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ZODIAC · Joined: 08 Apr 2009 Posts: 342 Location: West Haven, Ct

if the weather is still good on tuesday(my day off) i'm going to try and install my new GT hood scoop. my question for those of you who have installed them already is, should i get some rubber or something to make a gasket to go between it and the hood? it didnt come with any instruction, just the scoop and the screws to hold it on.

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Grenadiers · Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:12 am Post subject:

I have a GT Racing hood scoop on my car, but it has an edge all the way around it. I went with the 'industrial' look (meaning, lazy), and riveted it on. I like the look, the hood has been painted to match since this photo. I did not use a gasket between the hood and scoop.

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ZODIAC · Joined: 08 Apr 2009 Posts: 342 Location: West Haven, Ct

mine doesnt have that lip around it and it dips down in the front so i have to cut the hood a little more to accomodate for that. but it has holes in the underside that are threaded for screws that came with it. i figure i'll just put a layer of RTV on it to help hold it in place and reduce friction between it and the hood.
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Carrera · Joined: 13 Nov 2009 Posts: 143 Location: Helsinki, Finland

Grenadiers · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 12:13 am Post subject:

Is the 'rubber band' under the hood? Then, that's to seal the intake ram to the top mounted intercooler. I have said TMIC and used foam! Butt-ugly, but the oem rubber is very expensive, if even available.
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Carrera · Joined: 13 Nov 2009 Posts: 143 Location: Helsinki, Finland

ideola · Joined: 01 Oct 2004 Posts: 15550 Location: Spring Lake MI

If you were going to go to the trouble of respraying a real Carerra GT (or even a decent facsimile of one), why in the interest of all that is good and beautiful would you not go to the minor trouble of removing the scoop and the gasket?????? Man, I don't get it.

On a related note, you wouldn't believe some of the stuff we found on my 941 when my paint guy started doing the prep. But that's another story

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Carrera · Joined: 13 Nov 2009 Posts: 143 Location: Helsinki, Finland

ideola · Joined: 01 Oct 2004 Posts: 15550 Location: Spring Lake MI

Admittedly, I do not know what the stock config is, but I was under the impression that it had the seal, not in body color, atop the hood like in the Yellow car example. Don't know why I have that impression, and it could be completely wrong...

...would have to dig through my photo archives to see if it reveals anything...gotta run in 5 minutes, so will have to come back to this later tonight...
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ZODIAC · Joined: 08 Apr 2009 Posts: 342 Location: West Haven, Ct

carrera; my car is an n/a but i have a custom intake manifold and downdraft carb setup. the entire CIS and original intake configurations have been removed before i bought the car. as for the brand it was advertised on ebay as being a GT raceing scoop, but i dont think it is.

i'll be posting pics of the install, i plan to hit it on sunday. i think i may try and get some thin rubber gasket material and make a gasket for it, or a good layer of RTV.

as far as measurments, i already have a roughly 12"x12" hole cut for the carb. my plan is to align the top right corner of the scoop (looking at it from the front as in my pic) with the top right corner of the cut in the hood. then just cut a section out for where the scoop dips down in the front.

hope this helps.
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pcelenta · Joined: 16 Feb 2007 Posts: 546 Location: long island,ny

guys the factory welt seals for the hood scoop were available in body color. some of the colors are NLA. Just last year I purchased the welt seals for the rear flares and for the hood scoop of my car direct from my porsche dealer who had them fedexed from germany. On the PET you can see the part numbers and the colors...I ordered mine in silver as it had been originally equiped with. The aftermarked GT Racing CGT hood scoop pictured here has the flange lip going the wrong way...on the originals it is hidden underneath the scoop and has holes to bolt it to the hood. the seal is sandwiched betwwen the hood and scoop before bolting it. regards, Paul (mystery CGT project pictures comming soon!)

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Vince Ponz · Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 3581 Location: Florida

I kind of like the black showing under the scoop. Brings attention to it.
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Carrera · Joined: 13 Nov 2009 Posts: 143 Location: Helsinki, Finland

reilly525i · Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 1:57 am Post subject:

while doing a very similar functioning scoop on my old mk2 I used a length of door edge trim. it looked perfect, gave you a good snug mating surface and cost about 4 dollars at pep boys. it looked exactly like that yellow cgt there.
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