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Old Oct 25, 2013 | 07:04 PM
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I want to know why my Mecham hood does not have the ram air vents in the front like the one in the bottom pic, the first two pics are my car.
I don't know if it is because it is a early model, my car is #2 98 Mecham GTR TA.






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Old Oct 25, 2013 | 09:44 PM
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how about some more pics ,and have you emailed mecham themselves??
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Old Oct 25, 2013 | 09:48 PM
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That seems like a problem with the hood. Your fender is OEM.
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what pics would you want, and i have tried to call and email Mecham they will not get back to me.
i can not take pics in till Monday am getting some stuff repainted at the auto body shop at the school am going to.
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That seems like a problem with the hood. Your fender is OEM.
what are you talking about you cant see the fender in the pics and there is no front bumper cover on my car in the pics?
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Old Oct 27, 2013 | 05:34 PM
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You have the earlier Mecham design. They re-did them in...2000? 2001? Something like that...
I had the early design on my 99 TA, and I think the new design had come out when I traded her in for the '02...
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That's what i thought but my sept 2009 issue of high performance pontiac has the #1 98 Mecham TA in it and it had the screens, but am sure they put a new hood on because the shitty quality of the older hoods.
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Old Oct 29, 2013 | 09:35 AM
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Yeah, I'm familiar with the poor quality of the early hoods ...here's my old car:
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Old Oct 29, 2013 | 12:49 PM
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Looks good i have never seen stripes on a Mecham hood before.
I will get some pics of my car when it is not dirty and gets out of body shop. Should be out by end of the week.
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Dennis is VERY hard to get a hold of but nice when you do.

On a side note, I am really trying hard to get my hands on a set of Power Oval Tips...if you know of any around for sale please let me know.

Thanks!

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Old Nov 4, 2013 | 05:27 PM
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I seen a set of Power Oval Tips on ebay last month but they are long gone now.
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Old Nov 17, 2013 | 05:38 AM
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yea you have the early design. the version 1. which came on the actual mecham TA's then he changed the design in 01 i think to the one on my car which is the version 2

version 2 is what most of us have now.


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