American Car Craft Corvette Hood Panel Polished with C6 Crossed Flags & Corvette Script 2Pc 2005-2013 C6 - Manual (Page 2)

Your new hood panel inserts are a unique accessory designed to set
into the factory hood and offer you a beautiful option to enhance your
engine bay not offered by any other manufacturer. In the next step by
step instructions you will learn how to install this accessory and
transform your C-6 into a truly special show car.
Your new panels come to you with a protective liner.
Do not remove liner until installation is complete.
1. The first step will be to remove the factory thermal barrier pad by detaching all
of the large black plastic fasteners and remove the pad. Your new stainless hood
panels will provide an adequate thermal barrier.
REMOVAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CORVETTE HOOD LAMP
One of the first things to consider when applying the ACC hood panel kits is if you really
want to leave the factory hood lamp in place. Although it is not necessary to remove it for
the installation of your stainless panels it is recommended because the lamp itself is not
very good looking or efficient and the wire harness leading up the lamp is out in the open
and will really distract from the overall look of your new custom panel. Because of this
we recommend that it be removed.
The first step will be to locate the harness connector and separate the lamp from the car.
This can easily be done by removing the plastic locking pin or sometimes it's just a
matter of unlatching the two parts from each other. The wire harness is pushed into the
hood at several locations along the route to the lamp. These will need to be forcibly
pulled out of the attachment locations. The last thing to do would be to drill out the two
rivets securing the lamp to the hood. Using the appropriate drill bit carefully drill into the
head of the rivets so that you can remove the head and detach the lamp. You may have to
drill further to remove the rivet completely from the two locations. Be very careful not to
poke the outer skin of the hood itself.
2. You have been provided with a small scotch pad. Use this pad to scuff the
entire area of both insets including the 1” border. This will create a nice bondable
surface. Once you have scuffed both areas you will need to thoroughly clean the
surfaces by scrubbing them with rubbing alcohol and wiping off any and all
residues with paper towels.
3. You will notice that each of the two hood insets contain a 1’’ border. This inner
border will need to be specially treated by swiping them once with the adhesive
promoter provided. This will provide an accelerated bondable surface for the