COnvince me the stock lid is restrictive

**5abivt** · 03-19-2010, 10:04 AM

you guys are gonna laugh but I'm thinking of ways to cut off the resonance chambers and glue them to the new lid I get. I don't like seeing the pullies etc it looks naked !

**Blue28** · 03-19-2010, 10:05 AM

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**jiveass** · 03-19-2010, 10:05 AM

Originally Posted by 5abivt

you guys are gonna laugh but I'm thinking of ways to cut off the resonance chambers and glue them to the new lid I get. I don't like seeing the pullies etc it looks naked !

wait...yea i wanna see this

**02Sweet** · 03-19-2010, 10:09 AM

Originally Posted by 5abivt

you guys are gonna laugh but I'm thinking of ways to cut off the resonance chambers and glue them to the new lid I get. I don't like seeing the pullies etc it looks naked !

LOL

You would hate my car then...If someone on the car is not needed it gets removed and put on the rafters in the garage. (btw rafters are filling up quickly)

**shady milkman** · 03-19-2010, 10:10 AM

Originally Posted by 5abivt

you guys are gonna laugh but I'm thinking of ways to cut off the resonance chambers and glue them to the new lid I get. I don't like seeing the pullies etc it looks naked !

you are right...we will laugh ..i understand where you are coming from...but gluing the chambers on will look trashy and out of place ..so it will do much more to harm the look of your engine bay than do good. if you dont have FRCs..get them..they will take eyes off of the pulleys and to them.

**02Sweet** · 03-19-2010, 10:13 AM

Originally Posted by shady milkman

you are right...we will laugh ..i understand where you are coming from...but gluing the chambers on will look trashy and out of place ..so it will do much more to harm the look of your engine bay than do good. if you dont have FRCs..get them..they will take eyes off of the pulleys and to them.

I just don't like opening my hood...don't want to give the ricers an idea of what I have under it...

Yes FRC do take your eyes away from everything

**5abivt** · 03-19-2010, 10:17 AM

I'm just a fan of a clean oem look. i think if I had a black car i wouldn't mind under the hood so much but there's just no style in a 4th gen under the hood. I think I need to get vette frcs for sure.

**pajeff02** · 03-19-2010, 10:17 AM

The lid outlet is a circle -- the resonator inlet is a squashed oval. It would certainly take some ingenuity and fab skills to make it work. Personally, I was thrilled to ditch that big ugly plastic piece, along with the secondary air system, the cruise module and wire harness over the passenger side wheelhouse.

**Spaz** · 03-19-2010, 10:31 AM

just throw a black tarp over top of the engine bay... i don't understand what the concern is... it's not liek you'll be driving around with the hood off...

**bryceslu** · 03-19-2010, 10:38 AM

Originally Posted by 5abivt

you guys are gonna laugh but I'm thinking of ways to cut off the resonance chambers and glue them to the new lid I get. I don't like seeing the pullies etc it looks naked !

Did I really just read that?

I think it looks so much cleaner with a lid.

**67CamaroRSSS** · 03-19-2010, 10:49 AM

Originally Posted by bryceslu

Did I really just read that?

I think it looks so much cleaner with a lid.

Agreed. But then again I'm old school. I'm used to seeing engine and associated parts when I open the hood.

**5abivt** · 03-19-2010, 10:57 AM

lol ok so maybe i just exaggerated a bit how i felt about the stock piece covering up the pulleys etc. Ive been staring at that lid pic for the last hour its growing on me. I think ill add red frc's or perhaps some black ones and leave it at that. time to pm mark@kyspeed !

**KahanaReef** · 03-19-2010, 11:17 AM

Originally Posted by 67CamaroRSSS

Agreed. But then again I'm old school. I'm used to seeing engine and associated parts when I open the hood.

And very little else

Nothing better than a big Ole motor and roomy engine bay

**shady milkman** · 03-19-2010, 11:23 AM

Originally Posted by KahanaReef

And very little else

Nothing better than a big Ole motor and roomy engine bay

that is what i love about my grandfathers 56 f-350 ..when i was working on it ..i actually crawled into the engine bay and was able to move around to get good angles

scratch that..it is a 250 i believe

**pajeff02** · 03-19-2010, 11:23 AM

Originally Posted by KahanaReef

Nothing better than a big Ole motor and roomy engine bay

Amen! That is why I really like our old cars -- only thing on the firewall is brakes, 2 heater hoses, a wire harness, throttle linkage and a wiper motor.

**02Sweet** · 03-19-2010, 11:31 AM

Originally Posted by pajeff02

Amen! That is why I really like our old cars -- only thing on the firewall is brakes, 2 heater hoses, a wire harness, throttle linkage and a wiper motor.

Jeff you are sort of right....I removed the wiper motor LOL! Gotta get rid of the weight!

My old c/10s you could climb in the engine bay and shut the hood there was so much room.

**Blue28** · 03-19-2010, 01:23 PM

IMO, a lid really helps clean up the engine compartment, allows more airflow around the engine, and it's good for 10hp, my SLP lid was money well spent!

**Smittro** · 03-19-2010, 01:56 PM

Originally Posted by 5abivt

I'm just a fan of a clean oem look. i think if I had a black car i wouldn't mind under the hood so much but there's just no style in a 4th gen under the hood. I think I need to get vette frcs for sure.

I had to laugh @ this

because our engine bays (including the v6ers) in my oppy some of the most disorganized engine bays I've ever seen over the years. Remonisent(sp) of the "smogger" years with 1000 ft. of vacc hoses runing every which way.. I think most of the uglyness comes from the rediculas wiring harnesses too..

Good thing tho some of the guys have come up with mods to hide some of it. Part of the reason I started painting engine parts recently.. Now I'm trying to figure a way to relocate my coils to clean it up a bit and show off my hard work.. Then custom CAI is in the works too along with a blower and some more rerouting of hoses hard lines etc,etc,etc.. I like things to be exact, because, well, I'm anal about form and function..

**67CamaroRSSS** · 03-19-2010, 01:57 PM

Blue 28 (above): Where did you relocate the coils to?

**wheeliE-maxx** · 03-19-2010, 02:17 PM

Originally Posted by 02Sweet

Jeff you are sort of right....I removed the wiper motor LOL! Gotta get rid of the weight!

My old c/10s you could climb in the engine bay and shut the hood there was so much room.

silly thing is the 402 was way easier to work on than a stock 350 like mine was, weird. To the op, why don't you cut the baffles out of the stock lid since you seem determined to keep it? This was the first thing my dad did to his t/a vert back in '00