No hood = the ULTIMATE inter cooler.


But anyone can take a stock LIM and plumb a spray bar into it. If its done right yes, will work just fine. I was going to mod mine this way, but with my set up/design the alternator posed a threat to changing jets out.

With the spacer plate, its only 1" thick and the spray bar is exposed in the middle where the blower out let is, and the rest for intake runners 5 & 6 is machined into the plate. Then the LIM is "slightly" modified to allow this to work.

Lots or measuring and planning ahead of time, yes, if can be done. Hood clearance I can see being a problem with any after market hood. My MPD F1 hood, has the same underbelly if you will, as a stock hood. Another good reason why I went with this hood.

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what are these knobs for?

I'd like to get the intake manifold (upper) from my 3.1 Turbo polished. What do you think you could do with that? Price?

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Those are for the adjustable Koni struts

Hey Jason, I saw the pics of the new ZZP valve covers you did. Those look pretty damn good. How much did you charge for those? Also, ZZP has some new billit aluminum dog bones in their stock, what would you charge to polish/chrome plate those?

Thanks man,
Tom

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Yeah its a grand prix, so what, wanna fight about it.

I charged $50.00 a valve cover for the ZZP ones.

Aluminum dog bones, they usually run about $25.00 to no more than $30.00 to polish. If you want aluminum parts chrome plated, I have to send them out of state to have that done. They don't come out nice to my standards if they are done here. But if they are steel, like the stock ones...

they can be chrome plated here no problem.

I also powder coat them a lot of the time too. Like the ones in the pictures I posted. Red, Blue, and purple too. (colors to choose from are in the 500's)

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This could turn out great for you, yet a very very bad thing for my car savings account. I would guess that the shifter boot should work for my monte as well it looks like i should atleast. I think I may be interested.

As for the up keep on the polished and plated piece...have you had any comments back on them after say a winter season?

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ASE Certified and I-Car Auto Refinishing Technician
-78 Monte Carlo -01 Monte Carlo LSX -04 Cobra w/my friend KB

The Girlfriend drives her 1997 GTP year round. Her car turns a nice shade of dull white, with all the road salt on it. She has an F1 hood, which allows some of all that road grime into her engine bay, and yes, on her blower.

The blowers I do, if the customers have me disassemble and reassemble them, get cleaned in a special cleaner mix I have developed by accident. Not only does it clean the aluminum well, it seals the polished finish good, and acts as a barrier against the elements.

If you get the blower wet, after the "chemical bath" I give it, the polished aluminum finish WILL BEAD WATER off as if it had a wax job on a painted car.

So, back to the girlfriends blower...yes gets dirty, and yes it cleans back up with little to no effort after the crappy weather is over with. You do have to clean it, cause if it sits on it long enough, you will have some work ahead of you cleaning off the etched grime. That goes for anything that the road salt/grime touches...it leaves a nasty film on it. But if you make the effort to clean your car yearly after the snowy season...you will be more than fine.

Upkeep is pretty normal for any polished part. I use Mothers Mag and Aluminum Wheel polish on mine. Just a quick 5 minute wipe down before a car show and I'm done. More or less I am getting rid of smuges, like finger prints and sweaty arms that bump it while working else where under the hood. Not really polishing it.

Others have went as far as using "Zoop Seal" on theirs. Side by side 2 years later, you cant tell the difference between them, sealed, and not sealed.

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About what do the snouts and SC cases run to have those done?

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2001 GTP Special Edition
|ZZP PCM|Headers|Ported LIM and blower|3.4/3.2 pulley|Alt Rewire|MSD wires|Drilled 180* T stat|3" DP (no cat)|Ported TB|

I sent you a PM.

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