HOOD OPEN BACKWARDS ON O9 MAX??????
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HOOD OPEN BACKWARDS ON O9 MAX??????
Hey, does the hood open backwards on the latest maxima? I saw one at wal-mart and it sure did look like it.The seam goes around the front of car and down the sides of fenders,or atleast looked that way. Man I love the looks of them thangs, wish I could afford one,and them damn Infinity,are super slick.maxman7
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Hey, does the hood open backwards on the latest maxima? I saw one at wal-mart and it sure did look like it.The seam goes around the front of car and down the sides of fenders,or atleast looked that way. Man I love the looks of them thangs, wish I could afford one,and them damn Infinity,are super slick.maxman7
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same reason you would want suicide doors, lambo kits, flipflop trunks, gullwing doors, fender flares, rear diffuser, wings, body kits, split hoods, body lift kits, etc. You know where I am going with this. To each their own. Everyone wants to be different. Uniqueness is a good thing. I like the saturn sky, and pontiac solstice. They come stock with a hood like that.
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same reason you would want suicide doors, lambo kits, flipflop trunks, gullwing doors, fender flares, rear diffuser, wings, body kits, split hoods, body lift kits, etc. You know where I am going with this. To each their own. Everyone wants to be different. Uniqueness is a good thing. I like the saturn sky, and pontiac solstice. They come stock with a hood like that.
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same reason you would want suicide doors, lambo kits, flipflop trunks, gullwing doors, fender flares, rear diffuser, wings, body kits, split hoods, body lift kits, etc. You know where I am going with this. To each their own. Everyone wants to be different. Uniqueness is a good thing. I like the saturn sky, and pontiac solstice. They come stock with a hood like that.
For me a hood that opens the opposite direction is counterdefeating because now you have to do everything you planned on doing under the hood from the side or you gonna have to remove the hood to get at certain things.
I like practical applicability so this would be unpractical for me.
Thanks for the vote for uniqueness though.
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Don't forget the safety implication to a mod like this.
The factory design was worked in as part of an overall system to absorb energy, and protect the driver.
You remove the hinge pillars in teh rear of the hood, there's a chance a good front end collision could put
that thing right through the glass and into the passenger compartment with all the velocity of the impact,
and without having crumpled first.
Definitely should re-think any hood mod before doing it...is it worth dying for it.
The factory design was worked in as part of an overall system to absorb energy, and protect the driver.
You remove the hinge pillars in teh rear of the hood, there's a chance a good front end collision could put
that thing right through the glass and into the passenger compartment with all the velocity of the impact,
and without having crumpled first.
Definitely should re-think any hood mod before doing it...is it worth dying for it.
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