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Old Jan 25, 2009 | 07:57 AM
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I'm diggin it..Thanks Chip.





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Old Jan 25, 2009 | 08:06 AM
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Looks great, love the red

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Old Jan 25, 2009 | 08:17 AM
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Wow, what a beautifully maintained engine bay

I looks like it belongs

Tks again

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Old Jan 25, 2009 | 08:43 AM
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Thanks! Now I have to add that to my "To Do List". It just never stops!
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Old Jan 25, 2009 | 08:48 AM
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Lookin good n clean
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Old Jan 25, 2009 | 10:30 AM
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A little more color to the engine bay never hurt anything.
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Old Jan 25, 2009 | 10:31 AM
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Looks great
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It all starts with an innocent little air coupler. That's how he lures you in.
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Looking good!

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It all starts with an innocent little air coupler. That's how he lures you in.
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Nice and clean engine bay and the coupler is the start of the slippery slope
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That looks good. I like the color coordinated to the body color on your car.

If you want to carry it one step further w/o breaking the bank, you can use "constant torque" stainless clamps instead of the worm drive clamps. You can find them at NAPA in a good selection.

Just over tighten the constant torque clamp on the air bridge side or it will collapse the thin plastic. You also have to compress the clamp slightly to give it the oval shape of the air bridge. The constant torque will never loosen as the worm drive clamps tend to do...

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Originally Posted by sneakelman
It all starts with an innocent little air coupler. That's how he lures you in.
That's how I started.
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Originally Posted by peter pan
Nice and clean engine bay and the coupler is the start of the slippery slope


It's all down hill from here bro !
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does it feel any different? throttle response perhaps..
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