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Old 04-19-2010, 02:26 PM
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has anyone ever used the Mecham Performance heat extractor hood or rear wing?

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hood looks good

http://www.mechamperformance.com/d_docs/p_c5.html
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You might want to talk to "Woods" about it. He has their hood. I asked him about it as I saw some pictures of his car in one of the ACP threads. Here, this thread (see posts 79 and and 82):

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/auto...ducts-acp.html

He told me it was very poorly fitting when it arrived and took a lot of money to make it look good.
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Originally Posted by MySR71
You might want to talk to "Woods" about it. He has their hood. I asked him about it as I saw some pictures of his car in one of the ACP threads. Here, this thread (see posts 79 and and 82):

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/auto...ducts-acp.html

He told me it was very poorly fitting when it arrived and took a lot of money to make it look good.
Correct, the hood is very ruff and need alot of work by your body shop. I have had the hood on for 2 year and it definatly has some stress crack in it. But this is on a race car. In my opinion the ACP is superior in everyway even if it is extra $.
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thank yo ufor feedback it seemed a bit "too good" to be true.
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I vote for ACP. I bought a hood from them and it fits great.
Quality product.

My body guy painted the hood off the car and I installed it myself.
He "warned" me that aftermarket hoods usually don't fit like OEM and usually takes some work to get them looking decent because of quality.

The ACP hood is good quality and he didn't have to "fix" it before painting. I think it fits as good at the OEM hood. The hinges and latches bolt right up.

Only draw back is waiting time. Apparently they didn't have the hood pre-made. But quality is worth the wait if you aren't in a big hurry.
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Originally Posted by SS Racing
I vote for ACP. I bought a hood from them and it fits great.
Quality product.

My body guy painted the hood off the car and I installed it myself.
He "warned" me that aftermarket hoods usually don't fit like OEM and usually takes some work to get them looking decent because of quality.

The ACP hood is good quality and he didn't have to "fix" it before painting. I think it fits as good at the OEM hood. The hinges and latches bolt right up.

Only draw back is waiting time. Apparently they didn't have the hood pre-made. But quality is worth the wait if you aren't in a big hurry.
ACP makes all of their parts to order. Depending on when you order the parts (Race Season or Off Season) makes a difference.

ACP parts are very high quality and great fitting.

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