Yoshi's VR-4 Transformation **Pic Heavy**

[Hard AttacK]

Awesome thread. I want to see a sleepy eye hood

[Nihil]

Just curious, but if you're doing a 1g to 2g front end conversion and also doing the angry eyes like that, do you even need to replace the hood, since the area where the lights are located, is being re-worked? Just sorta crossed my mind and was curious about it

[IPD]

Just curious, but if you're doing a 1g to 2g front end conversion and also doing the angry eyes like that, do you even need to replace the hood, since the area where the lights are located, is being re-worked? Just sorta crossed my mind and was curious about it

technically, i don't think you do. but the key problem is that (iirc) the outer corners for where the hood is "cut out" for the headlights is in a different location on 1g vs. 2g. just welding in a straight piece "drawn across the hypotenuse" would give a somewhat different look on a 1g hood--BECAUSE those points differ.

*edit*
also if memory serves, since the 1g hood has a WIDER cut-out (side to side), you'd be leaving a small gap between hood and bumper if you proceeded as above. you would have to devise something creative to deal with that.

[DrGonzo]

Yes the hoods would still need to be swapped out. 1st gen light cutouts are smaller so they overhang the front of the bumper. You can see what I mean in this pic, lok where the front bumper comes up to meet the hgood, the hood is wider in the center section.

[Nihil]

Ah yes, I see now...I knew the light cut out was completely different but thought, since it's being re-worked anyway, ya know? But now that you point out the length of the hood...hmm and after seein that, I always thought there was a difference in length or shape of the front end from 1g to 2g, guess that shows it right there