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[flameredturbo]

HOW DO YOU RAISE THE BACK OF THE BONNET? IN MY CASE TO LET HEAT FROM THE TURBO ESCAPE.

DO YOU NEED TO MAKE UP BRAKETS?

THANKS

[andywaller]

i did this on my old mini with bonnet pins. i riveted triangular brakets to the corner of the scuttle and wing. and then just raised it on the pins.

however i have also seen it done using a small metal brakets on the standard hinges. i have got some close up pictures of a mini with the bonnet shut i will try and get them on for you to see.

it looked really clean!

[Guess-Works.com]

you can do it two ways... make some brackets to fit onto the existing hinges which lift the rear level of the bonnet. or do away with the hinges all together and then just mount the pins high enough to raise the rear..

One word of warning.. Air will not be sucked in, but sucked out, as a depression is caused at the back, unfortunately this sucks all sorts of C**p up from the road and bottom of the engine into the engine bay...

My engine bay is evidence of this !

[Jordie]

People normally remove the standard way of opening bonnet.

Then weld in triangles across the corner of wing and scuttle. mount 2 bonnet pins there, adjusting height required to give you the gap you want.

The front of bonnet can be pin'd or as my mate uses, a piece of metal welded to inside lip which slides thru the bonnet catch area.

Pin in corner...

[flameredturbo]

shame about the mess getting sucked up, but would be more of a shame to have it melt all the wires near the bulkhead!

[Guess-Works.com]

why don't you re-route the loom inside out of the way ?

[Cir-clipalot]

jordie what carb/airfilter set up is that?

[Jordie]

HS4 and standard filter.

and about a week after that photo, it looks like this



This aint my car, its |^Kane^| but he dont visit forums much.

[craig 1010cc]

I've been running my city with some brackets made from 4mm ally for the past 18 months (done about 10k) in all weathers including monsoon type rain (where even stg2 makes no difference) and with out a grill, and the engine bay hasn't got massivly dirty, no more than I would have expected running with out the grill any way

[Mini_resto]

u sure that wasn't a HS2 with Standard airbox

[miniturbonutter]

HOW DO YOU RAISE THE BACK OF THE BONNET? IN MY CASE TO LET HEAT FROM THE TURBO ESCAPE.

DO YOU NEED TO MAKE UP BRAKETS?

THANKS

Easiest way of doing this is to, where the hinges are still use the front hole and stud, but hitch the stud from the rear of the hinge UNDER the bonnet bracket, hence raising the back of the bonnet easily!

Check out the picture for results-

[Madmax]

many of us on the B2N run found this quite a good idea, and copied

[binge]

Id of thaught cutting some alloy plates about 1inch deep, and a few inch long. Then drilling 4 holes in each plate, In the correct places to line up with the existing holes in the bonnet and hinges.

The wider the holes are apart on the plates, the higher the bonnet lift.

Then simply use the existing bolts to secure the plate to the bonnet, and source another set of bolts to attach the home made plates to the hinges.

Surely this would be the easiest way.


<|Ben|>

[Jackman]

Do you have a pic of this mod?

[binge]

here, I did mine today.

It was a case of cutting 2 squares of ally plate. drilling 4 holes in each one, and then putting it inbetween the bonnet and the hinge (to extend the lift)

Took a bit of setting up, had to bend the lock at the front forwards a bit so it would go in the hole.

<|Ben|>

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