Hood scoop blew off tonight

g36 monkey · Feb 23, 2013

I was "moving" on the way home from go-carting tonight. At some point, my scoop decided it no longer wanted to stay on the car. The inner frame ripped out of the scoop. Some of the frame is on my hood still. It's damaged, but the rest of the car looks ok. It seems like it just barely nicked my wing.

I have a hood scoop I bought in New York I was planning on re-selling, but looks like it will just have to be re-painted now, and put on my car haha.

Pics tomorrow.

Twista · Feb 23, 2013

Be glad it wasn't your manifold.... too much powaahhhhhhhhhhhhh

g36 monkey · Feb 23, 2013

lmao, just the scoop, funny thing is I didn't notice it. My buddy's like "soo, you just gonna leave the scoop back there?" I was like "Holy crap it did fly off!"

It just lifted straight up, it was hilarious. Funny, but upsetting all at the same time.

belber095 · Feb 23, 2013

sorry to hear man

especially after all the hard work you put into this thing.
time for a cowl?

Orange 94 · Feb 23, 2013

Well I guess that's the 4.3 for you. Upgrade 4.2 to 4.3, screw the scoop!

chris91 · Feb 23, 2013

ROFL I had the same thing happen but mine never completely came loose. Just one corner busted free. I went and bought some 2 part epoxy and glued the tab back on and reinforced the others. I also added two extra bolts to mine. One on the front in the middle and one on the back in the middle. Havent had a problem since.

KillNThrill24 · Feb 23, 2013

Damn that sucks lol but had to have been funny. I would loctite the bolts when you put the new one on

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Musturd · Feb 23, 2013

chris91 said:
ROFL I had the same thing happen but mine never completely came loose. Just one corner busted free. I went and bought some 2 part epoxy and glued the tab back on and reinforced the others. I also added two extra bolts to mine. One on the front in the middle and one on the back in the middle. Havent had a problem since.

That's 3

by the way that sucks buddy

ttocs · Feb 23, 2013

reminds me of when I had my mirrors painted. a week later the glass fell out while I was driving....

I am afraid to say that with this news I will have to pull my vote for ROTM and demand a recount

g36 monkey · Feb 23, 2013

belber095 said:
sorry to hear man
especially after all the hard work you put into this thing.
time for a cowl?

Ha nah, I can't afford a new hood and then getting it painted. My paint is still flawless, so I just need to put a new scoop to fill all the holes. But I already have one I bought to re-sell, so now I'll just have to use it haha.

Orange 94 said:
Well I guess that's the 4.3 for you. Upgrade 4.2 to 4.3, screw the scoop!

I has a 4.3 lol, wtf. And I love the scoop!

chris91 said:
ROFL I had the same thing happen but mine never completely came loose. Just one corner busted free. I went and bought some 2 part epoxy and glued the tab back on and reinforced the others. I also added two extra bolts to mine. One on the front in the middle and one on the back in the middle. Havent had a problem since.

Sad thing is I had epoxied all around the inside of this thing. It came off a wrecked Bullitt, and apparently they are a little different than regular GT scoops ha. So now I'm back to a regular scoop but O well =/

KillNThrill24 said:
Damn that sucks lol but had to have been funny. I would loctite the bolts when you put the new one on

The bolts are all in the hood still lol.

Musturd said:
That's 3

by the way that sucks buddy

I'll have to figure something out, because they bump up on my intake if I have the center ones on.

ttocs said:
reminds me of when I had my mirrors painted. a week later the glass fell out while I was driving....

I am afraid to say that with this news I will have to pull my vote for ROTM and demand a recount

haha I AM NOT WORTHY!!

Tony · Feb 23, 2013

dammit!

always after a fresh paintjob..something shitty happens. sorry monkey

ttocs · Feb 23, 2013

crap like that would get me mad enough to literally jump up and down(stomping on the down as hard as I can) while cursing in 4 languages(1 completely made up and 2 butchered badly). If I had my gun on my I would shoot it down into the ground like yosemite sam till I was 3 ft off the ground, probably sound like him too....

ProKiller · Feb 23, 2013

yeah this wouldn't of happened if it was just painted. sucks but at least you have a spare and don't have to searching for one.

FrankenStang · Feb 23, 2013

better the scoop than the whole hood...now its time for an autozone scoop to cover the hole...now that would be cool !

white95 · Feb 23, 2013

Too fast for the hood scoop

Goldmember · Feb 23, 2013

That sucks. From what I've read this problem is more common than you'd think, the scoop really isn't on there that securely as Ford set it up. Hence why I think the V6 hood looks better.

g36 monkey · Feb 23, 2013

Tony said:
dammit!

always after a fresh paintjob..something shitty happens. sorry monkey

Ha, I'd been waiting for something

ttocs said:
crap like that would get me mad enough to literally jump up and down(stomping on the down as hard as I can) while cursing in 4 languages(1 completely made up and 2 butchered badly). If I had my gun on my I would shoot it down into the ground like yosemite sam till I was 3 ft off the ground, probably sound like him too....

Haha, I was laughing. I'm upset, but the whole thing was pretty funny

ProKiller said:
yeah this wouldn't of happened if it was just painted. sucks but at least you have a spare and don't have to searching for one.

Too bad the spare won't be here till April haha. I called my painter this morning, he has a wrecked Mustang in his yard he's putting cowl on, and there's a scoop on there. When he calls me back I'll see if we can work a deal on getting that one,

FrankenStang said:
better the scoop than the whole hood...now its time for an autozone scoop to cover the hole...now that would be cool !

On my way to the store now!

white95 said:
Too fast for the hood scoop

About 125 or so ;p

Goldmember said:
That sucks. From what I've read this problem is more common than you'd think, the scoop really isn't on there that securely as Ford set it up. Hence why I think the V6 hood looks better.

Wonder how bad it would be to run a little bead of epoxy around the inside after it's bolted down. Realistically, when do you ever need to pull the scoop off?