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I've also been talking to a mate about under bonnet heat and after much chatting I'm going to need to vent the heat..

I was going to just lift the back of the bonnet and hope for the best ..but we put a model mk3 in a theoretical wind tunnel and the best place to draw heat out of the engine....like most cars is in the front half of the bonnet.....and I want to do that before I paint it...

wasn't really wanting to cut holes in a mk3 bonnet...but this car will never not have a turbo motor in it ....so may as well.

after looking and marking it out on the underside for room for vents... there are 2 basic areas.... marked with stars..... and I'm probably going with where the big star is.... same area I did on the other mk3.20221209_162858.thumb.jpg.bfa9669f10c2abb3c60a52feaf5614bb.jpg

I have a plan though 

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I had a look at the rear valance today ( I had a feeling it was bad ...as they all rust).

I stripped it back to bare metal ( if that's what you could call it..... and I didn't even get a pic).. it was full off shifty rust repairs and dents...

I did look at palms ideas for a new valance but at over 500 bucks I realized a new valance wasn't on the cards for this old girl......(not yet anyway).... I wasn't to keen on cutting it all out and making it..... so I did the next best thing.......

     bogged the shut out of it and sanded it back with the orbital sander and primed it........ fucking done.

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will I had the bog in hand I did a few little spots I had found... 2 on the roof and on the driver's Rea 1/4.

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and also the petrol flap and radiator mounts.

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so that's everything that's going bogy colour done.... just have to resend it all with some 400 and fix anything i find.

 

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ok  so on the bonnet vent situation..

I have set of cheap steel Rendon vents on the way 200x115mm...... not sureScreenshot_20221211_150657_Chrome.jpg.e2325e38a025c37a8e5017b116ae362c.jpg

I also liked the look of the audi sport quattro front vents ... and in the same sort of place... but hard to find and expensive. 

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and the lancia delta integrale..... just the front one... but again expensive and hard to find. 

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then I looked at the cosworth, escort ..to rounded .. the sierra cosworth almost ..... and then I found them... sierra cosworth rs500...    down side won't be here till and of January..   I am hoping he can send me a template of the hole so I can al least cut that and still paint the bonnet....

but might just have to paint that layer on....maybe.

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back to my old black mk3...

I got everything sanded back 320 then 400 and finally 600.

pulled all the masking off the shell and blow it out ..cleaned the garage and re masked the car back up...

turned the garage into a bit of a booth to try and keep dust down and overspray of everything. 

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