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Raising bonnet
donn006 - 19/8/14 at 11:50 PM

Hi everyone I'm looking for a couple of strips of plastic or alloy to raise my nose cone and my bonnet from the chassis as the bonnet is touching my cambelt ,I'm looking for about 2x 1.5 metres long and about 30 mm width and 15-18 mm thick I've tried every ware from BBQ ,wicks and even a plastics place but no joy


Macbeast - 20/8/14 at 05:10 AM

Rectangular section plastic electrical cable trunking ?


INDY BIRD - 20/8/14 at 05:50 AM

No help with the trim but is lowering the engine and Option if only 15mm ? Or is this too much?

Failing that.poss use wood strip to raise it and cover it in 3m di noc carbon effect vynl

Cheers Sean


mcerd1 - 20/8/14 at 07:35 AM

what about a bonnet scoop - that's what most folk do in this situation

like this one for example:


Matt21 - 22/8/14 at 12:49 AM

could you not use some alu box section?

1"' x 1/2"', 1.1/2"'x 3/4"', 2"' x 1"',Aluminium Rectangular Tube / Box Section

£29 for a 3m length of 1.0" x 0.5"