wolfy

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SMKN TA 95 - could you get a good pic of your clearance between the throttle body and the cowl? i'm looking to run a carbed setup, and the way yours is done looks great for me, and gives me a couple of ideas, but i'd also like to see exactly how much clearance is back there...

thanks in advance...

JL ws-6

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One other thing I fogit to mention as I have looked into doing this, you have to go to a hood that goes to the windshield, or it's gonna look really dumb with a big gap bewteen the end of the hood and the windshield that will now have nothing there. So, you really have to go to a pin on style hood.


When I said I didn't have the $ to do it, that's why. Between the hood, getting the body work done and of course repainting the entire engine bay, it's like a 2000 dollar project. Sure the hood and the metal removed is probably 50 lbs, but it's alot of $

JRcamaroZ28

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I did mine like SMKN TA 95 also this past summer. I also added a piece to cover the opening from where the window motor went just for looks

SMKN TA 95

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Here you go.

wolfy

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thanks much!!!!!!!

-wolfy

wolfy

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sorry for being a pain in the ***, but does your hood go all the way to the windshield? could you get a pic of what the cowl area looks like with the hood on? sorry for the bother, TIA;

-wolfy

jakesz28

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I did it today. The car will never be the same I cut the cowl and I removed the whole lower section. I was going to do it like smokin but I don't want to buy a new pin on hood at this time. So I left a few small spots so I could bolt the black pastic back on to cover it. With the plastic on you can't tell anything was cut unless your looking real hard thru the cowl covering. It will make using a rear mount distributer easier but it will stil be a pain. I can post pics later.

Z28/2002

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I'm doing a carb conversion on my CETA when the motor gets back together. Keep the pics coming

dlove

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sweet cant wait for pics. any idea of how much weight was cut off?

LSGunZ28

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what is the disadvantage of doing this?

daniel6718

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when yall cut this off and boxed it in did yall weld metal ontop the front to box it in? if so how did yall do that without damaging the window? a bunch of small tacks? then grinder then filler to make it look smoothe

JL ws-6

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Pin on hood, and you're probably gonna end up cracking thw windshield eventually, because oen decent tap in that area ( removing a motor, whatever) is gonna crack the windshield for sure. BUt, a plastic windshield, will solve that issue. Personally, I'll probably do one at the same time.

DopeFedZ

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Here's a couple of pics of how my buddy did his new project.

John_D.

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You lose the wipers which could be a disadvantage if you drive it on the street.

9sec93

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just keep the rain-x handy.

Taubr Unit

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Dude, that looks pretty cool. Did he weld in filler pieces or just cut everything super close? I want to do this but i dont wanna start welding in filler pieces, just too much work IMO for no real advantage. And you cant really say weight savings cause your welding in metal back in. So for myself, its not worth it just to take the engine out cause mine never comes out, lol.

But did your buddy weld in pieces or is that all just cut off? Got any closer pics??

DopeFedZ

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He did weld in filler pieces. I don't have any more pics other than what was posted.

jakesz28

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It's been a while but I have the car back and took some pictures of what I've done so far.

Fast_94_Z

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smknta95, thats one of my favorite cars on this board. actualy looking how you did this makes me want to go ahead and do this aswell.

Jantzer98SS

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I don't have a finished product yet, but here is how we did mine.

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