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All of my Sled City hoods are lift offs. I make race car hoods and when you get into the hingable fiberglass hoods, how much weight are you really loosing? 5-7 pounds and spending triple $$$ on the hingable unit? When you use a lift off hood, you don't need the hinges or any of the latching system.



But GLASSer .. you don't have to have that entire structure underneath to make it a HINGE TYPE hood. I did many that were IN FACT "duzed"(sp) onto the hinge for EZ remooval if needed. A bit of a PITA to build .. but worth it in the end for the customer.

The weight penalty was maybe 3-4 pounds and the cost ... triple the cost of a lift-off hood in the cases you have seen ? ... IIRC ... maybe 80$ or so ...