sick hood scoops!!!!!!

[m90daytona]

what do you get when you combine a turbo coupe w/ a daytona?

[m90daytona]

turbo coupe guys would kill me for cutting up a perfectly good (and rare) turbo hood.
















i still need to tack weld it in and putty the seem but thats for another night.

[jory]

sweet!

[nemesismachine]

rice.

[Ondonti]

Tape is sexy.

[Avenger]

"rare" turbo hood? I see the things all the time, every other T-bird competing at National Trails has that hood.

[m90daytona]

Quote:

Originally Posted by nemesismachine rice.

why is it rice? the s/c setup i am using produces alot of heat. in fact it produces so much heat that if i push it i can cuase case distortion and ruin my charger. the hood scoops are functional and will help cool the s/c and make it more reliable. plus, it will flow past the plenum, reducing engine compartment heat and intake charge temperature that will result in greater hp gains. the scoops dont stick up or stick out. they help w/ reliability and hp so if thats rice then i guess a dodge viper and Z06 is rice too? if you dont like something that doesnt mean its rice. functional hood scoops have been around long before rice burners.

[roguetrip]

nemesismachine loves raising the rice flag, lol

I like it, wish i had cutting skills like that, but is the hood gonna close ok with the upper plenum installed?

[m90daytona]

Quote:

Originally Posted by roguetrip nemesismachine loves raising the rice flag, lol I like it, wish i had cutting skills like that, but is the hood gonna close ok with the upper plenum installed?

yeah, actually looks like i still have an inch or 2 left. the nice thing about the daytona hood is that it has 2 "natural bulges" that come down each side which made clearance problems no problem at all.

[charger R/T]

I like it.
Tim

[GLHNSLHT2]

The problem is you're pressurizing the engine bay now. That keeps air from moving through the rad and will hurt your cooling system and downforce generated. Looks good though, but they need to go somewhere like the air intake.

[m90daytona]

Quote:

Originally Posted by GLHNSLHT2 The problem is you're pressurizing the engine bay now. That keeps air from moving through the rad and will hurt your cooling system and downforce generated. Looks good though, but they need to go somewhere like the air intake.

i cut the rear weatherstrip out so the air flows through the engine bay. theirs no use pushing air in if you cant get it out.

[nemesismachine]

Quote:

Originally Posted by roguetrip nemesismachine loves raising the rice flag, lol I like it, wish i had cutting skills like that, but is the hood gonna close ok with the upper plenum installed?

Im only playing around, i just like the clean look.

[440trk]

Quote:

Originally Posted by GLHNSLHT2 The problem is you're pressurizing the engine bay now. That keeps air from moving through the rad and will hurt your cooling system and downforce generated. Looks good though, but they need to go somewhere like the air intake.

Nope. How can you pressurize the under hood area when you have 2 little holes in the hood letting air in and one BIG hole in the underside? If anything, that hood should help cooling just a wee bit. Besides, there is a dead boundary layer of air just above the hood line on any car. (watch some wind tunnel testing, and you'll see what I mean) Air will not be FORCED into those inlets, more so, it will be sucked in by the pressure differential ABOVE the openings. For a hood scoop to have air FORCED into it, the scoop opening must be above this boundary layer, and placed into the actual airflow over the hood.

Those vents should actually allow a little cooler air to flow over the engine, and should not impact radiator/cooling negatively at all.

[xtrempickup]

personally if i ever do my gen 3 hood, im building the stock bulges up and then cutting them out like a Trans Am or a Grand Am Gt