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Number: 4756
From: "negusm"
Date: Mon Mar 15, 2004  1:50 pm
Subject: Re: [ASC McLaren ] '84 hood

Body:
Re: [ASC McLaren ] '84 hood

Exactly, thats why I couldn't figure out what all you people were
seeing as I was looking for NACA teardrop thingies.

-Mike



--- In ascmclaren@yahoogroups.com, "Brent Abrams" <babrams@l...>
wrote:
> Thanks Sandy, sorry about the confusion I probably caused most of
it when I
> assumed that they were actual NACA ducts.
> I'm a little relieved but on the other hand a little disappointed
too, my
> "vision" of the hood was having the original rectangle holes
filled in and 2
> of the NACA teardrop ducts put in that area or maybe a total of 3
of them
> with one in the center and 2 more farther back in the hood.
> Since it appears that the correct scoops go more or less in place
of the
> original grills then it would be much easier to duplicate the look.
>
> I can also understand why they discontinued doing them because of
what Sandy
> pointed out, they would just have a puddle of water sitting in
there when it
> rained.
>
> Brent
>
>
> Brent
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sandy Block" <cigarsandy@c...>
> To: <ascmclaren@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 1:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [ASC McLaren ] '84 hood
>
>
> > Yes, Brent, that is a good description. Tom S. will be getting
the
> > photos I sent to him tomorrow, Tuesday the 16th, look for them
under
> > Links >>> Capri Hatchback.
> >
> > S A N D Y
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >

--- In ascmclaren@yahoogroups.com, "Brent Abrams" <babrams@l...>
> > wrote:
> > > That's what I thought too.
> > >
> > > Sandy had described them as "NASA-type" hood scoops so assumed
he
> > was
> > > referring to the teardrop shaped NACA ducts that are commonly
miss-
> > labled as
> > > NASA ducts.
> > >
> > > If the picture of the car in the poster that Mike just bought
has
> > the proper
> > > '84 style air-ducts in the hood then it appears to me that the
air-
> > ducts in
> > > question are rectangular shaped and were inserted into the
hood in
> > place of
> > > the factory Capri "vents" or "grilles"
> > > This would make more sense to me now because if the other photo
> > that Mike
> > > had posted of the direct front end had these rectangle air-
ducts in
> > it, then
> > > I can kind of see how they could be there.
> > >
> > > For those who know, would this be a correct description?
> > >
> > > "The '84 Coupe hood "scoops" or "air-ducts" are RECTANGULAR in
> > shape and are
> > > inserted into the hood in place of the two factory Capri's
> > hood "grills" or
> > > "vents".
> > >
> > > Brent
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Tom G" <speedracer815@y...>
> > > To: <ascmclaren@yahoogroups.com>
> > > Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 9:57 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [ASC McLaren ] '84 hood
> > >
> > >
> > > The ducts in the poster definitley look more like
> > > "scoops" than our stock Capri grills. But they don't
> > > appear to have the shape of NACA ducts.
> > >
> > > Tom G.
> > >
> > >
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