deanmcreynolds26
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My mate wants to take away the bonnet cable and open the bonnet through a solenoid and once he presses it the bonnet will slowly jus come up to show off his 2 litre 
im liking this idea obviously hes gona have to have a release of some sort incase battery go's wonky! has anyone ever done this b4? hints or tips would be appreciated! 
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Graham
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have to be some sort of hydraulics to lift that kinda weight tho surely.
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ed
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Speak to Midas Styling, they done the same thing to a Pug - but its on the Lambo door conversion... They can probably point you in the right direction on where to get the bits from to do the bonnet...
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the_legend_of_yrag
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i asked rich at midas about this, and he said it would be a bad idea really, as although the lifters are strong if you accidently pop it at 100mph it's just gunna lift up into your windscreen
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deanmcreynolds26
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surely if u can still use the existing clip to hold it down it would be ok 
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RobHayes
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doesnt that defeat the object of having a bonnet that opens at touch of a button or by remote
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deanmcreynolds26
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i mean whilst ur driving the clip holds the bonnet shut!
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Graham
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yeh i get what u mean, so say you...
1.push a button to pop the release clip
2.push a second button to pop the bonnet up so the lifters can take action.
3.hyrdaulics lifters slowly lift the bonnet into the air.
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M2RTY
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its very easy
thats what solinoids are made for
ill show u sometime if ure at a show
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deanmcreynolds26
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nice one! ill look out for ya at max power if ur their and showing 
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by the_legend_of_yrag
i asked rich at midas about this, and he said it would be a bad idea really, as although the lifters are strong if you accidently pop it at 100mph it's just gunna lift up into your windscreen
yea good point, but it can easierly be solved....like wiring the handbreak cable (ie: the connection you would use for motorised HU screens) to the circuit. That way, you have to have the handbreak on before you can lift the bonnet Not hard to do and would be on the button side of stuff 
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5doormodder
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hummm..... I have some INXX chrome bonner lifters and if you let go of them they go up really really powerfuly, you have to hold the bonnet while it goes up, otherwise it wacks back and my corsa almost does a backflip, lol !
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Graham
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^^yeh but i also have these and they arnt powerful enough to lift them selfs up from the moment the bonnet pops.
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