Over the past several months I have been developing a set of hood hinges that utilize the same bracketry from the original hood hinges but are dressed up for the new century. Here is a progress image of the hinge so far.
It is not done yet, and the main frame of the hinge still needs to be powder coated.
All of the joints have replaceable bronze bushings in them so he aluminum does not get eaten away.
This has been a fun project but not too hard if you would like to attempt it. Aluminum is soft and easy to work with. it takes some doing to get it to a shine like this but a mat finish doesn't look bad either.
I re worked the stops on the hinge and some of the geometry so that it will open about 8 inches further than stock.
Really what it came down to is cost, I could not afford to buy these even if I wanted to but I liked the way it dresses up the engine bay. I'm having some issues with the gas strut being strong enough to hold the hood up so I might have to change some things to accomodate a stronger strut.
Here it is next to the OEM version. You can see how much further it will open.
