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My wife decided to be helpful and washed my yellow Prechargers with Clorox. They can take gasoline, but not bleach! Ate the elastic up so I had to get new ones. I decided to go festive and match the other red in my bay. These little jewels help keep water out of my carbs as the louvers resting 3/4" right above them will suck rain into the filters. I don't intentionally drive in a deluge but get stuck in one then and again. Going to Mississippi this weekend and could well be floating there. Rain-x time.

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Hey Tom.
I brought my bonnet to a shop in Monroe, LA that built customs and drag cars. They had one of those giant C-clamp louver punches. A hard-to-find thing. They had to move the brace on the right underside of my bonnet inboard about 4" and TIGed it back on. I had them punch 13 4" louvers on the right side only, right over the carb filters. The picture below shows the setup with my velocity stacks in place. I did some amateur smoke testing with a smoke stick I stole and watched the smoke get sucked into the louvers at speed. Kinda cool that it works. The louvers are in the vortex area of the car so a negative pressure sucks air into them while driving. At a stop, I kinda think that "some" engine heat has a chance to escape upward. Probably negligible but anything helps with headers.

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Good morning Bill,

That is very interesting and I am sure you are right about the flow. You are most likely right about the heat loss at a stop. I am sure that if you held your hand over them when the car is idling you would feel the heat for sure.

The only thing I see that could be a problem is like you said, is water. Although I had louvers on my GT6 and never had any trouble.

Thanks for the pic and information.
 
Them's purdy, Bill!
 
You sure got a purty hood, boy.

It looks like it's time to kick up the engine compartment "bling" a notch...........
 
Bill are you coming to Brits by the River in Vidalia La. this weekend. If you are I will see you there.

Don
 
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Bill-

That's pure dazzle with a whole bunch of sizzle
thrown in for good measure.

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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donbmw said:
Bill are you coming to Brits by the River in Vidalia La. this weekend. If you are I will see you there.

Don
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Hey Don, yeah, we will be there. Coming in on Friday night and staying at the host motel. Should be fun. Went 3 years ago and enjoyed ourselves alot. See you there.
 
Bill, I had to leave for a business meeting this morning and want to just add that your louvers look great. I know a guy that does them too and have some idea of what it takes to get them right and not all over the place. Gutsy move if you only had one bonnet!
 
Tom, needless to say, they were in my throat. The guy that did them spent an awful amount of time laying them out, practicing on scrap metal and was totally obsessed with getting them right. He even set up a jig so that the whole bonnet would travel on the same plane down the table and not veer off one way or another. The punch was hydraulic and made the cut very quickly. Came out with zero flaws. I guess too that I was lucky.
 
DNK said:
Before the bonnet was painted or after?
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We chemically stripped the paint off the bonnet in the area to be punched. Of course were going to respray the whole thing. Interestingly, when he cut out the spot weld that held the brace in place and moved it over a few inches to TIG it back on, he didn't even burn the paint on the bonnet. Man, ya gotta love someone that is good with a TIG machine.
 
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