Hood side stiffeners

[Tundra]

A couple of posts over the years mention the spring steel stiffening strips that were apparently original equipment in the hoods up against the B post
Does anyone have a picture they can post showing them in place or are they completely enclosed if fitted properly?
My hood looks to have small pockets that might be for the strips if I knew the specification.

[Hughesy]

I used a lightweight dinghy sail batten. These are flexible fibreglass lengths with various stiffnesses available. Mine are about 8mm wide and 2 or 3mm thick. A sailing/boating shop should stock them or a sailmaker. Easy to cut to length and then file corners/sharp edges smooth. Cheers Craig

[jakesmig]

Reasonably well hidden and difficult to photograph clearly.

I bought and fitted a pair of these when i re assembled the car a couple of years ago, they weren't fitted previously. Have to say I can't think of what they do because as far as I can see there appears no difference in the performance of the hood or easier raising or lowering of same with them as without.

John

[Hughesy]

Their purpose is to stop the lower front corner of the hood from flaring out when travelling at speed.

[Danny]

I made up a couple from aluminium strip bar.

Danny

[Tundra]

Thanks for the suggestions so far - in the absence of any pictures am I right in thinking they are upright alongside the B post not running along the bottom edge of the hood?

[dickr]

here is a picture I found on the internet previously
Dick

[Tundra]

I've found a detailed explanation of how to replace the hood and a sketch of the stiffener and which way up to fit them on the tscusa.org site.

Looks to be lots of other technical articles as well so worth a look for general interest.

Sorry i'm not bright enough to put the website as a workable link!

[Hughesy]

The tscusa.org hood fitting instruction is also in our technical section.