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 Post subject: EF XR smoothed bonnet vents!
Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 7:53 pm 
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Hey all, just a thought.. was thinking about buying another bonet for my xr and smoothing the edges of the scoops so that only the actual vents are visible and not the outline of the scoop! not sure how it will look.. has anyone done this yet??

 

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 Post subject: Re: EF XR smoothed bonnet vents!
Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2010 10:45 pm 
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If your gonna f**k with it maybe by a standard gli bonnet and modify that instead.

 

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Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2010 11:06 pm 
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If your gonna f**k with it maybe by a standard gli bonnet and modify that instead.


Ah to save f**k genuine bonnet? do you think geting the vents in the right place on a gli bonnet to start would be hard?

 

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 Post subject: Re: EF XR smoothed bonnet vents!
Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2010 11:08 pm 
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I havent seen it done, but I rekon it'd look alright. Give it a crack.

 

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 Post subject: Re: EF XR smoothed bonnet vents!
Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2010 11:16 pm 
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yea i probs will sometime in the next few months, got some other things in mind first! i reckon ill use EL vents but, i think it would look beter

 

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 Post subject: Re: EF XR smoothed bonnet vents!
Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2010 11:34 pm 
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Yeah I personally prefer the el vents, but it's very much opinion as for every body 1 I knows that said they like the el vent, theirs been 1 to say they prefer ef vents.

Yeah it maybe a bit difficult but yeah I'd be inclined to make a large template off the old bonnet I reckon that wouldn't be to bad to do, might be handy to have second set of hands.
and yeah exactly xr bonnets are hard as f**k to source.
In my opinion maybe cut the holes a hare narrower and the massage the panel a fraction.

but I'll definitely love to see this in person, as It'd be hard to tell from a photo how good/bad it looks, well maybe bad.

 

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 Post subject: Re: EF XR smoothed bonnet vents!
Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2010 12:02 am 
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here is a lame photo shop atempt, but i reckon it looks way beter 8-) left hand side is smoothed

 

 

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Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2010 12:03 am 
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the smoothing would look beter on a el vent im thinking

 

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Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2010 3:52 pm 
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ok so there i a el xr6 bonnet on ebay atm moment that just needs paint, buy it now for 150 or starting bid of 100, it is missing the vents but seem like a good price. so im going to have a bid on this and with any luck ill get it.. then i just need a pair of el vents and ill be right to start making an atempt at smoothing the vents 8-)

 

 

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Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2010 7:33 am 
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hey i have two xr boonet flutes available however one is missing the base part of it. Both would need a sand and respray too. if u went to a wreckers and picked up another base you would be set to go

 

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