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Jon, I see you are running hood pins. Any pics for reference? I have some I'm going to install but the steel hood doesn't give me many options. Looking for inspiration.
I'll send you pin pictures tomorrow. Based on prior experience with pinned fiberglass hoods, I have extra layers of fiberglass added to the rear hood points because of the wear on those points standing the hood when it's off the car. Some guys use an easel to hold the hood off the car. I usually just put it on the roof. An advantage of a 4 pin hood mounting is ease of access compared to rear hinge. However the weight of a metal hood would make this a two person removal/install process. At the track being able to do it by myself is a real advantage.
On my 944 Super Cup car I have the newer flat latch pins installed. I'll send send pictures of them as well.
V2 those pipes are 3". The intake manifold is a Lindsey that has been modified to 3" with a Ford throttle body. The above picture is of a street car with a Lindsey Stage 2 intercooler.
Yes, of course I'd prefer synthetic material for the weight savings, but the problem is cost to ship from the states. I'm trying to pay off my house & not spend tremendous amounts of money on the car.
But errors like this suck. First the $35 paint stripper didn't work effectively at all. Just made a mess, so I scraped the old bondo & paint/primer off with a scraper & electric heat gun which takes forever.
I have $200 in steel louvers.
To be fair, I knew it was a risk (with the potential to fail).
The good news is I can hopefully salvage the louvers to some degree & the hood was free.... but of course I wasted a lot of time. and welding supplies.
No ones fault but mine. Yes it looks industrial "mad max" kind of bad ***, but that isn't where I wanna go with this project.
-Got some sick satisfaction cutting those out for future use, then promptly threw the hood out. Up yours! I'm done with doing things the hard way. I always seem to think it's better for some reason. Idealist thoughts perhaps.
Then cleaning the garage from all the welding slag & grinder dust. I hate that smell... could never be a welder.
Well to power my car I'm going boosted the easy way. And for hood louvers I'm going the easy way. That's how it's going to be bitches.
-Got some sick satisfaction cutting those out for future use, then promptly threw the hood out. Up yours! I'm done with doing things the hard way. I always seem to think it's better for some reason. Idealist thoughts perhaps.
Then cleaning the garage from all the welding slag & grinder dust. I hate that smell... could never be a welder.
Well to power my car I'm going boosted the easy way. And for hood louvers I'm going the easy way. That's how it's going to be bitches.
That's the spirit !
It's a common occurrence for car enthusiasts to dabble and try doing things themselves, unyet sometimes as we've seen on here it's often the most long winded, expensive, and stressful thing to do sometimes and I've also done both. (Faffed for hours on something and then ditched it ! and also bit the bullet and payed what seems like a high price)
but I do think the more it happens the wiser you get...
And I would say this, but the money I've spent on the 2.7 lightweight may of seen excessive on several components, but it isn't when it does what you wanted and even better if it outperforms your expectations ! Then it seems good value.
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