How bad are these hoods if anyone could let me know. Planning on buying one in the future. Any feedback would be helpful.
Thanks

 

Anybody?

 

I've got one on my car, it gets nothing but compliments. See if you can get it unfinished from him since your shop is going to have to refinish it anyway. I have a few nicks and some small stress cracks but any good body shop should be able to take care of that. It fit a lot better than I thought and it looks great. Let me know if you want me to send you the pictures of some of the small issues I had with it and the finished product. Other than that it's a great hood.

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* 1998 Trans Am A4
* 292 RWHP / 309 Torque
* before cam and FLPs
* 330 RWHP / 334 Torque * before stage II heads
* mods: G2 sway bars, KB DD subframes, Tbyrne LCAs - panhard rod - & ported MAF ends, GTP Stage II heads, TR 224/224 112LSA 561 cam, FLPs, whisper c/f lid, K&N, HAL/QA shocks, NGK TR55 plugs, FTRA, custom tuning and a few other things.

 

I've seen Bloodztone's car and that hood is sweet looking!

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2001 Z28, Black, leather and T's.
A few appearance, suspension and engine mods and she sniffs crack!

 

Coolest looking hoods on the market.

Most expensive hoods on the market, by a factor of 30-40%.

Worst fitting hood on the market.

Most expensive hood to install, due to body work to try and fit.

It's your call, you have to decide if the overall look is important enough for you to spend the extra money for a hood with a "few small issues".

Quite frankly, for the $$ you will spend for a Mecham, you can pick up a used stock hood for $50 to $100 take it to a good fabricator and they can modify it to look how ever you want. Then since it's stock, the fit will be fine. A body shop will have to do minimal adjustment and fitting - just paint.

Good Luck

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'01 Mystic Teal Z28
A4/3.23/Leather/T-Tops
Mods List Here

12.38/110.72/1.74 60'
325 rwhp/341 rwtq
www.MysticZ28.com

NorCal LS1/LT1

"To play it safe is not to play"

 

If you can send me the pics before and after I'd appreciate, also if you can tell me how much it cost you all together with the body shop fixing it. Email: Lukey2i@aol.com,
Thanks.

I love the hood, I wouldn't mind spending 960 for it, there isn't many of them outhere, haven't seen one on a car yet. But if there is too much to fix, than I believe it isn't worth the cost.

 

my old mans got an 02 mecham. its def. a sweet car.
as for the hood, there were only 2 blemishes on it. on the drivers side of the heat extractors there a few ripples that were not worked out but they are not very deep at all. you can only see it if your looking down the hood from the drivers doorway. the other is on the right front where the headlight meets the corner of hte hood the hood was a little tall in that corner. I adj the headlamp cover a little higher in that corner and youd never know it even if you were looking over the hood.
for the improved looks, I think its def. worth it. not too many of those around. Plus, you can have the awesome hoodbird put on too. my dads car is black w/silver bird. it looks soooo sweet. got pics but cant put them in my comp. cause somethings either wrong w/my comp. or my camera. it keeps reseting the pc when I try to download pics.

 

If anyone can show me pics with the unfinished hood on the car I'd be very greateful.

 

a few pics of hood I do
have.

http://photos.yahoo.com/bc/irocss86/...+stuff&.view=t




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1986 Iroc Z
355, ported camel hump heads,750 holley, 700r4, 10.5 compr., forged flat tops, solidcam .501I .510E, 4gen rear w/3:73 posi, girdle, and disc's, Edel. torker II, shift kit, 3500 stal, hedmann LT. headers, 4 gen seats, man. strg., lt1 starter, alum. w/p, msd 6al, coil, dist., mallory wires.13.34 @102mph best w/that combo. have trick flow heads and tighter conv. to put in currently.

1995 z28,SS Hood, Iroc style spoiler, tints and black outs, 700r4,2400 act. stall speed,B&M hammer shifter, 17" budnick trilogy III wheels, 275/40 ZR17, 160 stat, man. cooling fan sw., homemaid CAI,1LE elbow, hypertech airfoil, t.b.bypass,!cat, flowmaster, !maf screen, relocated batt., 1LE front l.c.a.s', poly trans and torq.arm bushings, MSD 6AL, custom program, p&p maf, accel coil, and under drive pulley

mods that i have, just not on car yet:
msd wires, edelbrock mid. headers, edelbrock rpm catback

 

The mecham gets a lot of looks, but it does come with a lot of problems. I loved it on my old car (see pics in sig), but I sure don't miss it now...
good luck,
Shane


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2002 Sunset Orange Metallic WS6 T/A MN6-PICS-


Mods: Whisper Lid/Whisper MAF ends/MAFT(+10/-4)/FLP headers/Hooker catback/BMR STB
Looks: Custom polished ROH Snypers
Other: Redline/K&N filter/NGK TR55s/MSD wires/Potenza RE730s/Zaino
99 Pewter/Red 'Mecham' T/A MN6 - SOLD

 

shane, just curious what kind of problems did you have and what did they have to do w/the conversion? dads car only has 800 mi.s on it, but it certainly doesnt have any problems right now. chris

 

Sorry, I meant problems with the hood. I did not have a converted car, just the hood added... I had fitment and quality issues with the hood. Did I mention I just had the hood?

Shane