Cut some holes in the front of the 911. Once again, had a buddy help. Bodyshop style reciprocating saws are 110% worth it.
The plan is to weld in a backplate, but I can't even mock one up until the carbon fiber frunk liner thingie gets here.
We also played around with a Jeep Cherokee radiator, trying to fit it in there in such a way that it'd work. I'm not sure it will. There's 29" of empty space right now. If I hack off the edges I left in, it can go as high as 31", which is the core width of the XJ rad, but I'd have to make all new bumper mounting brackets. There's exactly 35" between the two inside edges of the current bumper shock thingies. The XJ radiator width with end tanks is 34.9". I'm not against replacing them with some sheet metal, but I'm not exactly chomping at the bit to do it, either. The inlet and outlet locations are annoying and the overflow cap is in a terrible spot. Basically the inlet port would go right where the driver's bumper shock thing is.
Then there's all the stuff going on below the bumper. If I put the rad "inside" the front of the car, I can install the lower valance, but no fan or shroud. If I put it "in front of" the car, but behind the bumper, I've got room for fan + shroud, but can't install the lower valence.
Yeah, the XJ rad might get resold and a custom radiator designed instead. (I'm trying to avoid chopping up my fuel tank and doing the usual radiator layout.) I threw the bumper on to try and get a better feel for the free space:
Backplate's the next step, at any rate. Once I've got that in, I can lay down some rubberized undercoating and paint the frunk.
edit: I'm still waiting on the carbon fiber frunk liner I ordered in Feb. (Almost the end of April as of this edit.) Pelican told me that Rennline told them that there's an issue with the part. They're re-tooling, and it'll be 3-4 months before they get done from now - August, maybe? So I'm just gonna fiddle around and do stupid little things here and there until the new part arrives. It'll be a while before another decent update.