Fiberglass hood reapair

So the wife had a small goat run out in front of her mustang at about 50mph the other day and it did some damage. Busted headlights,busted headlight header panel, trashed DS fender and a cracked cobra hood.

So my question is whats the best repair on the cobra hood, there is a long crack about 12 inches long along the front lip and a crack on the underside bracing. The way i see it i can either do a v cut into the hood along the crack and use resin and chopped mat or i could do the v cut and use a product like kitty hair/dynahair to fill the void.

What do you guys think?

Kitty Hair is tough, mat and resin is tougher. Remember though, there's no strength at all in the resin alone. Don't just chop up a few strands of mat and sprinkle it over the resin and push it around. Cut the mat in thin strips, soak it and poke it into the "V" cut nice and deep, then do it some more, then lay some mat on the underside as well. Better to sand the cured resin/mat layer down than build it up with filler (again, no strength in the filler either) afterwards.

Luck,

TC

I'd take it to a Corvette body shop and have them do it. Badly done fibreglass repairs looks awful.

I ran into a (dead) cow that fell off the back of a truck in front of me once (thankfully it was a calf) in my Jensen CV-8, also a fibreglass bodied car and managed to patch it, but not much damage was done. I thought of tossing the carcass in the trunk and heading home, but unfortunately I'd just crossed the border on my way to California, so no beef for me!