The car is fitted with a turbo engine which has the carburettor sitting higher than a NA engine, so much so that a hole had to be cut in the engine lid. This I felt needed to be sorted out. I had considered a number of options. 1. Remove the turbo and just fit a standard system. Dismissed because a turbo set up would be a bit unusual, so I wanted to keep it. 2. Cut the middle part out of the engine cover and put more of an angle on it. This would probably have looked OKish, but I felt it would take a lot of work to get it right and once I started there would be no turning back. 3. Take a moulding off a Mini door pocket. This would have looked too big. 4. Over the Winter I had been looking out for cheap GRP bonnet scoops on Ebay and did buy one however it turned out to be a bit too small as it was. Having no other ideas I decided to try and adapt this scoop to fit. I was quite happy with the results and laminated it onto the car Click on the thumbnail
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