Steel hood or fiberglass?

[duffbeerisgood]

My Scrambler build is kinda a Frankenstein between two projects, a CJ7 I built in high school and a 8 I bought recently. So I have a lot of duplicate parts and I want use the better stuff on the scrambler.

The 8 came with a fiberglass hood but the rest is all steel. The aluminum hood is lighter and in decent shape however my gut tells me to go with the steel hood. Any advantages I am missing with the fiberglass hood?

 

[Kane]

All personal preference really. I have had both and the fiberglass hood like identical in every way when it was lowered. In general the metal hood never seems to rust so even if you live in the north like me they are fine.

 

[Spieg]

Do you get much hail where you live?

 

[gr8dain]

My whole body is glass. Would I have prefered steel? Yes. But all of the Scramblers in my price range in 2010 were rust buckets and I have not done much body work. And since I daily drive mine (or did) I was OK with the glass. The hood functions perfectly. And most people don’t know until it is open.