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If you want a cheap way to get some of the heat from out of your engine compartment, adding hood spacers is one possible option, and it is very easy to do. Here’s what you need:

• 6″ of 3/4″ square tube
  
• 4 grade 8.8 screws m8×40mm
  
• 5/16″ drill bit
  

First get all your materials:

Then you need to cut the 3/4″ square tube into 2 pieces that are 3″ in length:

Next you need to drill two 5/16″ holes that are 50mm apart, and centered on the tube:

Here’s how your hood mounts:

You can add the spacers yourself by doing only one side at a time. In order to keep control of the hood with one side unbolted, I used a piece of wood to stabilize it:

Then install the new spacers with the new bolts and tighten them up:

…and now you have hood spacers to allow heat out of the engine compartment. Don’t forget to paint them! (I painted them after checking their fit):

Just some pictures of the hood spacers I built today, which should help get some of the heat out from under the hood when I am on the trail and not moving very fast.

Just some square tube and bolts

before the spacer

After the spacer

The finished product