Tell me about it. I had my front Roush fascia installed and painted a while back for 400.00.terrible match and it bothered me ever since. I'm having it repainted for 700 i'm debating whether to get a running pony airbrushed under the hood..More $$$$what do you guys think?

 

from day one, no heat, no miles...bad hood, period!

 

scott's hood struts were installed wrong, they put it between the hood and the hinge, it was not warped at all...the strut was acting as a spacer forcing the hood up in the back corner.
this is what phil at trufiber told me!

 

Hummmm.....what are they doing to fix ur problem?

 

+1...

 

heres some pics installed but unpainted..Nice fit.I did notice a lot of flutter at just 60 mph

 

more

 

It is more than just the warping, I have fitment issues and very large gaps along the sides. It was also short end to end, it is almost like my hood was to small for the car.
What is who doing to fix my problem? By they, who do you mean?

 

Chuck, screw out those for 4 hexagonal shaped rubbers that sit against the hood, that will fix it!

 

The guy took 2 of them out so the hood wouldn't sit high. I didn't know there were 4.Do you think this will affect the fitment?

 

Umm, slow your roll there!! I hate when people speak of my car with no knowledge of it at all! In the future, if there's questions about my car, people can just ask me and I'll tell them or show pics. My hood struts were installed correctly!! They were put under the hinge, NOT between the hood and hinge! There is no way possible to do this with them. That's like saying the engine was installed upside down and that's why it runs rough!! They mount underneath it and also have a little rubber adhesive button that keeps it from digging into the hood. This is not my first go round with struts, and I'm not a moron! I used these struts with the stock hood and with the TruFiber GT hood with no problems. The hood bowed in the middle with the struts on, it did not lift at the back corner, as can clearly be seen in the pic. I have the Steeda struts, and think they did not compress enough to allow for the extra thickness of this hood.
These pictures can speak for themselves, as they plainly show them.

Hood showing bow with Steeda struts on

Hood with no bow after removing stuts

Correctly installed Steeda Struts(hinge is clearly under strut)

Another showing hinge correctly installed under strut

 

Scott,where are the hood pins on top of the hood? I noticed the hood shakes at relatively low speeds(50 & up)what can I do about it? I do not like pins on the hood.

 

Hood looks good Chuck!

Update for me. Car has an appointment for Monday. Will have the car back sometime Wednesday will post pictures sometime end of next week.

Now Im concerend with the flapping your getting... I wasn't planning on doing hood pins, I'm not much of a fan... Can anyone else comment? I do ALOT of highway driving 70+

 

Scott,
As you can see by my quote that you quoted, That is what I understood from Phil, No big deal, sorry....Also, no one is calling you a moron at all!!!
Phil told me "The body shop installed his struts incorrectly, once it was corrected the bow went away"
I dont really understand your Steeda struts, I have MRT's.
When i was purchasing this hood, i was told the struts would be fine, as a matter of fact, i also believe you had said this on a few occasions.
With your struts installed it looks like your driver's side is not raised up, just your passenger side, am I correct? So, have you taken these struts off? if so, are you now back to a prop rod or different struts?
My struts appear to not have any extra load on them, perhaps I am wrong, maybe I should disconnect them and see what happens. Did not mean to ruffle your feathers, and I see your point...Sorry again!

 

Yeah Dave.
I apologize for insinuating that you were calling me a moron! Sorry for the rant. Sometimes, I'm not the brightest bulb in the knife drawer, but with this I completely knew what I was doing. Phil gave you complete unaccurate info. I was ****ed at this, not you. The body shop, SW Body and Paint, did nothing except for prepping and painting the hood, which they did a stellar job at! Ed, the owner and fellow 2006 Mustang show car owner(pics at bottom) did a great job. I took my truck and picked up the hood and put it on myself. Ed has only seen my car at the shows. My Steeda struts are very similar to the MRT's. My hood was bowed, particularly on one side. I had no bow when it was test fitted(with no struts hooked up), then had the bow when it was put on the day before the Fun Ford Weekend. I took the car to the FFW and dropped it off in the booth for Hardcore Mustangs/TruFiber and left it there for the display. Whe I got back, Phil told me that he was very upset about the bow, and with the help of Ernie(owner of Hardcore), they looked at it to see why it was bowing(I had no time to look into it). Ernie suggested that they remove the struts and see what the result was, and the bow was gone. When I returned at the end of the day, Phil told me what they found. I took the car home and removed the struts and reinstalled the prop rod. One of the struts does not compress as much as the other, so I can only figure this is the culprit.

Boltzman: The pics with the pins are with the TruFiber Shelby GT hood, and are meant to show that I do in fact, know how to install them correctly. I have no pins on this hood(yet), but my rubber stops are adjusted correctly, and I get no lifting or "fluttering" up to 115mph with this hood. I am looking for a set of original twist locks to use on this hood, but have only found one vendor.

Ed(pictured at left) and his Mustang from SW Body and Paint at Queen Mary 11 show

 

I have no problem with the front of my hood (height) at all, I was getting a little fluttering, I adjusted those for rubber deals out evenly and it tighten right up

 

[quote=Scotte28516;1047246]Yeah Dave.
I apologize for insinuating that you were calling me a moron! Sorry for the rant. Sometimes, I'm not the brightest bulb in the knife drawer, but with this I completely knew what I was doing. Phil gave you complete unaccurate info. I was ****ed at this, not you. The body shop, SW Body and Paint, did nothing except for prepping and painting the hood, which they did a stellar job at! Ed, the owner and fellow 2006 Mustang show car owner(pics at bottom) did a great job. I took my truck and picked up the hood and put it on myself. Ed has only seen my car at the shows. My Steeda struts are very similar to the MRT's. My hood was bowed, particularly on one side. I had no bow when it was test fitted(with no struts hooked up), then had the bow when it was put on the day before the Fun Ford Weekend. I took the car to the FFW and dropped it off in the booth for Hardcore Mustangs/TruFiber and left it there for the display. Whe I got back, Phil told me that he was very upset about the bow, and with the help of Ernie(owner of Hardcore), they looked at it to see why it was bowing(I had no time to look into it). Ernie suggested that they remove the struts and see what the result was, and the bow was gone. When I returned at the end of the day, Phil told me what they found. I took the car home and removed the struts and reinstalled the prop rod. One of the struts does not compress as much as the other, so I can only figure this is the culprit.

Boltzman: The pics with the pins are with the TruFiber Shelby GT hood, and are meant to show that I do in fact, know how to install them correctly. I have no pins on this hood(yet), but my rubber stops are adjusted correctly, and I get no lifting or "fluttering" up to 115mph with this hood. I am looking for a set of original twist locks to use on this hood, but have only found one vendor.

No problem, I hear where you are coming from!
That Ed can paint

 

those hex stops ARE what keep your hood from shaking...a lot of guys cars came from the factory with these stops adjusted improperly, thus the hood shaking and the unnecessary use of pins...i'm not saying all your problems will be solved with adjustment, but removing them will not help!

as far as twist locks i have not found a vendor who specifically designs these for our years. guys that have them are fabricating brackets on radiator support to make 71 and 73 mach pins work.

 

Here's some daylight shots of the underside....

Bill

 

as for the ? about the hood shake, it doesnt take much speed at all to start shaking this hood. at 50-60+ mph the hood not only shakes it starts to lift up on both front corners, so much so that while driving from what I can tell it creates a gap along the whole length of the hood, friends driving along side of me say it pulls up A LOT. So I would say that hood pins would be needed.