time for paint and bodywork

[Aaronbrook37]

What you've done is perfect. It's not getting air in that's the problem, it's getting air out. You may have seen my post on aerodynamics in Sasquatch's belly pan thread. Your ventilation system there is perfect... the back of the engine bay is one of the highest pressure areas in the car. You may get a little more engine noise obviously, but the air flow for both your radiator and intercooler should be very significant in terms of improvement.

[angrygocart]

You can cut the cowl vents from another car and weld them into the hood, same area where you have the vent now. I can't remember where I've seen a picture of this done. Looked factory, and a little different with two rows of cowl vents.

[sasquatch]

thats a nice vent... i like it, not to rice, just nice i think ill try this on my bad hood to see if i like it on my car

[FastOrBust]

i like that cut in the hood what did u cut it with to make it come out so nice

[bravekozak]

send in the hood

Take the hood off and send it in to be professionally louvered with a die.
It costs $1.50 per louver.

http://www.hotrodlouvers.com/

[Aaronbrook37]

Yo that's in Kelowna! Siiiick... I may actually get in touch with this company.

[bravekozak]

400 ton

There are also all kinds of shops across the States that do louvering. They did a lot of that back in the sixties.
I wouldn't be surprised if they are still using the same tooling.

To make a nice louver the width of the hood like shorestiva wants, would require a 300 ton press to do it nicely + a big expensive die.

[shorestiva]

i like that cut in the hood what did u cut it with to make it come out so nice

Zip wheel on a grinder.

Take the hood off and send it in to be professionally louvered with a die.
It costs $1.50 per louver.

http://www.hotrodlouvers.com/

Yeeeeeah..... no louvers. Just not my style.



Bent the top up alittle kinda hard to see but I think it looks good.

[bravekozak]

Subaru hood scoop

No red. The choices are just black or silver.

http://www.amazon.com/2008-UP-Subaru-Impreza-GrillCraft-Grille/dp/B0035ONO9C

or get that metalforming tool/machine that the guys use on the Chopper TV show.

[shorestiva]

Also started pulling the motor and wiring again.

[sasquatch]

that looks good, almost factory...

Also started pulling the motor and wiring again.

what happend? did i miss somthing?

[shorestiva]

Just didnt run right and the block is wore out. It had 150k on it when I swapped it in the first time then I ran 15+psi on it for a year. Now smokes under boost and on decel. Im hoping that rewiring it (again) without the relay board and with shielded wires will fix the hesitation.

[phyaz91]

update?

[shorestiva]

Motors out, probly going to send out the ms to get checked in a day or 2. Also have most of the stuff swapped over onto the b6d block. Just waiting on some stuff before I finish bolting it back together.

My hatch popped a headgasket though so ive been trying to fix that. Ive sent 3 heads to the machine shop to make shure they arent warped and all 3 have been unusable. Sending #4 up tomorrow hopefully itll be good.

[shorestiva]

Actually acomplished something something on it.