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Anyone out there reckon they could make a gts bonnet from a standard bonnet ? Edited by user Thursday, 11 January 2007 4:46:15 AM(UTC)
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If you could supply a good panel beater with the raised sections that contain the flutes out of a HT/G GTS bonnet they could weld them into a HT or HG non GTS bonnet to create either a HT or HG GTS bonnet. Even then I still wouldn't paint it black as it w |
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Often asked the same thing but no-one does the weld in patches (please someone prove me wrong!). No idea where else you'd get the scoops but from an original GTS bonnet - good luck with that. I'm surprised no one does it because there'd be a big market, l
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will try and do some more homework on it and see what i can come up with
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I bought a pair of cutouts from an original bonnet and will be giving it a go
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I have the sheetmetal pieces I cut out of a very rusty HG GTS bonnet that had been left standing in dirt and rusted away for the bottom 6 inches or so. Basically cut from front to back, about 350mm wide with the scoops in the middle. Would be perfect for |
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hey byron dont suppose i could get a hold of them do ?
will only make a mold from them
and then give back
im in qld however would be prepared to pay postage both ways
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[quote]Originally posted by nick ht
Anyone out there reckon they could make a gts bonnet from a standard bonnet ?
won a gts bonnet on ebay over east but cost to much to send here
so he cut the vents out for me and posted them
and i weld
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Comments from some people at GMH indicate that there was more metal in the GTS bonnets than standard to allow for the vents. If you just press out of a standard one the metal may stretch and tear. If you press new vent panels out and then weld them into a
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if you get a experanced welder he/she will be able to weld them with minamall distortion with a tig welder uesing a back step or intermitant or pulse procsses the reason you cannot find some 1 who will do it is because it is a verry time consumeing job an
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