Simple hood hinges.
 

Easy

1) Trim off about half of the back screw posts on the hood.
2) Glue elastic cord in the holes, you may need to enlarge the holes to fit your elastic.
3) Run the cord through the back screw holes.
4) Tie off the elastic under the body.
5) Straighten and cut a paperclip to length to hold it open.
6) For everyday driving screw the front of the hood down.

Underside view.

Well, uh, I guess it's simple alright...
Think it'd work opening the other way? :cool:

Yes it would.

elastic cord out of a bungee cord? would a rubber band work?

Yes anything that stretches, fits into the holes, and can be held by the type of glue your using.

The stronger it is the better, and it really helps to let the glue dry all the way before tying it off or pulling on it in any way.

but why would you want it to open? i could understand if it had something under there besides a big hole that shows off the grayish brown front chassis suspension but it doesnt. you need to find a model with a plastic engine model and stick it under there.

That’s just it there are lots of things you can show.

There are some really cool engraved aluminum front plates. Or how about external FETs. I’m working on a front plate pc board with 2x3 stacked IRF7389’s with some surface mounted diodes to light it up just when you want to show it.

get some plastic mirror matterial to put on the body whre hte hood covers and on the botttom of the hood =P

RSX Hood
 

Like this.

Awesome.

Nice. :D

Lights on RSX external fet and regulator front deck pcb show through front opening hood.

With hood open.

:eek: :eek: :eek: WOW....how'd u get tha leds to produce that image under ur hood?

By putting a negative decal on the underside of the hood.

Wow!!!!

lbrc, nice clean work!

LBRC would you consider selling me one of those kits for my Supra please??? If you didn't make it where did you get it from? Let me know please... I really want one for my Supra... I'm also gonna do the Hood flip thing only mine is gonna flip to the right hand side... Lemme know if you can hook me up with that light kit I sure would like to have one in red...

Light Sets
 

Sure, be glad to.

I’ve been trying to put some on a web page I’ve been working on unfortunately work has been getting in the way. Just email me a few specifics about what you are looking for and I’ll tell you how much it will cost and how long it will take. There are several different light kits on the cars in my web page photo gallery www.lbspd.com.

The only thing I can’t do right now is make a front deck turbo with the hood lights like on the RSX (I used up all of my circuit boards and they take too much time to make, sorry).

I would like the exact same kind of Light setup that you have on your RSX except make the underglow lights red and the tail pipe red the front lights should be bright white or bright blue no fog lights please... Gimme a price and let me know... Thanks...:D :D

hotrod29728
I sent an email, hope you got it.

i would like the same thing as hotrod but make the underglow blue and the tailpipe blue, email me. thanx