blowsion square hood???

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wydopen

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so my reinforced/ modded square hood is on its way out..shes starting to crack from the occasional underroatated br...thrown away stab or failed bf attempts...so my question is has anyone really torture tested the blowsion square hood in the surf?..any other hoods to consider??..id like to have two as i can fix up my old one and not have any down time

thanks
 
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SN760

For Those About To Rock
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Hoods

I have a blowsion square nose hood that I bought new. I have had it for over a year now and it has taken some very hard hits with no damage.

Just my 2 cents worth.
 
thegoldenboy

thegoldenboy

RN Surgery... soon
Location
Toronto
Although I like Blowsion I can't justify $685? for a square hood.

I will be making my own out of glass once I finish my build. Stay tuned.
 
thegoldenboy

thegoldenboy

RN Surgery... soon
Location
Toronto
oxnard111 said:
i'll look forward to that
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Currently modding the stock hood like GDFL did to his (although a completely different, more stock looking design, nothing like his octagon, that hood is CA-RA-ZY!).
This will be shaped to create a plug for the mold. I'll use that plug to lay up a hood out of glass.

It will have to work with my setup so the height of the hood will be different and may not look the best with a stock pole setup, or big clunky AC Squarenose pole (arn't those terrible looking?)

I'm running an OEM Squarenose bracket, with a shortened OEM Roundnose pole. My nosepiece is no more, and a 1 piece nose is being glassed into place. It provides the look of a lower profile and is rounded in shape (like a roundnose front end, but slimmer profile).

The hood will be lower by at least 2-3". I need to test fit it with motor in for clearance. I believe that I have plenty judging by how it looks now. I wanted to really chop further down and run an X Metal pole, but I don't have any coin for the setup so I'll have to do it with the stock roundnose pole for now.

It will not be vaccum bagged neither prepeg. Its a homemade hood and just that.
It will be wet laid, rolled out, and done as best as humanly possible by hand only. Will require some fairirng compound when complete I'm sure, but all in all is still a hell of a lot cheaper than a Blowsion hood, and hopefully almost as good.

I've reinforced my squarenose and think I did a good job incomparison to other reinforcing jobs I've looked at on here. My roomate used to repair boats at a marina here so his glassing experience is pretty good. He'll help me out with ideas and layup if I can't figure out the best way.

If anything my only problem right now is using too much resin. Rookie mistakes, but I'm getting better and better each day.

I have some pics but there really isn't much to see right now other than a chopped up OEM hood. Need to shape it, than the pics will be worth looking at.
 
thegoldenboy

thegoldenboy

RN Surgery... soon
Location
Toronto
The nose is only glassed up to the pole bracket. Old fuel filler is gone, cavities in the nose of a squarenose (once nospiece is removed) have been filled with foam. Similar to GDFL again (BTW again his build..:hail: ) but shape is different and slimmer.

Pole bracket will still come on and off. There will be deadspace inbetween the bracket and nose. There won't be a seperate nosepiece like on the RN. I can't figure out anything that can go in there. Gave up.

The nose also needs to be notched on the inside to allow extension (granted the pole bracket is only grinded enough to have not even 90 degrees, I'm going to weld on a metal stop too that will hit the "nospiece of the pole" to prevent my cables being cut off when I bail and the pole over extends towards the front of the machine)

Don't get too excited guys. I'm merely and amateur trying to figure out a better hood for the money than OEM and it must be less than 1/2 the cost to make, than aftermarket (reason I'm using glass and not carbon).

Plus, I'll probabaly mess it up a lot so glass is better to learn on.
 
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