Hood Shocks - Modification

[motomille]

I'm wanting and wondering if anyone out there has done a modification to put hood shocks on the 2002 hood instead of the bars that never work well with the stock set up? Back in the day Neuspeed did a mod for the early MKIII GTI adding a hood shock(s) for a hood that never had them. Perhaps I just answered my own question and try those out.

[Colin]

It can be done but the torsion bar works pretty well still. Are you going to carbon fiber?

[BarryA]

lids over the years (may go to hood struts on the 79 Datsun pick up, too) - the keys to making a custom installation work successfully are to get the geometry right and to not use too strong a strut - if the strut's too strong, odds are that sooner or later you'll wind up bending the lid from having to use too much force to close it.

[powelli]

Take a look at his thread. Pinepig shares his approach.

http://www.bmw2002faq.com/component/option,com_forum/Itemid,50/page,viewtopic/t,311152/highlight,/

[02again]

now that its been a few months .....I wonder if Pinepig is still happy with the install.? Too stiff? not too stiff?

[jgerock]

I'm sure it can be done correctly if the geometry and strut length is "engineered".

I replaced the horrible front hood springs with gas struts on my VW and have seen a good article in Hot VW's for doing the Karmann Ghia rear decklid (they replace the center-mounted spring behind the fan shroud).