Monkey Bodywork

So cruised over to Fab’s to help him work some more on his smushed hood. He had an altercation with a Jeep spare tire which unfortunately crinkled his aluminum hood. Fortunately the damage didn’t go too much further than that, top radiator support crossmember got bent and some plastic clips for his grill broke. But with the center of the hood smashed down, the outer corners were turned up. Fabio reported that at speed they would start flapping, trying to make like an ornithopter. He’d already attempted to bend them down as well as he could by himself, but we figured two monkeys are better than one! Initially went at it with a block of wood across the radiator support, but then figured that was flexing too much. We then McGyvered this setup.

This definitely helped, and the additional hands and body did manage to get the hood bent down more. We did eventually reach a point of diminishing returns, at which point we resorted to more drastic angry chimp techniques. This was about as good as we were going to get. You’ll have to ask Fabio how bad the flapping is at bwoop speed now, but it was amusing work.