Can I drive with no hood, Approx 60 miles? |
Can I drive with no hood, Approx 60 miles? |
Mar 9, 2007 - 9:59 AM |
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Enthusiast Joined Apr 28, '04 From Houston, Texas Currently Offline Reputation: 2 (100%) |
Ok this some ricer $hit I know but I have no choice. I need to pic up my GT4 hood from Ngofcukingway butit's approx. 60miles away through the city of Houston and I have no truck. Just the Celica. If you've seen my Audio/Video thread you know I have no room in the hatch for anything.
In order to pick up my hood I have but one option - Take off my stock hood and drive to his place and instal the GT4 hood and then drive back in style. Anybody know of any reason why this would not be ok? Minus the obvious freak rainstorm, bird dodo in the wrong place or something flying off another car and landing in my engine bay. -------------------- |
Mar 12, 2007 - 9:25 AM |
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Enthusiast Joined Apr 28, '04 From Houston, Texas Currently Offline Reputation: 2 (100%) |
Hell Yeah! Got and installed the hood. Plus we ended the "can I drive with no hood" question in style - a '06 TRD Tacoma!
Here are some pics [crappy cell-phone pics]: The Taco: And the look I've been waiting for..... So now all that's left is to extend the latch and paint the hood. Think I'm gonna leave the vents black since they are already clearcaoted and look nice. Not sure though - taking opinions. I'm not gonna paint anything untill I get my OEM exstensions from doggy here in the next couple of weeks. BTW - I drove around all weekend and even drove halfway to Austin and back with no issues. When I got there I popped the hood for my GFs Dad [he's into cars too] and I actually had to use the release inside the car and the Hood popped right up? I haven't opened it again yet but IDK why that happened. Everytime before that the release was useless and I could just open the hood from the front using the gap. The catches work just fine - I believe that as long as you make sure you close the hood securely the stock hood latch is fine until you go GT4 bumper - which I won't be doing. For any of you who may share my opinion that the GT4 bumper is just too busy and squares out the lines of the car - the gap caused by the GT4 hood looks totally intentional. It actually makes a useable scoop that vents right over the turbo and out the big main vent. I'm happy with the results. It's exactly the way I wanted it to look. Makes me crave the OEM exstensions though so Doggy - I got money comin your way very soon. Then it's paint time! This post has been edited by Negative: Mar 12, 2007 - 9:35 AM -------------------- |
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