In the process of building a single turbo kit and im looking for ideas on how to remove the factory rad. support and mount the radiator and intercooler..and if possible retain the factory hood latch. Anyone have any pics of some custom front mount setups with the front bumper off?

 

Search for Injected Performance's and Hal@IP's cars, they both have custom rad supports, not sure if they still utilize stock latch though.

 

Ive tried. Ive only found a few pictures online.

 

Hal's GT42 car utilizes the stock hood latch. My drag car utilizes hood pins as it is much cleaner without the hood release, etc.

Hal's front radiator support is considered our version 1 and version 2 is on the drag car below.

 

I wish I could see that! haha..you wouldnt happen to have an upclose view with the bumper off of hals would you?

 

Zoomed in, its much easier to see the tube support. Basically just recreating the big/wide radiator beam with a single tube. Any shop that makes roll cages could fab one up for you in a few hours. Same basic concept.

 

It is a pretty simple design except for integrating the radiator mounts, room for intercooler piping, headlight brackets, etc. The drag car can run a stock radiator support but this design makes it much easier if we need to pull the motor at a race. It takes a few bolts and the entire piece comes off. Also makes it easy to integrate Dzeus fasteners into the bumper compared to trying to attach them to the stock support.