Beck Louvered Deck Lid

Oooooo..........

Where's Lane?

DUBSTUB, Can you get me a shipping estimate to 53017?

Hmmm...

What mods need to be done to fit a CMC? If it isn't too difficult, I'll take it.

Rich - Online estimates are $57 for UPS and $27 for USPS. I am estimating size and weight. I will get it packaged tomorrow and get a better estimate.

56Speedster - I have no idea what the CMC brackets look like. As you can see in the photo, there are four holes for the Beck brackets. I am not sure what you would have to do, nor do I know if the decklid opening is the same size. You would more than likely have to do some shaping to make it fit right. If still interested, I can get some measurements. Click on dubstub and get my email address.

Email sent.

Happy New Year!

Rich

56Speedster has decided against the deck-lid. $244 will get it to your door in 53017. You can pay by Pay_Pal. Click on DUBSTUB to get my email address.

Warren

Hey Rich

Are you still interested? For an additional $100 I will paint it your color if you send me the paint code. A response would be appreciated.

Thanks, Warren

Warren, sorry, I have been sending dialogue messages to you. Or maybe you are responding to those and my worries that I mentioned about paint matches and finish matches. That's my major concern. That, and after mulling this over, though I would like to get my hands on the hood, I think spending some of my money on some other upgrades right now might be more prudent for me. Rich

I would love it Warren, but it's not in my budget at the moment.

No worries guys, I understand the pocket book is thin after the holdiays. Rich, apparently I do not see dialogue messages. I have a banner that says my web browser doesn't support the software that I am running, Explorer 9. Theron was going to check into this, but with my lack of participation here, I didn't follow up.

Warren, take it back out to the garage, bury it under the weed whacker etc. and post it again in another year or so...PLEASE. At the very least, I'll know who to call first.

If you would be interested in $225 shipped I will take it. I've got a lot of spare time on my hands right now and it could be worth the effort of making it fit as I've wanted a louvered lid for quite a while. If you are interested send me your Paypal address and I will pay you right away.

SOLD!

Show photos when you get it all done. Definitely having fun in your garage.

Well, at least we all now know that one more Beck part fits a CMC.  

Lane better watch his car carefully at the next Carlisle...

I'm jus' sayin............

Will do. I made a new firewall out of 20 gauge stainless and decided to make new brackets to mount to it for the deck lid as well. Figured while I'm at it I might as well add the gas prop modification to open the lid. Installed it today but the prop is too strong (30#). It opens perfectly but when closed, it pushes up on the deck lid at bit so I will try a 10# and 15# prop to see how they perform.

Please let know what gas strut you end with.

Sure will. The 16 inch 30 pound strut is too strong with the lid closed though it does open perfectly.

I finally got around to painting the louvered deck lid and buffed, polished and reinstalled it today. I ended up using a 13 inch, 45 psi gas strut mounted at the passenger side hinge. I tried a 30 pound as well but it wouldn't lift it up. It would hold it up but the 45 pounder opens it up nicely. I could have used 2 30 pounders but I don't have room on the driver's side to install it due to my recent upgrades to my turbo system that include a water-to-air intercooler. I plan to make a thread to show what I've done.

At any rate, if I posted this correctly, here are pics of the louvered lid, non-louvered lid and gas strut installed on the car.

Previously you said the 16" 30# strut was too strong and pushed the lid up when closed.

Is this no longer a problem because of the changed angle of the shorter 13" strut?

So the louvers are just on top - they don't add to venting?  I do like the look - thxs for posting.

Yes sir. The new angle does not affect the closed lid and works like a charm. I saw this installation on Mango Smoothies ride and decided to try it myself. His setup uses 2 struts but I have no clue what length (would assume the same) or strength.

They are open louvers so they do add to the venting and with the big turbocharger under the lid, I can use all of the venting I can get. To see the open louvers, see dubstubs picture in the first post above when the lid was still silver.

With the installation of the charge cooler and super squish pistons, I'm planning on pushing in excess of 20psi boost so the cooler it is under there, the better.

That sure would have looked great on my car...I almost pulled the trigger on it if you recall. But, it looks real swell on yours now, "56Speedster" (sure wish we could use each other's names, it seems so impersonal). Congrats!

I do recall and thanks. My name is Jimmy but I sometimes go by Jim, James, Jimbo or even Jaime (pronounced hymie) but I prefer Jimmy as Jim and James are too grown up sounding or too old for me and as I'm a young 46, I refuse to grow up or grow old. (at least for now)

Jimmy

DANG, Jimmy! That looks pretty cool! Nice job. 

Agreed I love the look. I could see that on my CMC as well.

Looks really good Jimmy. Nice job!

And Rich; if we ended our posts as we would a letter with our first names, it wouldn't take long to figure out who's who. Al

(see what I did at the end, there? just like that..)

Excellent idea, Al!

And Jimmy- thanks for the update. It looks really, really cool.

Stan

True, "ALB", Al, but my name is always right there on the left under my picture (true, that's not me). but I suppose I could take the extra step to sign all my posts, Rich

And I thought you were a handsome devil. Al

Thanks for all of the compliments. It definitely took me longer to get my car back on the road than I had expected. It went down in November when I lost 3rd gear and barely hit the road again yesterday. Painting the deck lid took less than 2 hours from start to finish because I received it in great condition from Warren. Wetsanding, buffing and polishing took another hour and really wouldn't have been necessary if I could paint like the pros do. Luckily I can wetsand, buff and polish which gives me that show car finish.

I'll get the engine good and warm this afternoon and hit my favorite long hill to get the rings seated. Afterwards (probably tomorrow) I'm planning on hooking up the laptop and hitting a few isolated roads to do some datalogging and tuning. There shouldn't be many if any adjustments that need to be made since the only upgrade I made inside the engine was adding the super squish pistons but since I raised the compression from 8.6 to 9.2:1, I want to make sure that the air fuel ratio and timing are still in check and since I removed the intake and reinstalled it, I'll also need to recalibrate the throttle position sensor. I will most likely let the TunerStudio software do the tuning while I drive and then compare the tune to my most recent one and make any necessary changes.

As the weather is getting nice here, this will become my daily driver until some time in November.

Jimmy

One last photo of what lies beneath the louvered panel - a fuel injected, turbocharged 2276.

niiiiiiiice

Jimmy, I'm really interested in adding a gas strut like yours.

Can you post pictures and description of how you attached each end.

Thank you very much.

I sure will Michael but it will be Monday before I can get to it.

Have a great weekend!

Jimmy

Do you have a price for the old CMC lid?   ~Alan  drclockATpa.net