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Offline cooki

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Bonnet lifters
« on: 24 August 2012, 12:06 »
Is there a bonnet lifting kit u can get for the golfs.
I did a group buy a few years ago on a starlet gt turbo forum and some guy was making these lifters that bolted to you hinges to lift the back of the bonnet so when the wind/air passed through the grille it pushed the hot air out the back of the bonnet.
Seems a good idea in theory.
Any body ever had any fitted to a golf???
Or any body got an opinion on them??
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Re: Bonnet lifters
« Reply #1 on: 24 August 2012, 12:13 »
my opinion on them is that they look like you've had a front end collision :grin:
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Re: Bonnet lifters
« Reply #2 on: 24 August 2012, 12:23 »
get vented?
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Re: Bonnet lifters
« Reply #3 on: 24 August 2012, 12:40 »
Quote from: km on 24 August 2012, 12:13
my opinion on them is that they look like you've had a front end collision :grin:

Well true mate yes to the untrained eye maybe but to any petrol head they would no what they are so that's all that matters lol.
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Re: Bonnet lifters
« Reply #4 on: 24 August 2012, 12:41 »
Quote from: GTi_James on 24 August 2012, 12:23
get vented?

Yes vents are a good idea but a hell of a lot more money and hassle than a £20 DIY bolt on kit but I'll defo keep that idea in mind fella
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Re: Bonnet lifters
« Reply #5 on: 24 August 2012, 14:19 »
i spent the winter with my cousin in Collorado a year back and hes has a anni but swapped his bonnet for a custome made vented one but he placed the vents up towards to the windscreen and designed some fins to direct the hot air onto his windscreen, reason being is that when is snowed heavily the Kamei grill at the front forced the heat of the engine onto the windscreen, kept it nice and toasty so when it was hit with snow he didnt get a build up of snow on the wipers and it just water being wiped away as apposed to bigger and bigger piles of snow, seemed to work and didnt look like there were any vents until you got right up close. cost him about $200 but for a discreet and useful mod i'd pay for it lol
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Re: Bonnet lifters
« Reply #6 on: 24 August 2012, 16:04 »
the 106gti brigade would be proud...
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Re: Bonnet lifters
« Reply #7 on: 24 August 2012, 16:08 »
Quote from: Wazzzer on 24 August 2012, 16:04
the 106gti brigade would be proud...

they dont survive up there  :lipsrsealed:

Wazzzer did you get my PM?
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Re: Bonnet lifters
« Reply #8 on: 25 August 2012, 00:21 »
Yes mate sorry I forgot to reply, will reply in the morning on the big PC rather than my phone
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Re: Bonnet lifters
« Reply #9 on: 25 August 2012, 11:35 »
Quote from: Wazzzer on 25 August 2012, 00:21
Yes mate sorry I forgot to reply, will reply in the morning on the big PC rather than my phone

cheers mate, this ARB business is giving me hell
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