Fitting gas struts similar to rear boot ones to bonnet ?

Just wondering if anyone's done it since nice modern cars have it , look good effective , where did you mount them from precisely  :idea: :idea:

move this to chassis/suspension should get more hits but im pretty sure without MAJOR custom engineering it cant be done in general

But this is a visual/body mod. It's in the right section.

There's no better really.

As for doing it. Never been done, but there's no extensive modification needed. All you'd need to do is go out and find the ball ends and strong arm for them from a 4th gen maxima. Drill a hole in the fender, and attach the ball to it.

Then do the same on the hood. Easy peasy. I've just NEVER found the prop to be an issue. I like my hood not dropping on my head unexpectedly.

Like Jay said, it'd be incredibly simple. Just get strong enough struts to hold the hood at the right height, given their length, pop holes where they need to go, bolt it down.

It'd be a lot more complicated if you were trying to do a torsion spring setup like a lot of trucks have. (Though I've never seen one of those fail, while I've seen many gas supported setups wear out)

I'm also with Jay on another thing: Prop-rods aren't too bad, and I've only got one arm to hold the hood up and get a prop rod in. That said, I do like torsion spring supports. Lets me open the hood just enough for whatever. I mean I can dangle jumper cables out with the hood mostly shut and there's no weight on the cables, for example. Lets me avoid city hassle too, because it can be open and look shut.

You need to workout the location of the anchor points otherwise you may not be able to close the hood.   The distance between the point on the body to the point on the hood at closed position must be longer then the strut's retracted length, otherwise your hood will not close.  You need to know the length of the strut in full extension and the length in the retracted position, the offset distance of the anchor point on the body to the pivot (hinge) point of the hood then you can  lay it out on a piece of cardboard.  If you locate the body anchor point closer to the hood's hind, the opening for the hood will be lower.   Another way of figuring out the two locations is to first find a good anchor place on the body and use a piece of tape to mark it on the fender.  From this mark you measure a distance of the retracted length of the strut and use another piece of tape  to mark on the hood, this would be the point where you want to anchor the strut on the hood.  You should test and see if these two points will give you enough room when the hood is open.

i was half asleep my bad just rid of my reply

oi benj, we do this with 510 hoods a lot.

we use BMW or Honda trunk shocks.

might want to look into 510 write ups for some ideas.

Might be able to use some for a celica supra as well

my mk2 supra had these.  I kept a block of wood handy...  but only after the hood fell on me twice.  should have learned the first time.

As long as they aren't blown out, they work well and it's nice not having to work around the proper rod.

Why not Tein Hood dampers?



or for the bling....Greddy Carbon dampers :hahanot:

lol cuz you cen get em out of the yard for like $15

thats true,
just was mention it