Anyone use the stock GT500 hood with their conversion? I was thinkin about using this because its pretty cheap compared to all the fancy stuff. I did the conversion and have my stock GT hood on and was wondering how it would look with the stock GT500 hood without stripes. Also i think the fiasca looks bad *** from a side view but kinda wierd from a distant straight ahead view but maybe its just because i have a flat gt hood

 

 

I love the stock GT500 hood but I support the TRUFIBER line and love the way they enhance the look.

 

I found one with stripe delete but i am having trouble finding a front view

 

It's an awesome conversion with or without the stripes! If and when I do this conversion I plan on using the Shelby hood.

 

If I were to do a conversion it would be w/o stripes, not questions asked. If i were to ever buy a real GT500 it would also have no stripes. I hate being looked at and stripes make people look.

The reason I asked earlier for pics was because you were talking about you stock hood with the GT500 fascia. Now that you have added some pics I will give you I like how clean it looks, it to me is very sleek! Again nice job on saving some money and having a clean car. I would not change a thing on it, but maybe spend the $$ on some rims in place of the GT500 hood

 

I'm saving up right now for some rims. I think im going to buy the CS40 rims I had on my other GT before my accident. It looks really good with a black car

 

Here's one with ghost stripes. Might be good enough to give you an idea how it's look?

 

Don't do it at all if people looking bugs you. They're going to look, stripes or not, due to the aggressive appearence and relative rarity of the GT500 style nose.

 

that looks pretty nice but if i get stripes they would be painted...and thats expensive. also i've always wanted to know what those circular things are on the bottom grill

 

it's the brake cooling ducts from the gt500kr/super snake

 

Correct, except in this case it's the JDM bezels, not the Shelby ones.

 

I was able to do the entire GT500 conversion with painted stripes but without emblems for under $4400. The paint & body work alone was over half of the total cost, but they did an awesome job! I put together all of the parts by keeping an eye on Craigslist and also posting a WTB for an OEM rear spoiler on a couple of Mustang sites. I ended up getting parts from 5 different people including KC. One guy posted that his conversion was about $9k total, so I think I did pretty good!

The "hunt" for a good deal is half of the fun for me. I did save some money by doing the front end swap & foglight wiring myself (not very hard at all!). I also removed the stock rear spoiler and faux gas cap (a real PITA).

For those of you considering this conversion, keep in mind that larger parts (like an entire used GT500 front end) can be shipped via Greyhound pretty inexpensively. You just have to be able to pick them up at the bus terminal.

 

close enough, they look the same

 

oh so they actually do something not just for looks?