I'll take one when you have them.

 

i'd be interested to know which would be lighter. my money is on the FG

 

That does it! I'm gonna buy an FD and get away from all you cheap bastards!

*edit*
Except for Tinvestor, dude spends insane money on his FC OMG.

 

Those are awesome. I went on their website and was reading up and I really like them. I will be making my own fiberglass one piece front clip and will be needing good pins.

Heres the awesome part: I opened a pdf of a brochure and one page two they showed a few cars with these things on them and one drawing was an S4 FC with phone dials! I def have to get them now!

http://www.aerocatch.com/AeroCatch-Brochure.pdf

 

I just see no point in CF when the weight difference very small to FG AND the fact I'll be painting my hood the same color as the rest of the car. If it cracks, it is easily repairable, CF.... a little more elbow grease involved.

 

EJayCe is right. And that's our main reason behind not really pushing to make a CF hood. Like I said though, if the demand is there then we will make whatever you guys want. It's just that most FC owners will say "yeah I want a CF hood and the price isn't an issue." But when you ask for a deposit to make the hood for them they quit answering you back. You know?

 

I agree.A good quality FG hood at a decent price and you have a winner for the FC crowd.Make it look close to the "panspeed II" aero bonnett hood and you will sell a ton,even to cheap FC3S people...cheers

 

I hate you guys....

*stops PMing BoostedRex*


*on a serious note*
Zach any progress? Did you guys get the prototype ready for the mold last week? pics?

 

The hood is awaiting one final coat of primer, then it will be ready for the mold. I don't have pictures as of yet though. As soon as Mael can get them to me I will resize and post them up in here for you all to look at.

I wasn't trying to be an *** Juiceh, but I'm sure you've seen scenarios like that happen on here before. It's just that going out on a limb like that with something as expensive as a hood could really put a dent in our operating budget if people flaked out on it.

Zach

 

I know you weren't trying to be an ***. If you can even make 1 CF hood I won't flake on it! PM me if you want a deposit now.

Keep us posted.



True, the weight difference may be small, but I have a heavier vert. EVERY ammount of weight I can shed helps. Since my car is black I wouldn't paint the CF hood, if I did it would be a very light spray so that you could still see the weave up close. Like how some CF on showcars is painted.

 

Juiceh, PM'd you.

 

Any time frame for production?

 

The production hoods will be ready for sale 3 to 4 weeks after we start the molding process. So I would say that in 5 weeks from now we should have a minimum of 6 hoods ready to ship.

Zach

 

why is there a vent in the back of the hood?? and will this hood really make a diffrence in cooling? i putting my front mount in soon and i could use every ounce of air pull that i can get.

 

back vent is to release heat from turbo and yes this hood will make make a difference in cooling.

 

I want to see pics of progress and BTW you guys need a website

 

We know about needing a website. We are working on that right now actually. I hope to have progress pictures up soon. I do have to apologize for it taking so long to get pictures up. But I'm 100% sure that it will be worth the wait.

FC3S Nataku, yes this hood will make quite a difference. If you have any questions please feel free to PM me. That way I don't have to write a novel in this thread explaining the airlow properties of why this hood will work. But if you want to read back a couple of pages, I remember posting that up in here once already.

Zach

 

I could be wrong but how woulda a vent like that provide more cooling. If the fan is blowing towards the engine and that scoop is reversed then the hot air is just being pushed out of the enigine bay by the fan (This is good).

But how is this bringing in cold air from outside into the engine bay verseus a regular t2 hood?

If your driving foward the air is being pushed up and over the car not up down and foward becuase then this would be acting against the force of wind?

Looks purty though. Tyring to see the real fucntion of it


Jason NYC

 

its not like we're talking quantum physics here..."scoop is reversed then the hot air is just being pushed out of the enigine bay" this lowers underhood temperatures...therefore effectively helping keep your engine cooler...

 

hey not taht my two cents matters but you guys said you were going to put a lip on hood.. i dont think you guys should it messes up the lines of the hood to me.. besides it would be easier if you guys did it without.. your first hood with the camera phone is tops. i think you have a good thing going why be like someone else do your ownthing.. someone will buy it.. its not like panspeeds a car god if i recall seeing a panspeed full body kit it looked like someone put a dress on the rx7 it looked stupid. anyways you guys rock, keep on!

 

no we arent talking quantum physics, more along the lines of aerodynamics. The easiest way to think of this is a pressure differential. You are adding a flared lip to the front of the reverse scoop which accelerates the air flow as it goes up and over the flare. THat accelerated air flow now acts as a vacuum (just like acclerated air flow under a fully diffused undercariage race car that SUCKS it to the road).

So now you have a built up high pressure frontal area (ie the radiator FMIC etc etc) and now a low pressure vaccum like area over the hood which allows it to not only flow but the be sucked out.

hope that helped.

SMELL MY FACE!!

 

Hey man
i do like to be different however the function of the inverted vent needs a lip to create a low pressure zone other wise it would just not be as effective. I rather think my hood does not look like the panspeed hood as its more suttle and has sharper lines to it. the pic from my camera phone does indeed have the start of the lip on it its just hard to see with such a crappy pic.
anyway I have been slowed down on the hood a bit because of other pressing issues how ever im back on track and with luck will have the hood happyly primered and ready for the molding stage in the next few days I will try to email pics to zach on Mon-tuesday so they can be posted up.
Thanks for all the great coments and suport
Mael

 

Yusolo summed up the purpose of the lip on the front of the vent perfectly. If we didn't have a lip on it then the vent would be there for decoration only and would not be functional. 5one5 is dedicated to making products for the FC that are of the highest quality, 100% functional, and that still look good.

Zach

 

it acts as a vacuum, the more pressure you relieve, the more air tyhat can come in the front. Besides, it's not a ram air, you aren't trying to bring more cool air in, just let the hot air out, and by doing that you still let more air in anyway, these 2 additions work better than letting more cold air in without letting hot air out. Besides, air hitting an engine doen't do much especially on top og the engine, it works better in the intake, radiator, and intercooler all of which would be in the front of the car unless you run a stock TMIC, and if that was the case you wouldn't buy this hood.

 

correction

highest quality, 100% function and god damned gorgeous