Since my last update where I posted pictures of the Gila wart, the comments, have been mostly supportive with the exception of a few thinking that it looks like a bent up 8 x 8 cake pan. ( Including me.)
Despite that, the words used by those that liked it were all "themed" around the same general meaning. Words like "subtle", "subdue'd", "blended in", even "invisible" have been used to describe the thing.
When I went down in the garage the next time, I asked the Monster what he thought about having a part on his body considered "invisible"....
The Monster didn't take kindly to that, and threatened to never start again, if I left the wart in place.
Well alrighty then.
So, in order to keep things all warm and fuzzy, (Cause it's dangerous to piss off a venomous ninja lizard) I came up w/ a plan B.
Several hours later, I managed to rough up this jig-jaggy menagerie that I was gonna call the Gila fins. The problem w/ the G-fins were that they did nothing to add any clearance under the hood. The original version of the G fins, (yeah,...there were two) was too high,..so I stepped on them in order to "flatten" them out.
And promptly bent them all to hell.
Clearly, It was time to climb the mountain, and talk to the Dali Lama so I could find some peace, get some direction, and get back on track.
I found the D.L., and for 15 minutes non-stop, told him my dillemma. He listened intently, and when he spoke, all he had to say was:
Goonga, Goonga, Kanoonga.
Goonga, Goonga, Kanoonga.
Then he started to walk away.
So I went after him and said "Hey Dali!,....After traveling all this way, climbing this mountain, all while braving sub-zero temperatures, You got nothing for me? No advice, no words of wisdom, not even some little tip to help get me over this hump?"
He stopped, and turned to me and said: "Oh there'll be no tip. But when you die, on your death bed, you'll receive total... consciousness."
So I got that going for me,......Which is nice.
When I got back from Tibet, I went back into the garage.
I needed to remember that I do have a template, and I do kinda have a factory model ( a Ford version) to work off of.
The 66 Mercury Comet Cyclone.
That hood scoop looked like something I might be able to do.
So again, I set about the task. That would make this "Plan D".
This is the path of no return. I have cut the hood to accomodate, and welded this version in place. So this has to be it.
The front of the thing will have a grille mesh, and the openening is directly above the alternator, which is slightly in front of the cold side charge tube coming off of the compressor. The good thing is that it functions. Any water that gets in (and that would be rare) wouldn't be on top of any of the hot parts of the turbo system, so I think I've gotta winner here.
Then there's this:
Rust through over the hood bracing at the rear of the hood. I've never had a Fairmont that rusted here, but that is neither here nor there.
I'm thinkin' that now that I have air coming in, I'll cut out the rust back there and make a couple of grilles that will allow hot air to get back out.
First I gotta go check with the Monster to see what he thinks about that though.:nuts: