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hood scoop advice
Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 2:24 pm
by mcgusto82
ok, i've decided to add a short air intake. along with a small functional hood scoop. so far, i've looked at over 15 pages of "hood scoop" everything i find is HUGE. i want it small enough to fit between the driver's side hood crease and fender. functional, nah mean???anyways.. any advice on whre i could find such a contraption??
Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 3:08 pm
by northvibe
get the ram air hood, it puts all the air to that spot the short ram air intake is!
Re: hood scoop advice (mcgusto82)
Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 5:36 pm
by ColonelPanic
I don't know, but you sound like you're on the right track. Do make it functional, which generally means tying said hood scoop directly into your engine's air intake system. Northvibe's idea sounds good to me. Find that hood and make it work. (Does SLP still make that? Last I heard they did not..)
Re: hood scoop advice (mcgusto82)
Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 9:54 pm
by BlueCrush
SLP has discontinued their hood. RK Sport has a fiberglass ram air hood for $595 at
http://www.rksport.com
Re: hood scoop advice (BlueCrush)
Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 12:21 am
by mcgusto82
i don't like it. The one on their website has a center high mounted scoop. i want one on the side. i'll make a paint mock up. i also don't want to pay ubbers amounts of money for a whole new hood. i'm cheap and resourcefull.
Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 3:13 am
by northvibe
Re: (northvibe)
Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 8:56 am
by mcgusto82
yeah, That looks great!! too bad there isn't any hardware out there to make this. but yeah, i want that hood scoop. any ideas on where there might be one for graps??
Re: (mcgusto82)
Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 9:40 am
by mcgusto82
ok, this is what i want to do with the short air intake.a small to medium plastic paint bucket. it can be painted and cut apropiately. easily.
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Re: (mcgusto82)
Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 9:43 am
by mcgusto82
this is what i think the hood could look like.made some measurements, the scoop would need to be around 10 x 11.
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 10:40 am
by Celtic_Curse
Try this go to the junk yard and find yourself an old Turbo sprint. Remove the hood scoop (it's small enough it mught serve your purpose), have the body shop mold, paint and cut it into your hood. That would probably get you the look of the GT-R without all the fabrication.
Re: (Celtic_Curse)
Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 2:43 pm
by mcgusto82
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors...%3AITi bought this a days ago. i can rivet it to the hood, and double side glue it. i think it should be a pretty cut and dry mod. i already have an outline set up on the hood (inside).
Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 5:33 am
by Celtic_Curse
Thats going to be big kinda like mine. Have you received it yet? I'm not sure riveting it to the hood is going to be good look, does it have screw holes underneath?
Re: (Celtic_Curse)
Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 11:00 am
by mcgusto82
since it uses double sided tape. i'm sure it has a horizontal surface underneath. i can drill the holes to the hood going into the scoop. i do plan on using the doublew sided tape too. the rivets are for just in case. i don't want my scoop to fly off the car at 80 mph.
Re: (mcgusto82)
Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 11:01 am
by mcgusto82
actually the scoop is small. it's about 6.5" at it's widest. and 11" at it's longest.if i'm not mistaking, the one you have is about 11" wide and 15" long.if you got yours from ebay.
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 2:27 pm
by Celtic_Curse
Mine came off a VIS Carbon Fibre Hood for a new gen Celica it's completely bolted down to the hood.