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Genuine uk bonnet or fake??


Mace

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I recently bought a bodykitted n/a auto as a donor. It had a bonnet vent thought it was a nasty bodykit vent had mesh in it and everything, opened the bonnet and sound deadening didn't have a hole for the vent so I assumed it was stuck on ebay rubbish.. Sound deadening fell off today when I opened the bonnet and what do you know theres a hole under that vent. Is this a genuine UK bonnet? does the uk spec have mesh in it? and is it complete in the pics? i.e every bonnet vent i've had before had water diverters this doesn't seem to. It doesn't seem important maybe but I was on the lookout for a uk bonnet to rebuild my uk spec supra and in black too! I had it up for sale for £45 because I thought it was fake!

 

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Plenty of j spec bonnets have the UK spec scoop fitted so it having the scoop

is neither here nor there.

 

If its a genuine UK bonnet it will be pretty obvious as the holes in it

where the airflows through will be pressed out during its manufacture

and not cut out by someone afterwards.

 

The scoops parts can be bought individually, the metal under plate

in Guigsys photo is to direct the airflow to the snorkel which bolts

to the side of cylinder head, this has to be removed or modified if

you fit a strut brace

 

A better picture would help of the underside but it does

look like its been pressed out to me rather than cut out

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Also you should be able to tell by looking at the edges of the outer skin of the bonnet, when you take the vent of there shouldn't be sharp edges around the hole. The edges will be nice a neatly formed and bent round. I know as I've got an original vented bonnet on mine and that's what mines like :)

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Its a genuine one like you said the edges are perfect you'd never cut them like that. Need that plate now does anyone have a part no.? bet the plate costs me more than i get for my perfect j spec bonnet :rolleyes:

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