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Re: Ordered my hood from WS Fiberglass
[Re: flatiron]
#538468
11/27/09 09:12 PM
11/27/09 09:12 PM
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Joined: Dec 2007
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BROOK PARK, OH
WILD BILL
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Senior Member of the Junior Dragster Club
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BROOK PARK, OH
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I've been very happy with the hood and decklid they made for my car. 
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Re: Ordered my hood from WS Fiberglass
[Re: flatiron]
#538470
11/27/09 09:21 PM
11/27/09 09:21 PM
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Anonymous
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I went on a road trip today to WS Fiberglass and ordered my Cowl hood today $420.00 Looking around his shop sure looks like he puts out some awful nice products and I have yet to hear a negative comment about them.
ain't they out of texas?thats a long road trip. 
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Re: Ordered my hood from WS Fiberglass
#538471
11/27/09 09:36 PM
11/27/09 09:36 PM
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Tallmadge, Ohio
Butch
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Tallmadge, Ohio
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I'm happy with my '65 Belvedere and molded scoop hood. It took 3 months to get it. Quality piece.
Butch
'74 Duster 440
'04 Hemi Quad Cab Ram
'06 Pacifica
'78 MGB
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Re: Ordered my hood from WS Fiberglass
#538472
11/27/09 09:40 PM
11/27/09 09:40 PM
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Joined: Dec 2007
Posts: 10,542
BROOK PARK, OH
WILD BILL
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BROOK PARK, OH
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I went on a road trip today to WS Fiberglass and ordered my Cowl hood today $420.00 Looking around his shop sure looks like he puts out some awful nice products and I have yet to hear a negative comment about them.
ain't they out of texas?thats a long road trip.
Nope, their in Ashtabula Oh. 
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Re: Ordered my hood from WS Fiberglass
[Re: Al_Alguire]
#538476
11/28/09 02:44 AM
11/28/09 02:44 AM
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Rogue River, OR
Jeremiah
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I bought a scoop from WS...waited for months after I paid up front. It showed up unannounced after I begged them to call me when it shipped. We opened it up, took one look at it sitting on the hood of my car and proceeded to toss it in the dumpster out back of the shop. To this day I can usually tell a WO/RO23 'glass hoodscoop from WS because they all have the same characteristics of crappy-ness. If they would send me a new, decent scoop at no charge I'd stop holding a grudge but at the time I was just getting rolling in life and still had to budget for little stuff. It would have taken one 1/4" of filler in spots to make that scoop right! Open challenge to WS: Send me a decent quality scoop to make screwing me over right. 
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Re: Ordered my hood from WS Fiberglass
[Re: Al_Alguire]
#538480
11/28/09 11:44 AM
11/28/09 11:44 AM
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Florida STAYcation
dOrk !
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The village idiot's idiot
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One pass and here is what I got for my almost $800. I fixed it up correctly and once we got done putting it back together and making it fit correctly it looked nice 
The way that scoop was mounted was flat-out WRONG. It should have been glassed-in from the bottom.
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Re: Ordered my hood from WS Fiberglass
[Re: dOrk !]
#538481
11/28/09 12:15 PM
11/28/09 12:15 PM
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Las Vegas
Al_Alguire
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Las Vegas
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It was when we got done. What you see there is as it arrived, also unannounced so when the truck showed it was a total surprise with COD for shipping BTW. We did it right but took 20+ hours of work to make it right. never again woudl I deal with those guys. The scoop looked like it was held on with that gap filler foam crap for your home.
We were pressed for time so we installed it and went to the track that night. Installed the 10 dzus buttons and off we went. At about 900' mark the scoop went airborn, followed by the hood from the air pressure I guess. Car was not all that fast as it's best was 9.02 at 149.
"I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know."
"It's never wrong to do the right thing"
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Re: Ordered my hood from WS Fiberglass
[Re: flatiron]
#538483
11/28/09 12:41 PM
11/28/09 12:41 PM
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Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.
PUNK
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Well...on a positive note, there are a couple of guys happy with them and I really hope that you are the recipient of a good product as well. But when the topics of fiberglass comes up on this forum, WS never gets a positive nod. My friend ordered a hood and bumper for his 66 Satellite and it was nothing more than an expensive Potatoe chip. It was horrible. The parts were so bad that three different body shops wanted more money to fix them than what he paid. I would not recommend them to anybody because of that experiance.. Maybe they have changed, different owners, operators, employees fo the better and maybe you will get a nice piece. Wish you luck. 
10.53 @ 125mph. 1.37 60 foot. Caltracs and Monoleafs, AFCO shocks.
Heads by INDIO MOTOR MACHINE; IMM.
CP Pistons, PC Carbs.
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Re: Ordered my hood from WS Fiberglass
[Re: Al_Alguire]
#538486
11/28/09 01:44 PM
11/28/09 01:44 PM
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Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 12,120
City of Champions
Prostock
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I Live Here
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City of Champions
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It was when we got done. What you see there is as it arrived, also unannounced so when the truck showed it was a total surprise with COD for shipping BTW. We did it right but took 20+ hours of work to make it right. never again woudl I deal with those guys. The scoop looked like it was held on with that gap filler foam crap for your home.
We were pressed for time so we installed it and went to the track that night. Installed the 10 dzus buttons and off we went. At about 900' mark the scoop went airborn, followed by the hood from the air pressure I guess. Car was not all that fast as it's best was 9.02 at 149.
First time at the track I had to duct tape the front of mine down. On my first pass with it on, right around the 1000 foot mark the hood bent up in the center and left about a 1 inch gap between the hood and fender.
Adding two more pins in the center solved the problem.
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, and for the nth time, they were the only maker for my hood, I ordered 4, took 4? months, needed work as the mold I assume was from a former scopped hood, and mine was a flat hood. They will likely always be very low on my list of fiberglass vendors. 
