Ram Air Hood Trouble
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From: Austin
When you prefit the hood make sure the two rubber stops on the corners are adjusted properly. I had to screw mine down a few turns because they were pushing the corners up. I also took off the two rubber pieces that attach to the bracket that hold the grill to the hood and that helped also. Sorry about the bad news.
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Thanks! (hopefully we get that far to even looking at those)... we haven't even gotten to the front stops yet... It isn't matching up back by the windshield..
If you look closely at this picture from the ram air hood website. It looks like this hood is raised up a bit from the fender.
If you look closely at this picture from the ram air hood website. It looks like this hood is raised up a bit from the fender.
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Here's the latest...I spoke with the installer at Ram Air Hood and he gave me some steps to give to the body shop to get this thing installed correctly. Apparently, he just heats up around the bracket with a heat gun and then pushes the hood down until it matches up properly. Then air blows it to cool it down. Hope it works! I have it scheduled in a week from today.
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Originally Posted by JurassicBob
Well, I just got back from the bodyshop. They had the hood on and it was fitted properly! They are painting it tomorrow! It appears that I am going to have a happy ending with this one.
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Originally Posted by andrzej77ff
What exactly did thay do to make it fit just right?
This is what the installer with APM told me to have them do. He said that he does this all the time to get them to fit when they sit too high.
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I Don't know if I would like them to heat and bend the brackets to just to get the hood to line up the way it should have in the first place. But please post pics after you get it back I would like to see the end results.
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Originally Posted by recon_sct
I Don't know if I would like them to heat and bend the brackets to just to get the hood to line up the way it should have in the first place. But please post pics after you get it back I would like to see the end results.
Plastic hoods.... huh.
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Originally Posted by bugburp
The aren't heating and bending the brackets, they heat the hood (plastic) where it attaches to the brackets and just mash it down so hood lines up.
Plastic hoods.... huh.
Plastic hoods.... huh.
Exactly...
As far as plastic... according to the website, this is the same sort of engineered plastics that they stick on Saturns. Although much more rigid.
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Originally Posted by a n t h o n y
How do you guys manage to get the sense to replace an aluminum stock hood that is made by Alcoa with an aftermarket one that is meant for a saturn ?
This hood wasn't "meant" for a Saturn, I was merely using the comparison that the company uses on their website in trying to explain how the hood is manufactured. They have been using plastics on all cars for quite a while now, and apparently this material is superior to hand laid fiberglass which most other aftermarket hoods are made from.
As they say, To each his own...
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Originally Posted by rocky85
The ram air hood is a lot more weightier and more durable than cheap sheet metal. When I took the stock hood off, the stock hood actually felt like it was made from plastic, not the other way around.
Alcoa Wins Ford F-150 Pick-Up Hood Contract
PITTSBURGH,July 1, 2003--(Business Wire) -- Alcoa today announced it has been awarded a contract to supply aluminum for the hoods of Ford Motor Company's recently re-designed F-150 pick-up truck.
The 2004 F-150 is an all-new version of the country's best-selling truck for the past 25 years and the best-selling vehicle of any type for the past 20 years. Alcoa, which supplies the aluminum used in the current F-series hood, will supply aluminum sheet that will be used to make the widest width aluminum closure produced in the North American automobile market. The 2004 F-150 launched last month.
This contract to supply the new F-150 further extends the long-term relationship between Alcoa and Ford Motor Company and is a testament to Alcoa's ability to meet the supply challenges associated with America's highest volume vehicle," said Rick Milner President, Alcoa Advanced Transportation Systems and head of Alcoa's automotive market sector team.
Alcoa also supplies heat shields for the 2004 F-150 to help manage heat away from critical components. Alcoa's automotive products featured on Ford trucks include closures panels, wiring harness and electrical distribution systems and aluminum wheels. Alcoa supplies global automakers with a variety of automotive components and assemblies, including aluminum sheet for body panels and hoods, wheels, electrical and electronic systems, structural cast and forged components and assemblies such as bumpers, engine cradles, drive shafts, roof systems and the like through its various automotive businesses.
Alcoa's worldwide automotive businesses have been integrated and aligned under an automotive market sector team, to give customers a single-point access to all of Alcoa's automotive capabilities. Alcoa solutions for the automotive market add performance, safety, fuel efficiency, and environment-enhancing capabilities to its customers' vehicles, using the Company's decades of design and engineering experience. Alcoa Automotive was just named one of the industry's top suppliers by original equipment manufacturer (OEM) readers of Automotive Industries magazine. For more information on Alcoa's automotive capabilities, visit www.alcoa.com/lnk/auto.
PITTSBURGH,July 1, 2003--(Business Wire) -- Alcoa today announced it has been awarded a contract to supply aluminum for the hoods of Ford Motor Company's recently re-designed F-150 pick-up truck.
The 2004 F-150 is an all-new version of the country's best-selling truck for the past 25 years and the best-selling vehicle of any type for the past 20 years. Alcoa, which supplies the aluminum used in the current F-series hood, will supply aluminum sheet that will be used to make the widest width aluminum closure produced in the North American automobile market. The 2004 F-150 launched last month.
This contract to supply the new F-150 further extends the long-term relationship between Alcoa and Ford Motor Company and is a testament to Alcoa's ability to meet the supply challenges associated with America's highest volume vehicle," said Rick Milner President, Alcoa Advanced Transportation Systems and head of Alcoa's automotive market sector team.
Alcoa also supplies heat shields for the 2004 F-150 to help manage heat away from critical components. Alcoa's automotive products featured on Ford trucks include closures panels, wiring harness and electrical distribution systems and aluminum wheels. Alcoa supplies global automakers with a variety of automotive components and assemblies, including aluminum sheet for body panels and hoods, wheels, electrical and electronic systems, structural cast and forged components and assemblies such as bumpers, engine cradles, drive shafts, roof systems and the like through its various automotive businesses.
Alcoa's worldwide automotive businesses have been integrated and aligned under an automotive market sector team, to give customers a single-point access to all of Alcoa's automotive capabilities. Alcoa solutions for the automotive market add performance, safety, fuel efficiency, and environment-enhancing capabilities to its customers' vehicles, using the Company's decades of design and engineering experience. Alcoa Automotive was just named one of the industry's top suppliers by original equipment manufacturer (OEM) readers of Automotive Industries magazine. For more information on Alcoa's automotive capabilities, visit www.alcoa.com/lnk/auto.