WELL THIS MORING I WAS IN A HURRY .........also it was raining a little ....so i put my turbo hood on .....well i did have time to put my hood pins in ...so i bungie corded it on and forgot all about it ....well when i got up to 55mph this evening my cord broke ............ so ****ing lame ....my hood bent in alot of spots and it bent right under my winsheld ............i think i can fix my car but the turbo hood is NO more....it broke the turbo vent right in half .the other vent came off and ended up so far down the road .......i had to walk aways to find it......I HAD TO LOOK THOUGH THE VENT AS I GOT IT OFF THE ROAD ...i got so lucky that the hood didnt break or crack my winsheld ...the dent on the car is lame but i think i can fix it ...it will aways look like **** though..............i will post a pic of the hood as soon as my room mate brings it home i put it in this truck .my friend just brought me a slide hammer....... i tryed pull the dent but.........it didnt fix it that well i can bondo it but it wont ever be right


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I NEED ANOTHER TURBO HOOD .....ANYONE HAVE ONE for saLE ???????????????????????

 

damn dude...consider youself lucky that didnt go trough your windshield...wow man....!!!! imnot gonn say anything about you not attaching that thing on (well forgettin it wasnt) cuz ive done lame stuff too before... but be carefull next time

ok one more time WOW MAN!!!!!

 

heres the hood ......i used the dent puller and then sanded the spot to metal ...i put the frist layer of bondo then sanded it down looks like **** .....two more layers and it should look alittle better i got so lucky that SHE didnt get ****ed up more than THAT LITTLE SPOT AND A FEW CHIPS {AT MY SELF}..........
I had that bungie for so long how the hell did it snap ?.....seeing that hood come up at 55mph was scary ........
my face my girls face

 

damn man luky escape! hehe my mate did the same thing in his supra SZ lol didnt do up all the bolts on his targa roof and tha damn thing flew off at 140 on the freeway and got run over by a truck hehehe i couldnt stop laughing when he called me to help him out hehehe

 

That sucks sorry to hear and see that. I only have my one Turbo hood, and it is on my Bluestreak. But if I had another one. I would've hooked you up. Check the bone-yards, e-bay, and see what you can find. That really hurts just looking at your car. Tough break man, but at least you didn't park under a station wagon. Like I did, I destroyed my whole front-end on my '81. That is the main reason he is down. He runs pretty damn good for an original engine with over 133,000 miles! I could drive him right now. But I don't want to drive something, that looks like it came from the junkyard. I mean bailing wire holding the headlights in, rope keeping the hood on. At least the frame is allright, and all the way to the rear of the car. I got lucky in that respect. But I have to get a whole front body piece cut off a wreck, and then have it welded on perfectly straight, and aligned, so the body parts will go back on him right. That is mainly why I am trying to get my '82 running. Granted he does have dents and dings here and there. But you have to look at him just right. Anyway sorry about my rambling, just like to release some pressure. But anyway I wish you luck on fixing your Z, back to where it was before. And also finding another hood. It shouldn't be too difficult. Because as long as you get one from either a Turbo, or n/a '82-'83 they are the same.

 

That sucks man! Get the car down to a body shop they should be able to fill that with some welds and grind it back to shape. Or get if you or some one you know can weld you can do it yourself and save some money. Just get it as straight as you can first. That bondo wont last too long right there on an edge like that.

 

I Put Three Layers Of Bondo On It And It Is Smoothing Out Nice Likey
The Vent Is Almost Flat Again One More Sanding And One More Small Coat And I Will Be Able To Tape It Of ...then Prime It ...i Ant Got The Money Right Now To Have It Fixed ...also No One But Me And Bleach Have Worked On My Car And I Want To Keep It That Way

 

I have another turbo hood that has some damage to it. Less than yours though. We can trade hoods if you want. I'll get some pics later.

 

Sounds Good Bleach I Will See You At Meeting Of The Minds Tomarrow......

 

uhh... I can't carry that hood in my Z. You'll have to come pick it up at my place.

 

That sucks.. Almost as big of a mistake as me pushig a lifted Bronco.. {cmon J we need that carbon!!}

 

hey if you need to find some parts for your Z there's an all nissan (& some toyota) junkyard down on 40th street bettween I-10 and University. Last time i was there they had 15 to 20 different Z cars on the lot. if you're looking for body parts they're ripe for the picking. got myself a set of perfect headlight buckets there for $25. too bad one of them got smashed while i was moving

 

Actually Wildman has the website.. There is 2 warehouses 2 miles down the street from my house on cavecreek and deervalley that has a shitload of "like new" Z and ZX parts.. It is rediculous.. I got my doors from them for 80 a piece gutted but absolutly no rust what so ever...

 

why dont you take yours off...put the turbo one on and tie it down with some rope or something so it comes off easy when you meet up with the guy :P












im kiddin..

 

Hey Skully, I hear bungie cords are alot more reliable then rope . Sorry black, I couldn't resist

 

Yeah thanks 007 for the info. If you want the website to all Z cars. Here it is for you. www.zcarsource.com. That is the one that s/cL3.0 is talking about. It is a pretty cool place, just some stuff is kinda pricey. But overall, for the inventory not bad at all.

 

yeah i've seen that site before, but based on their posted prices i couldn't afford to shop there guess i should have gotten around to going there in person while i was still in AZ huh.... is there anything decent interior-wise there? the place i'm talking about didn't have anything worth salvaging in that department