Real Hood Vents!!!

rockcrawler · Jul 18, 2011

Made some serious damage to my hood, for the good. I shouldn't have any problems with high tems in the engine bay. Also running 2 electric fans on all metal HD radiator.

Fabed some 1 3/4 square hood spacers for the back of the hood, the front will shut in its place.

Also took off rear hatch struts that didn't hold and were weak, mounted them to the hood and it holds awesome, the hood weighs less. Its a good use of bad hatch struts

clean4drxj · Jul 18, 2011

nice job, BTW that"s a sweet rig you got there!

aparke4 · Jul 18, 2011

kdub41 · Jul 18, 2011

how in the heck did you fit the compass lights on the xj??

FlexdXJ · Jul 18, 2011

kdub41 said:
how in the heck did you fit the compass lights on the xj??

Those are Commander lights. There is a write up somewhere.

xcm · Jul 18, 2011

nice rig, and nicer garage....

SC Rednek · Jul 18, 2011

I like it! Where'd you get the trim strip for around the cutout?

And I've never thought of using hatch struts for that, Now I know what to do with mine if they ever go bad.

Built2Flex · Jul 18, 2011

xcm said:
nice rig, and nicer garage....

What part of the garage are you looking at? It's looks a mess to me. Jeep is pretty badass though.

xcm · Jul 18, 2011

may be cluttered, but that garage is used!

... and ive allways been jelous of people with those in-wall vacuum systems....

kndrewa · Jul 19, 2011

good stuff.

spencer elliott · Jul 19, 2011

what about water?

or am i to assume this is not your DD...

Lowrange2 · Jul 19, 2011

rockcrawler said:

Watering the flowers?

Nice vents. Interesting looking headlights.

karstic · Jul 19, 2011

lowrange2 said:
Watering the flowers?

rockcrawler said:

Click to expand...

Nice vents. Interesting looking headlights.

Hello.

rockcrawler · Jul 19, 2011

Built2Flex said:
What part of the garage are you looking at? It's looks a mess to me. Jeep is pretty badass though.

Yeah my garage is a disaster, I cant wait till I pull the Jeep out of the garage and clean it.

rockcrawler · Jul 19, 2011

SC Rednek said:
I like it! Where'd you get the trim strip for around the cutout?

I used the trim that you use on the edge of the door. From any parts store, Please just dont use chrome, you'll look like an amigo parked by Pep-Boys auto store

SteveT · Jul 19, 2011

Do you think you need the spacers with all that vent area?

How long do you think it'd take to cook a burger on that grill?

LyonsXJ · Feb 14, 2012

Nice job. Looking to do something similar. May I ask where you got the grill material and the dimensions on it? Thanks.

91to99 · Feb 14, 2012

Looks like expanded metal. Obtainable at your local metal shop. Sometimes at hardware stores also.

LyonsXJ · Feb 15, 2012

No metal shop locally. I tried Lowes, Home Depot and a local hardware store and no results.
I'd also like to know what he used on the end of the shock (hood end) to secure the old hatch shocks. I have a set I'm looking to do this with.

xj9140 · Feb 16, 2012

spencer elliott said:
what about water?

or am i to assume this is not your DD...

Yeah, you might want to address that. I used to have a vent over the throttle body and tps's kept dieing and making my trannie do weird stuff.. Looks good though.

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