David,
If you had a Bugeye, your sore back and the lumps on your head would change
your mind about the advantages of a front end tilt bonnet...'-) Get under a
rear hinged Bugeye bonnet next time you have a chance.
BTW, the other advantage is that the steel bonnets have a major amount of
their weight at the front. This causes a lot of stress at the apex of the
wheel arch and is partly responsible for the metal fatigues there. One
bonnet I have also failed at the brace between the headlights. Once these
fractures occur the bonnet gets very sloppy. You'll notice many Bugeyes
have a very wide gap at the A-post too. It took a lot of work to get the
correct gap back on mine, but it will be front hinged with gas struts and a
locking mechanism at the firewall.
My vintage race Bugeye has a fiberglass bonnet and hood pins just above the
rockers.
Gerard
At 8:15 AM -0500 1/7/01, DLancer7676@cs.com wrote:
>In a message dated 1/7/2001 2:09:19 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>cfchrist@earthlink.net writes:
>
><< it is way too simple to make a bugeye into a tilt front end! >>
>
>I don't have a bugeye, but I fail to see the advantage of a tilt front end.
>It seems to me this would make the engine more difficult to service since you
>would have the bulk of the bonnet up front in your way. The quarters are
>already cramped without adding the inconvenience of a bonnet blocking the
>front of the engine compartment. Maybe raising it at nighttime would give
>the CAT a good place to sleep?
>
>--David C.
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