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billygoat
Joined: 16 Feb 2014 Posts: 72 Location: brevard nc
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ThomasJoseph315 Guest
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Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2014 11:39 am Post subject: |
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better prop the other side up on the hood or your going to bend that hood.
Ask me how I know :/ |
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fiat22turbo
Joined: 18 Jan 2006 Posts: 4040 Location: Portland, OR
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Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2014 11:51 am Post subject: |
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ThomasJoseph315 wrote: | better prop the other side up on the hood or your going to bend that hood.
Ask me how I know :/ |
Yeah, they do that on the older models.
Its worse when you have a fiberglass hood
I adapted some of these:
to alleviate that problem without going to struts like the later cars had. _________________ Stefan
1979 924 Carrera GTS (clone-ish)
1988 944 Turbo S (Silver Rose) |
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fiat22turbo
Joined: 18 Jan 2006 Posts: 4040 Location: Portland, OR
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Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2014 11:56 am Post subject: Re: my car |
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billygoat wrote: | https://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/4608x3456q50/833/lj8j.jpg |
Dude, hit the IMG button at the top of the text box, paste your image link, then click the IMG button again. If you do, you get this:
Looks like you've got one of the FOHA rear spoilers, which is a pretty rare item. Is there a matching front spoiler to go with it?
Someone took care of that car a bit, I see some red paint on the front calipers, a nice set of alloy wheels, fairly clean engine bay, etc.
Should be a pretty nice ride once its running! _________________ Stefan
1979 924 Carrera GTS (clone-ish)
1988 944 Turbo S (Silver Rose) |
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jason c
Joined: 13 Jan 2014 Posts: 1018 Location: Nwi
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Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2014 1:11 pm Post subject: |
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Not too baaaaaaad. |
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ThomasJoseph315 Guest
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Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2014 1:27 pm Post subject: |
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fiat22turbo wrote: | ThomasJoseph315 wrote: | better prop the other side up on the hood or your going to bend that hood.
Ask me how I know :/ |
Yeah, they do that on the older models.
Its worse when you have a fiberglass hood
I adapted some of these:
to alleviate that problem without going to struts like the later cars had. |
Is there anyway to mount lift supports on these hoods? |
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fiat22turbo
Joined: 18 Jan 2006 Posts: 4040 Location: Portland, OR
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Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2014 2:49 pm Post subject: |
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Possibly, using some rivnuts and some fabbed brackets. _________________ Stefan
1979 924 Carrera GTS (clone-ish)
1988 944 Turbo S (Silver Rose) |
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