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To the owner of the blue AU Forte/Futura (can't remember which) with the Jim Mock sticker on the rear windscreen that I cruised past a couple of times (you didn't appear to have cruise control - or you weren't using it) on the way home from Summernats/my folks place - on your second 'fly by' you had smoke belching from your exhaust, so you're either running a bit rich or something else is amiss. After I cruised passed for the third time, I didn't see you again so hopefully you got home safely as well.
cheers Mark PS. The fly bys were a bit try-hard.
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09-01-2006, 11:44 PM | #2 | ||
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: 3 times is a charm, maybe he was trying to check out the vents... they do look hot.
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10-01-2006, 08:19 AM | #3 | ||
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Hey, in respect to the vents are they stuck on with holes cut out underneath them eg are they functional or for looks.
I've wanted to have these put on my bonnet for ages. They look good.
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10-01-2006, 01:31 PM | #4 | ||
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Fully functional. It might be the "have mod, must make a difference" syndrome, but the temp needle does seem to sit slightly lower than it did previously. I can hear more noises under the bonnet though. I did think rain/car washing would be copious amounts of water would enter through the vents, but after some heavy rain (whilst it's parked) and a few car washes, not as much as I thought seems to get through.
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10-01-2006, 01:34 PM | #5 | ||
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What did you do about the sound proofing? Can you take a pic of it as I'm curious to see how they did it.. Just chop holes in it or did it another way?
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10-01-2006, 01:47 PM | #6 | ||
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No sound proofing - GT's don't have it, so I guess it's not completely necessary.
They tried to minimise the amount of choppage they had to do. Each vents had four threaded 'posts' they drilled holes into bonnet for. Each vent had one of those that went into the bonnet structural parts. Then they cut squarish holes to accept the recessed, meshed vented part. Underneath doesn't look 'factory' like the EF/EL XR6s, so I'm wondering how best to do that - need to have a chat with them when I take the wing back to get a bit of a fix up (some 'filler' shrunk a bit, which they knew about when I first picked it up, but they said to give it a few more weeks to settle in...) Wish I could get better under-bonnet pics of the gold Xplode XR8 to see what they did...
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10-01-2006, 01:51 PM | #7 | ||
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thanks for that, was curious. Did the car have soundproofing under the bonnet originally?
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10-01-2006, 02:48 PM | #8 | ||
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Yep, it did.
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I do have a couple more of the out side of the car, let me know if you need them scanned in. Cheers Tim |
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My bonnet got hacked to put them in, but you can't tell from outside, just going to put a new bonnet liner on and cut some neat holes in that. |
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11-01-2006, 09:52 AM | #11 | ||
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Ok, so the Xplode Falcon was a show pony with a sweet Herrod engine...
I want to fabricate some sort of srround that still allows airflow but hides the mounting posts, etc... Not too worried about the liner as the flexible pipe join for the air intake pipe was chewing it up at the back anyway...
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