Mule's new hood
 

Changed over to steel to avoid any potential heat problems from the turbos.

that is awesome. :thumbsup: I love the vents in the hood. Thanks for sharing Charlie

just gets better!
 

This is my favourite! what a car! absolutely stunning!
what are those 2 aluminium looking cylinders on the firewall?
im drooling :hail:

That is a bitchin hood Charlie. :hail: How is it reinforced with part of the inner structure removed?

Mike

Looks great Charley. :) I wonder what the under hood temps will be like now compared to the old hood.......

Looks awesome Charley. I'm just wondering though. Are the two hood latches cable operated? Are they safety latched? I really like that setup. I'd love to see how that works. Insanely awesome as usual though. :yes:

Suck-up!

:D

Jody

Looks good. Whats the story on the hood latch system? The hood definetly looks cleaner with out the hood pins. Did wheel to wheel do the work?

LMAO!

clill
 

i am too wondering what make the hood is, or if the installer removed and re-braced the under side of the hood, it looks so good smoothed out, nice work
jake

The Mule looks even better! Who'd a thunk it?!? The hood looks awesome, cleaner and meaner! :thumbsup:, :evil: The latch system is trick!

The work was done at Wheel to Wheel. They took a NOS GM cowl hood and removed the inner structure to punch the louvers. Then they built their own structure. I think if you look close you can see tubing going down the center. Yes their are cables to the latches and safety catches. The two containers on the firewall are rad overflow and power steering.

Looks awesome Charlie!! It keeps getting better!! I used the same style latches on the 57. I didn't like the gold cad plating on mine so I sent them out & had them cad plated silver. Just a idea?? Who am I to criticize the baddest 69?? LOL???

Ha ! That was supposed to get done but didn't.

The hood has a round tube perimeter with a single tube down the center to add structure. Most of the factory bracing has been removed to clear the louvers and new latching system. The latches are a factory Audi part.

Kurt

PS: sorry about the gold Charley......

Welcome, Kurt. :thumbsup: I didn't realize you had registered here at Lateral-g.

That's a slick hood. Charley, did you guys monitor under hood temps before the louvered hood was added? I'm just curious how much of a change you've seen (or will see).

Looks great, great creativity in the louvers...and as an added plus, they can vent all of that high pressure air building up under there when the car hits 150+... :yes: :thumbsup:

You're killing us Charley
 

Just when you think the MULE is a done deal and cant get any better, Charley has one up'ed it again. :thumbsup: Hood is very sweet! I love the latch system. :hail:

Anybody wanna guess what Charley has in store for us next?

Yeah. I remember Mark talking about venting the hood for just that reason back when the car was just an EDP coated shell. Only the conversation centered around a slightly higher terminal velocity. :D

Looks cool https://lateral-g.net/forums/imag...es/slywink.gif

Wasn't it difficult to get the silverpaint right, I assume you didn't repaint the whole car.

Jan

Like 200? :D

Heh.... You should have seen a certain someone else in the chat last night. I ain't no suck-up!!!! I'm just a little crazy... :willy:

That you are my friend!

Jody

Still the baddest ass 69 on the planet. :hail:

Mostly just lurking! Cool site.


Kurt

You sure of that Jim? Preaching a different story last night there now weren't we, Pocohantas? :P

You okay today Jim? Whoever missed lasts night chat missed a good one. Summary of Jim. Charlie bought what??? :eek: :willy: :hail: It was a good time by all especially Jim. :thumbsup:


I still say BIG RED is the baddest and MULE is the coolest. Were gonna have to see some track time from the MULE to overthrow BIG RED as the baddest. hint. hint. :


Mike

edit: Scott, what this about too many smiles in message. You can't ever have enough. I had to eliminate half of them.

Does anyone know if any of the new stuff (turbos, hood) will be documented in PHR?

Hood
 

Very cool Charley. Awesome car.

I like that.. I may have to steal that idea.. lol..

:thumbsup:

"heat extractors".. finally a good use for all them louvering machines that were popular back in the day :)

Charlie...looks great. Did you have that hood sent up to Canada to be painted by the same company that did the Mule? I know silver is pretty hard to match although I think that color was a Chrysler color. Silbersee Silver or something like that. Maybe it's easier when you have a published formula.

Yeah...a kitchen sink. :P Seriously though, the only other major changes you could do would be a new paint scheme, something like Foose does (not that it needs it) or a full custom interior.

Other than that...it's perfect.

Well, it looks like he's gonna send it out to Japan where they are gonna turn it into the meanest looking transformer ever. In fact, it's supposedly just gonna transform into a giant robot, walk up to you (as you piss your pants in fear) and say "Jackass....", turn around, turn back into a Camaro, and drive away.

Wheel to Wheel did the paint in house. They are a pretty big outfit and do show cars for people like..ooooooooo GM... They said if I had the code they could make it match. .. I have nothing else planned that I want to do to the Mule. Foose style of paint and fancy interior is neat but that is not what the Mule is about.

Wow!! The Mule looks great! That turbo arrangement looks almost just like mine, but better. :hail:

It gets very hot in there. After I drive you could burn yourself on the hood hinges. I, too, started with a stock steel hood and removed the skeleton, or most of it. I think the high-tech look of that car makes the louvers completely cool. They'd look silly on my classicly painted car, though. :thumbsup:

OK, Its the BADDEST 69 CAMARO on the Planet

:hail: :hail: :hail: :hail:

Now that we have covered that, The 69 TA Vert is probably one of the rarest Muscle cars in the World. Us Chevrolet Guys whose first Girlfrends were Pontiacs understand. C'mon! :yes:

Maybe it's not the "baddest 69 Camaro on the planet".....but it's probably the baddest 69 Camaro in the world! :D Oh what the heck....the universe!

Big Red is pretty bad though. :_paranoid

Big Red is Bad...Mule is cool.... :willy:

I knew you were going to bring the vert up sooner than later lol :D

How about us 70 Chevelles? Kind of like the bully that steals the lunch money from the Camaros and Firebirds.... :D