That's a cool mod! Is it something you fabricated or a kit you purchased?

That's a cool mod! Is it something you fabricated or a kit you purchased?

Just built it out of parts from Princess Auto. It’s been done a few times before and I just copied others.

This will work! Now to do the other side...

I will clean up the chassis area a bit more before welding in the brackets. Then I will spray body colour in the chassis area and powder coat the hinges in a satin black. 

Satin black looks awesome on these. Keeps them hidden behind the grill. 

Edited December 20, 20186 yr by wheee!

And because I’m a focused individual... squirrel!....

where was I? Oh yeah, port matching the throttle body to the intake!

A sharp blade to trace the wider opening on the throttle body  

This is a significant amount of extra air!!

Then overlay the gasket on the intake manifold for tracing

All that’s left is the grinding...!

You are gonna use the hood hinge torsion bars also? Will they clear the gas struts?

You are gonna use the hood hinge torsion bars also? Will they clear the gas struts?

No. The torsion bars will not be re-used. I will keep the mounts on the hinges for them just in case, but I don’t plan on using them. Just didn’t feel right cutting them off.

I've had my hood shocks working for a couple of years now and I wish I had included some kind of adjustment mechanism to just trim them up a bit, one side has a bit of slack. It's nothing really but I notice it.

Maybe new shocks....?

5 hours ago, wheee! said:

port matching the throttle body to the intake!

This is a significant amount of extra air!!

Well to be clear... It's a significant amount of extra area.  It'll only be a significant amount of extra air if the rest of the system will pull it.  

Edited December 21, 20186 yr by Captain Obvious

Well to be clear... It's a significant amount of extra area.  It'll only be a significant amount of extra air if the rest of the system will pull it.   [emoji185]

True. However with a larger displacement of 3100cc, and better exhaust flow through 2.5” headers and tailpipe, I expect that the engine should use most of this new ‘area’ effectively!

11 hours ago, wheee! said:

Maybe new shocks....?

The shocks are new, I guess what I'm suggesting if you are interested is attaching the lower pivot points on some kind of a slider that can be clamped down with a bolt so you can trim the position if needed.