Tony's 40 ford

Like the quarter panels, the hood has to be modified to work with the fenders that are in the stock relationship to the frame and the cowl that is two and half inches lower than it was originally. We will section it roughly two and a half inches. the final dimension will be determined by eyeball engineering or how it looks best.

we started out by bracing the inside of the hood.

The bracing allows the bottom "half" to maintain it's shape when we cut it in two.

We test fit the top half to the car to see if anything else needs to be trimmed.

Same with the bottom half.

Now we set the top half inside the bottom half.

This shows how much mis-alignment we are going to have to deal with in re-connecting the two pieces.