So.....back to C²/T².
And in the spirit of the above status, im upgradin' And updating.
This is what I've come up with in an attempt to transfer the cut out holes from the one hood to the other.
It requires a certain.....leap of faith. Obviously, one side done, I did the transfer from the other side this morning. I'll cut it out at lunch when I go home.
Upon closer inspection, the old hood is gonna need some work. The bodywork has lifted around the perimeter of the passenger side scoop due to the heat coming off of the turbo. Especially aggrevated by the fact that i forgot to put the turbo blanket on the thing one night.
The current hood scoop will not stay together.In order to get it to match my hood contour, I had to cut it pretty radically. I ended up grinding the mount lugs off the front. Its an abs scoop, and No glue that ive found will hold the mount studs after heat, and wind do their work. Im thinking its gonna end up in the same place that the OG monster engine did.
I've got a hood insulation blanket coming for the underside, so the heat thing is somewhat dealt with, but even then, using this hood where the crown that doesn't match the driver side fenderline bugs the hell outta me, sibce its directly in my line if sight.. To fix that will require that I make several relief cuts to the bracing so I can push it down, then weld it all back....which will fck the bodywork all the hell up too.
Im conjuring a hood scoop design in my head for that hood, itll be made out of steel, only instead of welding it to the hood, and warping that sheet metal all to hell and back, ill make it a bolt on.
Pretty radical design. right now, itll either be one forward facing " snorkel " style inlet on the driver side, and a siamesed version facing backwards on the pass side as an heat extractor for the turbo,
Or they'll both face forward. I dont know just yet. One way or the other, both hoods are gonna take some time to make right.
I bought a GPS based speedo sender to get my speedo working.
Lastly,..im researching torque arm suspensions...that is part of the plan, along with a
panhard bar for the rear
suspension after the hood.
Never an idle minute in monster Town.