what do you think of these?

[weston]

OK so i got this used diablo hood and the area around the hood hooks was all broke (the small pieces of aluminum are the "stock" backing/nut plates)
this is my fix for the problem , i cut out the damaged area then layed up a piece of bios glass to fix the cracked/cut out area.
as for the backing plate i made these larger 3/16 aluminum plates do you think this is an overkill my feeling is the more surface area to displace the force of pancakes and under rotated barrel rolls the better. I have been told "shave" weight were ever possible these don't weight much however just a reference i drew a line on one plate where i think i could cut the plate down just to save a little weight but i don't want to cut the hood liner up in and potentially have to paint the out side of the hood again due to the hood cracking in this area, So let me know what you think about these plates and there application.

EDITbviously these plates will be inside the hood as a backing plate the picture of the plates on the exterior of the hood is just for reference to the location.

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[weston]

so.....?

 

[Cliff]

if it works, run with it

 

[weston]

if it works, run with it

ya i was hoping someone had done something similar to this
i don't want to mess with this again

 

[Cliff]

i dont blame you. when i have fiberglass troubles, i let my buddy wildbill69 figure something out

 

[weston]

i dont blame you. when i have fiberglass troubles, i let my buddy wildbill69 figure something out

its the down time I'm not in to.
I'm all about doing things right the first time i guess i will epoxy these in place tomorrow i need to pick up some glue/epoxy.

 

[Cliff]

better glass them in if you want it done right

 

[weston]

better glass them in if you want it done right

ya sure try and glass those in through he hole i cut in the liner i would have to remove the whole dang liner to Glass them in the reason they are so big is because I'm hoping the load will be spread out enough so there will not be a need to glass
they are glued in from wdk
also if you look at the stock yami hood ther is no plate just two layers of glass and a nut i have two layers of glass and a giant piece of aluminum have you herd of stock hoods cracking in the same area?