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Adding Hood Vents
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Le Mans Master
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St. Jude Donor '11
Frenchican's hood is the same Carravaggio one a Johns. It's got the vents from Carravaggio. All I'm proposing is adding my own similar vents. You guys have no faith in my fab work...
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St. Jude Donor '11
Well I went to Pep Boys and bought everything they had in their accessory aisle. I think I'm done.
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From: Feverish All Over
That's the one!! FYI I was at Carlisle last week and dropped by the Carvaggio booth - John was there and we talked about cutting vents into an OEM hood. He advised that the material does not take well to such mods and the edges will sag around the cut.
The idea of trying this on a scrap hood makes a lot of sense - does not even have to be a C6 hood - a C5 hood would do just as well....
The idea of trying this on a scrap hood makes a lot of sense - does not even have to be a C6 hood - a C5 hood would do just as well....
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There was a post sometime back where someone put on the side vents from a late model escalade on his C6. It kind of gave the hood an Aston Martin look. I am not sure if the Escalade vents are functional or not but it did look tasteful on the Vette. The only thing I can remember about the Vette is it was a red one.
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From: Milford NH
And your fuel rail covers.Don't see many with those still on coming out of Kateck's garage.
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