Mounting Lumina Z34 hood Vents?

beer_goggles_009

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Cincinnati, OH

• Jun 17, 2010

• #1

How have others attached the Z34 hood vents to their hood? Specifically how did you attach the side without mountinhg tabs (4 tabs) below the hood?


Did you use some king of adhesive/RTV to hold the other side in place?

Did you rig up a mount off of the factory drip pan bosses?


Other mounting ideas



Thank you


Jim

 

beer_goggles_009

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Cincinnati, OH

• Jun 17, 2010

• #2

Images below for clarification:

picture of vents in place

Vents from the bottom notice the three tabs (top side of picture) that will be used to mount one side of the vents

close up of the bottom side of the vents. Notice that there is no easy way to fasten vents to the hood.

Any Ideas?

 

IllianaXJ

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Location

Southwest IN

• Jun 18, 2010

• #3

Sorry for not getting back with you. I ended up notching my holes for the vents on the non-tabbed side so I could utilize the threaded studs. I used bolts and a washer stack to secure that side. I will try and get pics for you tomorrow of the underside. I ended up with a slight gap between the vent and the hood, but I filled it in with redneck bondo aka RTV.

 

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Native Band

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Montana

• Jun 18, 2010

• #4

Then there is this: http://www.naxja.net/forum/showthread.php?t=991767

 

beer_goggles_009

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Cincinnati, OH

• Jun 18, 2010

• #5

the link in the previous post uses the drip pans to secure the vents to the hood. Has anyone installed the vents without using the drip pans?

 

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94xjstud

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Location

San Jose Ca

• Jun 19, 2010

• #6

Not suer if it helps, but I got some small angle iron, cut them into peices, drilled holes in them and ran a bolt through them.

 

beer_goggles_009

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Cincinnati, OH

• Jun 27, 2010

• #7

Here is what i finally ended up doing to mount the hood vents:

i used 2 of the tabs with a bolt, washer and nut to secure the vents to the hood.



on the non tabed side I bent a large fender washer:

then stacked a few miscellaneous small washers and the bent fender washer on the origional bolt that attaches the drip pans:

overall shot underhood:

 

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littledeviltj

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Location

FL

• Jul 11, 2010

• #8

did you mount the drip pans? I dont like how the drip pans fit really tight to the bottom of them. I feel like it would prevent air flow. im trying to figure out a way i can mount the drip pans with a gap between them and the vents/hood.