On the other hand, if your talking taking out the entire under structure, and essentially leaving the edges and top skin, i say no---only from experience do i say that. It becomes a big flopping piece of metal, and i hacked up a few trying different things with them. The best solution but most time consuming one i came up with is various sized hole saws. Cutting out just in the area of a scoop is fine however. Oh, and when i did gut the entire bracing out from my Darts hood, i was suprised to see how light the bracing really was---i think the outer skin actually weighed more.