kit with the specific Challenger style under brace piece and that is us (www.harmsauto.com) anything else on the market is a generic Cuda style.


Concerning correctness on a factory appearing Challenger hood, yes, as some above have mentioned above the early style hoods with the Dodge tri-star emblems on the nose are what almost all 70-71 Challenger Shakers hoods originally had. However.....There were a very few 71 cars built using the later flat front style Shaker hoods, these hoods hit the production line near the end of 1971 model year production run and were sold for many years as over the counter replacements as well. So, technically, for a 71 clone car anyway, either style hood would be acceptable and either one looks nice once done.

 

[EVIL72]

I'm in process of converting a hood for my 72 challenger.

  I don't think i've ever seen anyone put a shaker hood on a 72-74 Challenger, anyone got any pics?

[Wang]

I cant believe that I threw away flat hoods for both (many years back) DOH....

[360 'CUDA]

I cant believe that I threw away flat hoods for both (many years back) DOH....

I just kept stacking them in the corner,,,  I have 6 

4 of them for 1970

[360 'CUDA]

I should clarify thet the hood I was reffering to is the Challenger hood , I`m not sure if the Cuda flat hood was unique in 70 -71 compared to later 72-74 hoods

As far as I can tell there are 3 different flat hoods from 1970 to 1974 on Barracudas
1- No holes for Plymouth emblem and no crumple zones -early 1970
2- No holes for Plymouth emblem with crumple zones ---later  1970
3- Holes for Plymouth emblem with crumple zones  all 1971 to 1974

Keep in mind those emblem holes are stamped into the metal top and bottom and would be really hard to reproduce on a '70 hood

[Green Drop Top]

1- No holes for Plymouth emblem and no crumple zones -early 1970
2- No holes for Plymouth emblem with crumple zones ---later  1970
3- Holes for Plymouth emblem with crumple zones  all 1971 to 1974

I basically agree with you on this, I would'nt really call the late 70 hood without emblem holes a sepperate style though, it's the exact same hood as the later style hood with crumple zones, they just  started adding the emblem access and pin location holes shortly after production started, otherwise every other detail of the under hood and upper hood skin structures are exactly the same as far as the style with crumple zones goes. 

[360 'CUDA]

I basically agree with you on this, I would'nt really call the late 70 hood without emblem holes a sepperate style though, it's the exact same hood as the later style hood with crumple zones, they just  started adding the emblem access and pin location holes shortly after production started, otherwise every other detail of the under hood and upper hood skin structures are exactly the same as far as the style with crumple zones goes. 

It's not like they just drilled three holes to add the emblems though. I think if you were restoring a real 1971 Barracuda but had just a '70 hood it would be really hard to make the access look right without damaging the metal above.
Wouldn't it?

I just thought I would give the exact details on every possibility

[Green Drop Top]

I just thought I would give the exact details on every possibility

I agree, no problem with that at all! 

*Yes, cutting the pin access holes in the under structure is a challenge but I've done it and it came out fine, it's really just a matter of "measuring twice and cutting once" (with the right tools)