t2 hood?
 

how much is a t2 hood worth? or how much would u pay for one?

I think that depends on if it's a steel or aluminum hood.

well i found a a couple at a junkyard but im guessing they are steel.. how can i tell if its alum?

1 million dollares lol for mwbuick

aluminium weighs ALOT less(and therefore is worth more :D )

Is it aluminum or steel? There is a carbon fiber one on craigslist right now for like $600.00 i think. I don't think anyone here would pay more than a couple hundred bucks for one. :shot2:

The latch on the aluminum hoods is riveted. Did they make steel TII hoods? I've never seen one.

I'm 90% sure that the did make a steel TII hood as well as an aluminum one.

Zach

i though S4 TIIs were steel and S5 TIIs were Aluminum

You can 100% sure now. I have a steel T2 Hood :( :(

I think it's only the early 87s that could have the steel hood, the rest I have seen are aluminum....lucky bastards.

I have an 87 with an aluminum hood

No, that is incorrect.

Turbo steel hoods were randomly used through out the FC production and used extensivly in body shops.

If your car was in a wreck, chances are it will have a steel hood unless you had an owner that knew better.

But series had little to do with what Mazda used. Mazda used alumn until they ran out and then switched to steel, and then back to alum when the alum hoods came back in stock at the suppliers.

Remember the S4 FC sold radically more than Mazda expected and production issues like using steel instead of alum was more common, but since the S5 radically undersold (must have been the lame tail lights:) ) there often were production issues of the opposite type (of having to use what was in the factory at Hiroshima- before ordering more parts).

mark you dont like the S5 taillights??

Uh... maybe with a magnet?

I would say that Steel TII hoods are still pretty rare...

You would be hard pressed to find a steel TII hood on an S5 car that is stock (no repairs/replacements) I have seen an 87 with a steel scouped hood. But no other year of TII have i seen with one yet anyway.

But with how much owners molest thier FCs its hard to find a truly stock car any more....

Personally I get them from local junkyards for about 50 and sell for about 200 (TII aluminum hoods) the tii alum hoods more easily found around here than the N/A aluminum hoods. Took me over a year to find one of thoese for under 100$. But I had bought two TII alum hoods for 50$ and sold both in that time for 200$

When I am in a junkyard and ganking hoods off FCs (i only take the aluminum ones if the price is right) the weight is usually a dead give away but if you dont have experince with both just grab a loose car speaker and use the magnet.

As far as how much they are worth; spend more than 200$ and you are getting ripped off unless it perfectly matches your car then it might be worth more to you.

I'm another 87 with a steel hood.

I have an '87, but I switched over to an aluminum TII hood for free. :) Now I'm going to trade it off for an aluminum N/A hood. So I can cut it up for my V-mount setup. :D

Zach

Nope... they look like a 87-88 T-bird which had the same exact style (round lights-hidden by the plastic, and a band of black or red plastic at the bottom- the only thing different is Mazda used a Yellow Turn signal lens, while Ford used Red)... I remember saying in late 88 when I saw the first 89 that Mazda made the tail lights look like a lame ford Tbird.
https://i4.ebayimg.com/01/i/04/3d/b5/7f_1_b.JPG
But most of the people here are too young to even remember the old T-birds, so they think they look cool.

Series 5 lights look FKN SICK!!!!! way better than the series 4 ones IMHO.....

and the lights that where posted of this 'old car' dont even look like series 5 lights!

and BTW .... I got an 86 with a steel t2 bonnett .... : )~

Being 27 i remember the mid eighties t-birds pleanty good enough.

I guess I would prefer the Tbird style tails to the lame 323 carryovers.

ah yeah... you were 10... I am sure you remember them well :rolleyes:

so, where can u get the t2 hood?

a friend of mine got an aluminum TII hood from a junkyard for $40. the guy thought it was a steel one. hehehe. start at junkyards, you'll probably find the best deals there

dont the s4 tails look sort of like camaro's of the same era though? ive had to take a few second glances at camaros from the back before, just to realize they are stupid camaros....

I'm pretty young considering mark can remember when the s5 came out but....


At first I loved the s5 tails
then later I liked the 10AE painted style after seeing a local guys who had a red car w/ painted red surrounds
then i got out of my 10AE stage and liked the s5's again.


now I have a s4 t2 that I love, and honestly I think it looks great in daytime and at night, the black surround and everything. But the reason I love my car other than being turbo is that its a white s4 and I think that the white/black looks badass, so this is just more white/black.

S5 tails are still cool, but I don't mind the s4's one bit, they look pretty good at night to boot

https://i4.ebayimg.com/02/i/04/48/0e/4b_1_b.JPG

Don't see that at all... color locations don't match, shape does not match... lights on do not match... not sure where you get that

https://i1.ebayimg.com/04/i/04/4c/a2/4d_1_b.JPG

Unlike the T board and S5 lights, where they both have a wide blank section at the bottom, they both have a rectangular reverse light next to the L plate, they both have 3 circles per side, they both flash the outside circle for turn indication... etc etc etc

the weight of my s4 alum t2 hood threw me off, i remembered how heavy my steel n/a hood was, but the aluminum t2 hood is still a little heavy. I had to open a friends steel n/a hood to be relieved. I was kinda pissed about that for a while

and yeah, alum hoods have rivets on some things and a magnet is another way to tell

bah, its not as similar as i thought. usually i just see the black surround and the black line in the middle with a bunch of other rectangles, that and the general shape of the car are enough to cause a double take. certainly you can say that they atleast resemble each other?

i still much prefer the S5 lights, even though the T-craps of the time suck and were ugly the RX7 make them look good.

about the similarities... at least you can say the colors are the same. hahaha

I like S5 lights, they're nice :) they just look more clean then the S4 ones do...

I have an aluminum hood on my TII, and I cry everytime I haven to open a friend's steel one :p:

If you're looking for a light aluminum hood without the scoop, check out the verts.

This is kinda off topic but sometimes when i see the 96-97+ ford taurus tails out of the corner of my eye i double take thinking its a FD.

hahaha, i've had that same problem. it makes me cringe once i realize what it is.

I agree as well, but the big key was that the FD came out first and Ford copied Mazda- rather than Mazda knocking off a Ford on those FD/taurus lights

damn u guyz r lucky... at a local junkyard here, i went lookin jus 2 see if they had anything for rx-7s... he said that there were no junkyards around that sell any rx-7 parts

taurii's even have fd shaped bumpers and trunklids kind of

this one i also agree with, ive had these pictures for like 4 months

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...aurus96-97.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ver_5_Rear.jpg

(Putting on flame suit) It's all the same company anyway. That's why newer Jaguars look like they were designed by Mazda.

No, not the same company. Mazda is it's own company, that primary shareholders are Ford and Bank of Sumitomo.

And Jags don't have any Mazda in them, but the Volvo 4 series are all just Mazda 3's (as is the European Focus).

:)I thought you'd speak out on that!:) As far as the Jag's, I wasn't talking about parts, I was talking about appearance. Newer Jag's serously bear a family resemblance to Mazdas. I'm sure that just says alot about Mazda'z design team.

Yeah, I understand Mazda's design team did the Contour as well... Mazda consistently has had some of the best design teams in the world. Their designs tend to hold the styling for a long time, unlike many Japanese manufactures who's designs look dated after two years. Nissan and Honda are prime examples of that dated after two year look. There is not one Nissan made that looks even halfway contemporary 10 years later.

yet with minimal style changes (fenders-lights-bumpers-etc), Mazda could re-release the FC or FD and have it look contemporay (infact with the cutting edge look coming back in over the last couple years, probably more so for the FC).

A friend of mine owned an 83 t-bird we used to call the thunder chicken. A car I actually worked on. Owned it in high school the same time I had an 87 base FC. You do realize cars are around for a few years after they are made right? Check the angle of your shnozzz my friend.

Besides rounds were what was intended early in the design process for the 2nd gen. ;)

No, only the american team wanted rounds, the Japanese teams all wanted something that was consitent with the RX-7, rather than backwards to the early RX cars.

Funny, I thought this thread was about TII hoods...:bigthumb:

Haven't read page 2 or 3 of this thread, but if nobody else has told you this then here it is.

Take a magnet with you to the junkyard.


Magnet sticks to the hood, it's steel, magnet doesn't stick, it's aluminum.

It's that easy.