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Old Mar 25, 2007 | 05:56 PM
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Does any body no how to take off the air intake lid on an SS hood its the plastic piece on the hood I want to take off to paint it with soem chrome paint.
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Old Mar 25, 2007 | 06:29 PM
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if you mean the airbox lid its jsut 2 clamps
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Old Mar 25, 2007 | 08:03 PM
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I mean the plastic piece on the ram air scoop. Not the air lid. It is the plastic piece located in the ram air scoop its self and I was wondering how u can take it off
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Old Mar 25, 2007 | 09:54 PM
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Don't know how to take that piece out, but that "chrome" spraypaint doesn't work worth a ****. It looks nice right after it's done, but anything will screw it up. Some metallic silver Krylon Fusion or something would work better.
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ohhhhh you mean the black screen thing in it. it just pulls out, get some wire and loop it through some of the holes and pull it out
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Old Mar 25, 2007 | 11:33 PM
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they are held in by 2 hex screws EDIT; thatw as for the trans am...sorry

yeh, the SS scoop thing should pop out somehow...
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