Strongest capacity hood struts?

[Chris Pomares]

Yes. Those are from Elephant Racing.

[myflat6]

I moved away from the Rennline strut due to potential damage concerns already discussed. I went with the carbon fiber pole that John Audette listed in this thread. I would like something like this to prop open my aluminum decklid. Here are a couple photos of my car with this product installed. My car is a hotrod, so I like this concept for my car. I will say that the hood is fairly heavy when holding open without the traditional struts - particularly when I hold my hood open to plug in my battery tender (without using the pole to support the hood while I plug in). No drilling required to install this pole.

[Chris Pomares]

I suppose if the hood got bent, that would be an excuse to go with an Aluminum, fiberglass, or carbon with stock struts. Setbacks create opportunities.
If my 616 engine had not needed a rebuild, I would never have experienced the POLO.

[myflat6]

After being happy with the TI Porsche Products carbon fiber prop rod/pole for the front hood, I purchased the same product to replace the Rennline strut on my aluminum Decklid. No more worrying about a damaged/bent decklid. Two other advantages to this pole — it opens the decklid much further and it is less than half the weight of the Rennline strut.

Here is a photo showing how far the Rennline strut held the decklid open



Here is a photo showing how much further the prop rod holds the decklid open



Couple photos showing the product

[sithot]

More than one 356 hood was bent by someone not paying attention OR not know how the mechanism works. (I even heard of a judge doing it)
I'd never use a mechanical hood strut. I'd rather use a cut down broom handle.


Another thread.

https://www.early911sregistry.org/fo...=1#post1174266

[lbpa18]

Long ago our 356 hood was bent by a gas station attendant trying to help my mom when she was gassing up. Clearly good intent but lack of knowledge of the type. I think if I was going to add a rod, I would color it impossible to miss by someone not familiar. Most gas struts are black. Seeing a carbon rod, why wouldn't an unfamiliar person assume it isn't one of those collapsible gas struts, even though to anyone with a brain it isnt? A broom handle is likely to be obvious. A barber pole painted carbon rod would probably be more obvious too, though it wouldnt add anything to the looks of the respective compartment. Id even consider a small orange flag on it, just something to highlight to that well-intentioned person that the rod needs to be removed first.

[62S-R-S]

The trunk lid is more difficult, yet the engine lid is on the small side : and whether torsion rods could have performed well without being too obtrusive, extended across the sound pad. Done by Porsche in a tidy manner seems possible, as they were no strangers to torsion.

[sithot]

The trunk lid is more difficult, yet the engine lid is on the small side : and whether torsion rods could have performed well without being too obtrusive, extended across the sound pad. Done by Porsche in a tidy manner seems possible, as they were no strangers to torsion.

The 914 for sure.

[62S-R-S]

The trunk lid on these were perhaps 9x the weight of a 911 engine lid. Bmw used struts on the front, but went with torsion at the rear.

Latch and how well it worked, one of the best parts of owning it.