lowered hood nosepiece design help

[tom21]

I am making a lowered hood, chopped down, widened around the pole, slightly longer rear air intakes( but not long enough to mash my knees into-yeah if its possible I WILL smash into it) and also has the sides shaved to make hood tricks easier.

I'm gonna be running an x-metal lowered bracket and I will be shaping up the nose piece as soon as I go pick it up.

What do I do here? I want something with a little more style than simply flat.

I was thinking to slightly curve up and flat out the top. almost like what is there now. but something is off I think.

maybe just a gentle curve up and then the same curve over. like a lazy s? very smooth and gradual and curvy?

 

[Superjetjim]

That hood looks very 24/7 SR71 inspired to me

 

[AtomicPunk]

That hood looks very 24/7 SR71 inspired to me

^^^^ he's pretty good :dance:


I say eff it... as long it functions, is light and strong, who cares?

 

[SuperJETT]

That hood looks very 24/7 SR71 inspired to me

Most are nowadays, it had some great features so why not incorporate them? There are only so many ways to make a hood...

 

[#ZERO]

SICK !!!














:joke:

Looks real good Tom; let me know have you have one made.

 

[WaveDemon]

I think your hood is to low to have much character in the nose piece. if you an find a way to start low and flatten out around the bracket that would be nice. hurry up with that hood mold BTW. my cut down stocker is fugly and 800lbs.

 

[#ZERO]

Make the nose look more like this one :biggrin:

 

[JetManiac]

nice work tom

 

[tom21]

funny #0. very funny.

ok now that all the critics and comedians have weighed in I have one reply. thanks WD.

maybe somewhere between flat and raised up? ah well, I will just start shaping it and see where it leads. had the hood all but finished yesterday and I doublechecked with a level and one side was 1/4 inch higher. that was a pita to get back into shape.

I know its a small piece of real estate but it is also the first thing you see and basically starts the hood. so I wanted to make it blend into the hood and pole. If anyone else has some input they want to share, do it quick its probably gonna get shaped up today.

 

[cambo au]

looks good can we see the air intakes?

 

[DR3]

nice pole

 

[kawasakit2me]

Here's .... an idea.

Looks like you have the line already drawn out.

Not sure if you can tell anything by my 5 minute sketch. The black is the division of the two "bubbles" and the red is the shape.

:dunno:

 

[WaveDemon]

Here's .... an idea.

Looks like you have the line already drawn out.

Not sure if you can tell anything by my 5 minute sketch. The black is the division of the two "bubbles" and the red is the shape.

:dunno:

that's cool, its a little like his conversion nose piece.

 

[#ZERO]

Kinda looks like the edge of a toilet bowl seat with what you just drew.




I'm with Tim, keep it consistent with your conversion hood noise piece.

 

[tom21]

sorry guys I already shaped it and decided to make it flow from the hood. I tried to make a few diff shapes and levels and in the end it looked like stuff already out there. so I just decided to smooth it and shape it inwards. its hard to do something new and not over do it in that small a space with the lines it has.

lift the molds soon and then tackle the liner.

the breathers are even with the flat part of the tray.

 

[GIL]

There is only soooo much u can do with a nose peice and u sir, did one hell of a job!!! I am impressed. BTW, hood looks great too!!!