"Clean Shield" for your Bottom Feeder

[Ken]

Vette magazine has an article on installing a screen over the opening at the air inlet for the C4 and C5 Corvettes. The article focuses on installing the shield on a C5 but it appears as though it can be used on a C4 as well.

I know some of you have already done this, but no one has ever shown a picture before; now I have.

 

[reefdiver]

Ken, are you sure that can be used on a C4? I read the article,but didn't see any mention of it being for a C4. Also....don't you think that a little DIY contraption could be made in your own garage?After all, it really is only a piece of metal mesh......and that would cost a lot less than $100. :confused ..just curious?

 

[Ken]

... don't you think that a little DIY contraption could be made in your own garage? ... and that would cost a lot less than $100

Oh hell yeah, we could do it for a lot less! I'm a-gonna do it myself; I just about **** when I saw that price! Talk about gouging!! :L

I just wanted to show a picture.

_ken

 

[67HEAVEN]

Vette magazine has an article on installing a screen over the opening at the air inlet for the C4 and C5 Corvettes. The article focuses on installing the shield on a C5 but it appears as though it can be used on a C4 as well.

I know some of you have already done this, but no one has ever shown a picture before; now I have.

What's the screen for, Ken? Keeps out Mustangs?

 

[Ken]

Funny, the article states...

The downside of being a bottom feeder is that just about any debris that can be found on a public thoroughfare or race track - dirt, papers, plastic bags and sheets, and small road kill...

 

[reefdiver]

What's the screen for, Ken? Keeps out Mustangs?

:L

 

[reefdiver]

Oh hell yeah, we could do it for a lot less! I'm a-gonna do it myself; I just about **** when I saw that price! Talk about gouging!! :L

I just wanted to show a picture.

_ken

Speaking of gouging......why is it that you can have 2 identical pieces of plastic (or anything for that matter)........1 has nothing written on it...the other has Corvette...the plain one costs $1.00....the one with Corvette on it costs $50.00? :eyerole

 

[RonJ]

If a person was to make his own garbage collector using the galvanized mesh you see in hardware stores, would 1/4" mesh be enough or should it be 1/2"?
Ron ... :confused

 

[Ken]

Myself, I'd use the largest holes possible so as to not decrease the air flow too much. I'd mainly just want to keep the larger items out of that area, such as the Mustangs Bob spoke of. :L

_ken

 

[WhalePirot]

Methinks the largest hole-to-screen surface area ratio is best, ala Ken's big hole comment. It'd be nice to keep leaves and cig butts out, which plague drivers in some parts of the country. A medium weight mesh that is rigid enough to be formed into a permanent shape seems about right.

I have paid too much for some of this plastic Vette stuff and found it little better than trash. The mirror wind wedges from MidAmerica come to mind; mine now resting in a future archeological site.

 

[unleadedbrew]

Page 5 or 6 on this forum has threads about the C4 Kit or do-it-yourselfer from the hardware store.

_Gordon

 

[Ken]

I'm aware of that Gordon, I just wanted to give a heads-up on the article in Vette.

_ken

 

[elkabong]

Try galvanized hardware cloth from like Home Depot. You can get it in 1/2", 1/4", 1/8". If I remember a roll is about $12.

 

[WhalePirot]

I looked. No find. link to the DIY page?
thanks.