Hi all,
I was thinking about molding the plastic insert of the hood scoop on a 99-02 4runner sport style hood to the hood itself with bondo, to make the transition seamless and smooth. Has anyone ever done this on yotatech? I am in the process of putting a new hood on anyway, so I figured now would be the time to do it. Is this a bad idea because of it being metal to plastic? Would heat expansion/contraction cause it to crack anyway? I've satoshi'd my truck and done some interior fiberglassing for gauges, but other than that I haven't had too much experience with bondo or 'glass. What are it's (bondos) limitations?

If it takes about as much work as the satoshi then I'm totally up for it, but if it won't look decent or it doesn't last then I'll scrap the idea.

Thanks for any input

 

id say your just looking for trouble, once moisture gets in it might pop off. if you can bolt it down some how and then bondo as a filler for a nice finish it will be much better!

 

Pretty sure those are steel hood scoops. Meaning the best thing to do is graft them on Via welding. Then use the bondo to get it to seamless.
Any good body shop can do this and most likely make it look factoy

 

It would still be bolted in like normal, just have some bondo on the seam to hide it. I could bolt it in, then put some fiberglass on the back to make it even stronger, then put some bondo on top.

And it's definitely plastic, or at least mine is (which is oem). I've cut into the back of mine to make it semifunctional and its some sort of tough, plastic type material. Edit: I'm only talking about the piece that goes into the metal hood. Most of the scoop is metal b/c its part of the hood, but for some reason Toyota chose to make it two pieces and there is a plastic insert to finish off the look.

 

Post some pics.

 

So the seam around the scoop, bondo'd to look totaly smooth like the rest of the hood.

 

I see where you're coming from...while making the hood look like a solid piece, you might have issues with bondo cracking with movement, heat..maybe not. I would stabilize the underside of the insert more thru bolts or maybe even jb weld...one piece idea seems promising..