Rockets Wagon

[Winnie]

Coming along very nicely mate! Well done

[mudski]

Looks awesome Rod.

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[Hodge]

Looks great Rod. Measure twice, cut once method for the bonnet ey...
This thread is pretty much a "To do" and " How to do" for me, since our cars are identical. lol

[Rocket55]

Haha I know what you mean, There's a couple of rigs on here and the other site that I get my inspiation and instructions from too, although mostly just search... Usually find what I'm after but generally also find about 3 other things that I should do as well.

[Rocket55]

Don't follow this install mate as I stuffed it up I should have cut a nice rectangular hole joining up the drill holes from the foam blocks on the cooler. Instead I used these as a reference to ensure the scoop was centred over the cooler (front to back) then traced out the inner lip of the cooler template and cut that as such the foam on the cooler now won't touch or seal on the bonnet... I'll have to look at some infill panels or find another bonnet at a wreckers...

Are all the bonnets the same? If I just find a GU 4 onwards bonnet off anything I should be right, given that I will be cutting my own hole in it anyway. Any suggestions as to where I can find one?

[Hodge]

Damn mate. That's no good. So, the way I understood it, you followed the paper template you had on top of the bonnet ???? But instead should have cut the inside-out where the foam stuck to the bonnet ?

Edit: I reckon wreckers are you best bet mate.

[Rocket55]

Yep, that's exactly right. I really don't know what was going through my head, not much obviously! I'm so pissed with myself it's not funny, it's seriously just a hassle I could do without at the moment.

Could have been worse I guess, at least it's only a bonnet and relatively easily fixed, just a pain in the arse.

I'll give a few wreckers a call today and see what the go is. Depending on the cost and what colour they have, if I have to get it painted anyway, I can buy new bonnets for just under $350 without searching to hard.

[Bloodyaussie]

I fitted one of these scoops last week and nearly started drilling when I thought I had it centered but something did not seem right so a checked about 8 times until I checked the lines of the template and realised that the drill holes were way off... Im glad I checked so many times as in the past I would be in more of a hurry to get it done and would have missed this.

Bloody sucks mate big time and I do think they should be a little clearer in the instructions.

[Rocket55]

Yep, my mistake. Although if the instructions had a dotted rectangle in the middle of the template saying "your cut out should be in this approximate location, see instructions" then the instructions actually mention this, that would be helpful.

I'm still dirty about it.... Good news though, at least my flywheel issues have been sorted.

[Rocket55]

Turbo came out this afternoon to make way for a better item





New v's old intake pipework



I'll start on removing the injector pump after dinner.