Removing hood sticks.

[Gingerbread Man]

Hello folks.

I've long since sold my original Caterham hood and use a half hood when the weather calls for it. I'm thinking of doing the odd bit of work on the car and also I'm doing a eBay 'get rid of unwanted items' sale. Can you remove the hood sticks and run the same boot cover, or does it start to look a bit silly?

I've heard that you can get different boot covers as not all of the cars come with hood sticks, but I guess in doing this I'll loose an inch of height in the boot? Sounds silly but I use my boot!

[Classic Grad 98]

I didn't remove mine because the boot cover went all saggy

[Cock Womble 7]

Classic Grad 98 said:

I didn't remove mine because the boot cover went all saggy

Really? My boot cover is quite taut and I couldn't see that removing the sticks would make a blind bit of difference - it's not as if they stand proud and hold the cover up.

Ginge - try it and see.

[Gingerbread Man]

Cock Womble 7 said:

Really? My boot cover is quite taut and I couldn't see that removing the sticks would make a blind bit of difference - it's not as if they stand proud and hold the cover up.

Ginge - try it and see.

Think I'll have to, just hoped that someone who'd joined the areo screen fold, just a minute CW7...I've got an idea.

[Tango7]

Try using foam pipe insulation slit on one side to help pack the boot cover up (and next to no weight penalty ). You only need the thin 1" stuff

[Tango7]

Cock Womble 7 said:

it's not as if they stand proud and hold the cover up.

They do hold the edge of the cover up as they rest on the top of the chassis rail/boot panel and the boot cover is pulled taut over them.

[Smollet]

SBFS do a boot cover that is designed for life after the removal of hood sticks.
http://www.softbitsshop.co.uk/the-boot-cover-58-p....

[cambuscat]

I fitted another row of poppers and don't think it looks too bad.

David

[cambuscat]

I fitted another row of poppers and don't think it looks too bad.

David