Installing hood vents - need measurements

Really just need the measurement from the edge of the hood (Bonnet) to the vents.  Maybe a side measurement too, while the tape is out.  Thanks!!

If you have an original steel hood, don't do it!

Those hibachi grill vents don't do anything to help cool your car.  They're merely a styling exercise to tell everyone your car isn't original.

I concur with Garth don't cut an original hood, search on boss wrench info I think and a good explanation is there.

I hear you guys.  If this hood was solid, no rust, no filler, no previous repair, it would NOT have vents cut into it.  This cat is far from original at this point.  Trying to do an "easy" fix to an area that has filler.

I'm not advocating cutting a virgin hood, but if it's a 1985 GT5 per the username then it should have hood vents!

Nope, not that one.  Sold that one to LMC a couple of years ago.

Be aware, the plastic OEM vents are not exactly the same size as the aftermarket aluminum vents. I know one GT5 owner who tried to replace his plastic vents with aluminum but found the aluminum vents were too small for the OEM holes in his hood. I also recall the aluminum vents came from the vendor with a template.   

If you bought the car as an investment and not to drive and make it your own, then maybe I would agree with Garth and Joe1974L, but even if only a styling exercise, I like it and did it to mine, and I still like it 15 years later.  I'm in the hospital today having surgery, but should be home tomorrow and will be happy to measure mine and post tomorrow.  

The way the original aluminum grills sit in the sheet metal you really need a perfect skin to make it work. The brackets are very minimal and held in place by very small screws threaded into a thin aluminum casting.

You may need to do some serious fabrication to make that work with a wrinkled skin?

If I had it to do over again, I would have left the hood stock.

Here are some pics that might help. Note that this is an original factory vented hood. 

Great.  Thanks for sharing.

piney posted:

Here are some pics that might help. Note that this is an original factory vented hood. 

The hood was changed to a later one at some point?

joules posted:

piney posted:

Here are some pics that might help. Note that this is an original factory vented hood. 

The hood was changed to a later one at some point?

Yes, I always wondered a bit about the hood, the fitment is also a bit off, but I went through old receipts from the factory for a bunch of stuff, and found the order. "Hood with air scoops" ordered in 1989 for (Italian Lira) LIT 866 250  

I always liked these type hood vents a bit better & look nice on a stock body car too, but to each his own when it comes to styling. But with these it’s more difficult to cook dogs rather than the grill style.