Check it out! New hood pads

Here's the side by side. Mine and original both new. Better than the vacuum seal looking rubber things I've see in my opinion. Haha I'm dying over the hole punch rental comment haha. There has to be a way to get the indentation and 9th hole. I'm a little scared to start trying it though. It is definitely a heat and press and impregnated adhesive or something like that.

I have been talking to licensed vendors and am working on getting something going.

I also found a dealer who was able to lower mg overall cost which eta passed on of course.

Enjoy
 

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getchasum said:
I know it cost to run any board and I’m not flaming you Charlie or the board by any means. Just thinking how do we encourage innovation for these cars that we so love….

Fact of the matter remains, requiring a small back yard guy that has never had any experience selling a product to pay their dues in order to sell one item they came up with on any web site is hurting all of us. It actually hurts a free exchange of information and ideals. I’m not saying this is true for the vendor that is trying to sneak in and fly under the radar to dodge dues, they need to be booted. This community is small enough, the last thing we should do is discourage people from posting new parts & new ideals for sale. A lot of people making these parts aren't making a living at it and don't have deep pockets to sustain advertising the way a vendor doing it full time does. Requiring these back yard innovators to pay to play just keeps their new products off of our computer screen, out of our hands and off our cars where we never hear about them.

I don’t know what the answer is but…

Maybe an ideal to have an “Innovation of Products Section” on the board and allow the backyard guy to show something off for 1-6 months or so at an enter level cost of advertising by the month, then make a decision as to whether his ideal is profitable or not to continue on. Seems like that would help encourage innovation to continue for these out dated dinosaurs to live on by the person just tinkering around in the garage.

Again not slamming anybody or the board, just got to thinking how do we encourage new backyard innovation to come to market rather than snuff it out?
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Which is all true.
And the rules if you will - are to say the least - a bit inconsistent and unevenly enforced.

For instance - is a group buy of a certain dash upgrade package that contains at least 5 pages of thread bandwidth - a vendor? - or someone just helping the cause?
And I have no doubt it helps the cause.
But in the end, in addition to the altruistic intentions, there is a profit motive.
I'm sure someone and some company is making money from the ability to basically advertise for free to a very specifically targeted market on this board
Again - the making money part - is as it should be as that is how our capitalistic society in the USA works.
And I'm all for it. It has made millionaires of everyday people. But it's not right for a individual and unrelated for profit enterprises be able to benefit financially from what is essentially free advertising.

Small as this group might be - that user demographic data - is gold in the internet world.
That's why Twitter is market capped at 20 Billion - not because they make any money - but because they they can tell advertisers the age and sex of a person likes brown, fur lined glove gloves, on Jan 12th, in Syracuse, NY.

And lets face it - since their is no member user subscription fee - the business model must be one of advertising based.
Like most of the interweb.

The rules of the road I thought were actually defined and pretty simple.
If you had a creation - you posted it in the "How To" sections - with the caveat of NO Solicitation
To sell more than one - be a vendor or bust.

But I have no dog in this fight, and am happy with whatever - since I do more of the buying and less of the selling.
 
GNONYX said:
Better yet, how about everyone take your present hood pad picture, and post them on board so we all can compare them.
As I mention before I purchased mine many years ago from a dealer for future keeping, until the IC hose blew off and damaged the original nine holes hood pad. As you can see nothing is perfect, but close enough to look as original from OEM eight holes.
Mine is the close up one as the further away one is the new comer.
In fact the new comer looks better then what I have right now
Please let me know how much and when the new hood pads are available
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So - to my aged eyes - it appears that the new "Power6" logo has been put on a diet and grown a bit.
i.e. It's a little skinnier and less rotund than the original.
 
Heisenberg said:
So - to my aged eyes - it appears that the new "Power6" logo has been put on a diet and grown a bit.
i.e. It's a little skinnier and less rotund than the original.
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maybe because the closer one looks bigger and the distance looks smaller, or then again maybe using the driving glasses instead of the reading glasses.
Or better yet another keg of beers will solve all of our eyes vision:wacky:
 
87we410877 said:
Here's the side by side. Mine and original both new. Better than the vacuum seal looking rubber things I've see in my opinion. Haha I'm dying over the hole punch rental comment haha. There has to be a way to get the indentation and 9th hole. I'm a little scared to start trying it though. It is definitely a heat and press and impregnated adhesive or something like that.

I have been talking to licensed vendors and am working on getting something going.

I also found a dealer who was able to lower mg overall cost which eta passed on of course.

Enjoy
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Your's looks great, you would be hard pressed to tell it wasn't OEM , because you couldn't get them close enough together once it was installed on the car ! Looking forward to seeing these on one of our vendors web sites. Sam
 
Ok i tried about 4 vendors and only Highway stars has a license. They haven't responded to my several e-mails with anything more than "someone will call you". So, i need more suggestions. I have 8 of these left and am not going to do another run unless i can hook up with a vendor with a license. Its a LOT of money to lay out.
 
I have an idea...maybe not a very good one....if you can't find a vendor to sell them thru, maybe you could have your "screen print guy" travel with you to car shows, Bowling Green, Kirban's open house, etc. and provide the service on site? Your customer could buy his own pad and either bring it to you in his trunk (yes they fit in the trunk) or he could install it on his hood and uninstall it for the "operation", then reinstall it. Kind of like Razor installing alky kits at Bowling Green, or AVC installing their GNX dashes at Kirban's Open House back in the day.
 
hiboom said:
I guess you never have heard of a heat gun and spray tack adhesive I'll do that before i'll pay 500.00
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Let me know how that turns out. I can hold a map gas torch up to my logo with no impact. And, its not $500. On ebay close to it because of the sodomizing in fees.
 
GNRick said:
I have an idea...maybe not a very good one....if you can't find a vendor to sell them thru, maybe you could have your "screen print guy" travel with you to car shows, Bowling Green, Kirban's open house, etc. and provide the service on site? Your customer could buy his own pad and either bring it to you in his trunk (yes they fit in the trunk) or he could install it on his hood and uninstall it for the "operation", then reinstall it. Kind of like Razor installing alky kits at Bowling Green, or AVC installing their GNX dashes at Kirban's Open House back in the day.
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Way too small of a market for him and i am a fraction of a fraction of a percent of his work. Not a bad plan though for other means, such as the alky for instance.
 
87we410877 said:
Ok i tried about 4 vendors and only Highway stars has a license. They haven't responded to my several e-mails with anything more than "someone will call you".
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Have you been to their web sight ? It seems everyone is sick with the flue and you can't even buy anything right now !! Give them a chance to get back on their feet and try again. Good luck
 
87we410877 said:
Let me know how that turns out. I can hold a map gas torch up to my logo with no impact. And, its not $500. On ebay close to it because of the sodomizing in fees.
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I'm not on here to get into a pissing match with you .good luck with your sells it is a nice looking hood pad my hood is down and car going fast so the pad not that important to me if I showed the car it would be a must have item.my curent pad is in good driver condition
 
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