Hack Your Hood Ornament

Step 5 Adapt the trophy-figure base to the top of the hood fitting.

Obviously, the base of the trophy and the top of the hood fitting aren't matched. On mine, the trophy base is round and ~2" across; the hood fitting is rectangular and smaller. I needed some way to fit the two together so that the figure had a stable base that could deal with vibration and wind on the road. To solve this problem, I used a silicone adhesive to fill in the hollow base of the trophy and essentially mold it to the hood fitting. It's waterproof and flexible, and seems to work well enough so far.

I filled in the base of the trophy figure with silicone adhesive, then slipped the base screw through the hole in the hood fitting, pressed the two pieces together, fixed them in place so that the figure would stand vertical when on the hood, and let the two pieces dry together. This took a day to dry, and probably could have used another 24-48 hours to fully cure. As it was, the hood fitting peeled off, leaving a matching mold on the base of the figure. Not bad.