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| wallys914 |
 May 22 2009, 01:09 AM
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In life you don't get what you want, you get what you negoia  Group: Members Posts: 190 Joined: 10-October 08 From: Garden Grove, Member No.: 9,631 Region Association: Southern California  |
So I had been kicking myself well sort of for cutting up my ok Chrome bumper to try to make it work with a grill, but not so much lately cause I picked up a gt fg front bumper and valance. Now loooking through some pics of other worlder's cars I see a style that I like a gt front valance, with a chrome bumper. I dont know how much cooling this will provide for a v8 conversion though. Any ideas? Any one sporting this look, with pics?
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| roadster fan |
May 22 2009, 01:07 PM
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Project Frankenstein !!!!!!!! Group: Members Posts: 1,009 Joined: 24-November 05 From: Aptos, CA Member No.: 5,184 Region Association: Northern California |
I havent done it, but that is not enough of an opening for cooling a V8 let alone an oil cooler. Even the GT bumper has double that size opening for an oil cooler.
Look for pics of computers4kids car, and JRust's car. They cut openings in bumpers and used a 350z grill which matches up with the fog light grills almost perfectly. I believe your opening should be about 25% the size of your radiator and must be shrouded to maximize cooling. Hope this helps, others will chime it I'm sure. Also do a search for V8 threads, there are many. Jim |
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| JJ914GT |
May 22 2009, 02:49 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 171 Joined: 21-May 09 From: Amsterdam Member No.: 10,386 Region Association: Europe |
My car has the black grill from a VW Golf in the chrome bumper.
I also have the black foglight grills. Looks completely stock. Have never seen this somewhere else, but it works very very well. ( that would be the VW Rabbit MK1 in the US I think) |
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| jimkelly |
May 22 2009, 05:57 PM
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Delaware USA Group: Members Posts: 4,969 Joined: 5-August 04 From: Delaware, USA Member No.: 2,460 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region |
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| JJ914GT |
May 23 2009, 05:52 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 171 Joined: 21-May 09 From: Amsterdam Member No.: 10,386 Region Association: Europe |
Picture of the VW Golf MK1 grill:
(IMG:http://94.100.116.72/589600001-589650000/589645201-589645300/589645270_6_RWyd.jpeg) |
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| jmmotorsports |
May 23 2009, 07:49 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 308 Joined: 15-August 06 From: Kelso,Wa. Member No.: 6,658 Region Association: Pacific Northwest |
My V8
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