Bonnet vents

[g8ape]

Ive been told that there are three different types of bonnet vents fitted to Chims, can anyone tell me what changes happened and when please

[Discopotatoes]

Not sure about 3 but defo 2.
Older bonnet with alloy struts and the newer bonnet with grp x braces

[TA14]

Looking at an early ish car: http://classifieds.pistonheads.com/classifieds/use... and a lateish car: http://classifieds.pistonheads.com/classifieds/use... or http://classifieds.pistonheads.com/classifieds/use... I can't tell any difference at all. Interested to see any variations.

[Discopotatoes]

There is lest grp in the older bonnet vents where the webs are

[Sardonicus]

I thought there was 2 types the later as bigger vents and no ali brace.

[raceboy]

I'd go for 2 types, as ever with TVR difficult to put an exact date on the change over but I'd guess about 'P' reg.

[g8ape]

Thanks very much for your comments, Ive just bought a replacement bonnet for my car and then a friend warned me about the different vents. Its difficult to see from ad pictures but it looked as if latter cars looking straight down on the bonnet had slightly more visable vent holes compaired to earlier cars where the top lip seems to cover them more.

[Tinker15]

If it helps the photo below shows the vents on my April 1998 Chimaera.

[estutjaweh]

I was at a meet here in Germany earlier in the year and noticed another difference near the wipers. The green bonnet (mine) is a '96 serpentine chimp, the blue bonnet a newer chimp (faces blanked out just in case )

[raceboy]

Not the worlds best picture....but the central car is an 'early' bonnet, the one to the right is a 'facelift' bonnet.



From the look of it they 'may' be interchangable.
The most obvious difference is the underside, an early bonnet has 2 alloy struts bolted across it at 45 degrees, the facelift bonnet has the extra strength moulded into the fibreglass.

Underside of an early bonnet....(the mesh isn't standard)


Underside of a facelift bonnet....

[TA14]

That's cleared up then thx all.

As for interchangability, I'm sure that they'll be as interchangable as any TVR bonnet is.

[g8ape]

Thanks very much!!! thats awesome info