Miata Mailing List: January 1999, Message #451

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At 01:57 AM -0800 1/4/99, pt wrote:
>In all honesty, I installed one but I'd say you should reconsider
>doing same.  Because it makes your hood not close flush / line up.
>This makes the car look like it's been wrecked.  Some say when the
>strut wears out it will relax it's push on the hood but that might be
>years from now?  I'm thinking of drilling the strut to blow it out,
>then use one of those manual strut locks to hold the hood up.  But I
>don't drive the car much anyways so...


PT,  No offense but you purchased the wrong hood strut.  The one from PBC
(Performance Buyer's Club) does NOT make your hood bulge.  Jeff Anderson
(the designer/maker of the PBC version) picked a strut with just barely the
right amount of tension to hold the hood up.  A good breeze can push the
hood closed.  (Don't even try to hang a trouble light on the hood with the
PBC strut in place.)  BUT... no annoying hood bulges!  Plus, Jeff's design
bolts right in using existing holes!!

Mark Booth
1992 "B" Classic Red
Team Voodoo Titanium!
Membership Dude
San Diego Miata Club
[http://www.SanDiegoMiataClub.org]