hey i saw someone w a silver FC (i think on this forum) and they had the back of the hood propped up a bit while it was closed, you kno drift style. i was wondering how you did that? anyone know? i tried to search for it but i couldnt find it. thanks!

 

search user name junpower i believe.

 

ok thanks! i remember it was in a post where he took a pic of his silver FD next to 2 other exotics and he had black and red rims. then he showed a pic of his FC.

 

nope thats not JUNPOWER...that's DEVILFC.. Do a search..there is a thread about this just a while ago...
Its basically a spacer that creats the gap.. some people dont like the idea but i think i will be doing that mod soon.. I preffer functionality over looks..

 

https://www.rx7club.com/forum/showth...hreadid=323276

here ya go..i did the search for you!

 

There is also the safety issue in a collision. Decapitation anyone?

 

yea i was thinkin the same thing though i saw some jkit somwhere that claimed it was strong enough too jus crumple... but i dont know where though i like the look and performance aspect of it

 

I like the way it looks on a FB but, I guess there is still the safety issue.

 

hey thanks!

dont you think if you got in an accident that it would just hit the widshiels, break it and then continue sliding upwards over the car instead of decapitating you...? but i never really thought of the safty issue(s) with it.

 

if youre concerned about the safety at all, would you really want to risk that? i haven't seen how people do it, so i couldnt really *guess* what the hood would do if impacted. but if i were to worry at all, i wouldnt want to guess that the hood would slide up the window, not through. i dont think the hood would move much as is, nor am i convinced this mod is worth anything.

 

this whole issue can b solved with hood pins :P

 

the thingies i have are 2 1/4" thick plates with 4 holes in them, 2 of them tapped. basically the plate bolts up to the factory hood bolts, and then the other holes bolt up to the holes on the car side where the hood normally connects. think that would really cause a safety issue?

 

PM JunpoweR.....here is a pic of it on his old GTUs

 

doesnt sound like it would but i put a disclaimer on this lol saying its not my fault if u take my word and get capped and ur fam comes back too sue me (u cant cause ur dead and headless) lol ohh yeah and ur head rolled away and they couldnt find it so they made it out of wax for your funeral in august and it melted during the viewing jus thought id let u know lol

 

And what's the point of doing this?

 

duh, cause it matches the lazy eyes!

 

it supposedly draws more air through the engine bay kind of like how it gets really windy in the cabin if you open your windows and the sunroof. The air goes in and has a place to go out thus increasing airflow. No idea if this 'mod' actually increases airflow though.

 

drift style, jdm y0

 

 

There's nothing "drift style" about that. Why does everyone think if they've see a particular mod a a car that happened to be drifting, it must be "drift style"? This is a very old trick that smart people don't do, because it doesn't improve cooling and is potentially dangerous. Of course it sounds like this has nothing to do with cooling and you just want "the look"...

Er, no. In a collision, the whole front of the car moves back, not just the bonnet.

 

er, i dont like that hood, it looks broken... lazy eyes dont really look broken, especially c ompared to that gay hood, but thats only my opinion. people may like it

 

It looks like a ghetto attempt at a reverse-cowl type thing, but I doubt it does anything except make the car look even more broken then sleepy-eyes.

 

yeah it does look kinda broken...and i have them on my car and it looks just like that too. i'd take them off...but i'm lazy and the damn hood weighs like 55lbs and its a royal bitch to do alone. gottem free and figured i'd try them out and they stayed on afterwords. noticed absolutely no difference in anything with them on.

 

Oh yes they do...

 

i said it was 'drift style' because thats what someone told me.

everyone doesnt have to get all antsy about this kinda stuff. its opinion. if i want to mod my car one way and you want to do it another way then thats cool. and if i want to leave it bone stock then same thing. i was just asking about it.