hey my friend and i fabricated a hydraulic rear hatch strut for my SE to hold the hood up instead of the puny stock piece (mine is bent to crap). still needs some finishing but works good so far, pics coming as soon as i get them off his camera

 

Pics would be great, as I am planning to the same. My hood prop rod is missing, and I was going to adapt the lift shocks, rather than replace the rod.

 

I have an extra hood prop.
You can have it for the shipping cost.
Dennis L. cote

 

I will upload the pics as soon as RarisRX7 and I can get together and take them. I must agree, it didnt turn out bad for a last minute $20 and 2 hour job LOL. Will post them soon probably tomm around 2 or 3 pm eastern.

 

i did this a while back, but the strut i had was old and weak, if i get my hands on a good strut i will put it back on

 

What kind of strut did you use? Does the hood lift itself relatively easily? Where did you mount it so that it folds properly out of the way? How did you figure out the proper open/close angles so that it would open and close fully?

I'm interested in this in a big way

Oh, and how did you mount it?

Jon

 

I was actually thinking of putting a pair of these on, just for added holding power. My 12 year old son would prefer that I do something, as he is my current prop rod. LOL

 

actually i just bought a generic $15 unit and mounted it to the left side (only 1 hydraulic needed, plus stock airbox is in the way on the right side on my GSL-SE) strut tower (to one of the shock screws) and the other end to the hood, at the stock hood mount location. no angles etc were figured out, it was actually a fairly simple job. pics should be up monday, me and Maroon93Talon will post them here

 

Ok guys. I finally got the pics uploaded to my comp so I can post them.

 

I have a few more I'll post later.

 

that would PwN if you could just pull the hood latch and it would fly open on it's own.

 

very sweet, would love to do that with mine.

 

Very cool, Great idea ..

 

That looks almost exactly like what Greg did a LONG time ago. Not to bash your idea, I mean, its cool, but he did it first, lol.

~T.J.

 

lol thanks, my hood prop is totalled so me and maroon93talon decided to make it better. thats me in the 2nd pic BTW