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Old 06-18-2020, 06:49 PM   #29 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Ecky View Post
Any pictures of the actual flaps you made? How big were your cutouts? How much overlap around the edges with the rubber?
Unfortunately I didn't think to take pictures while the radiator was out of the car, it was almost 4 AM by the time I was done. Basically what I did on the top and sides of the shroud is I drilled large holes and covered them with rubber flaps I cut out of an old bike inner tube and secured them with self tapping screws. I did this along the entire top of the shroud as well as on the sides. I wasn't able to do much on the front because there simply isn't a lot of shroud covering the radiator and the corners were too small to add flaps to. Also, as you can probably see, there is a bar that goes between the fans, so putting flaps behind that bar would have been pointless. But what I did is I used a thin sheet of flexible clear plastic to cover the holes and secured it with self tapping screws. I did this on the top part of the shroud between the 2 fans, but I couldn't on the bottom because of the support bar. I didn't cut too much out because I didn't want to weaken the shroud or suck the flaps in.
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