easy p-cheesy

I know that some of you guys have a debate about having a turbo hood on an N/A. As for me, I could care less. The hood would be on for a few weeks, until the TII is running. It just seems like such a waste to have a turbo hood laying around...

banzaitoyota

Its your car , if it floats your boat. Go for it, Just be ready for flack from some people. Its not like you bolted a Chrome 6 oz fire ext. to your passenger side window pillar

HALO

Heck yeah. I want one for my N/A. They just look better. It's not like anybody that isn't a RX7 enthusiast would know what was what.

Just my $0.02

Halo

West TX RX-7

Depends if want it or not. Sounds like more work that it's worth though if your TII gonna be back up soon. Also takin a chance moving the hood around of getting it beat up.

Snrub

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I use to like the TII style more. Since I've had the TII, I've started to like the N/A hood better. From a performance standpoint, the TII hood is usually lighter, but it increases the CD .01.

SoloIIdrift

Hell yeah! I have it on the N/A beast. Got it b/c the junkyard had it at a good price, and it took the place of the stock steel hood. Not only does it look nice, it saves weight and provides the engine with more air to keep it cool. Why not! Who cares about what other people say about "rice", the term is so over used half the people have no idea about the real gains from weight and cooling.

finky

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No. Rice is when you have a white hood on a silver car. HEHEHEHE just kidding.

zelgadiss-san

I'd be happy to trade you my N/A hood for your TII hood depending on condition/color ^_~

Snrub

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Okay, but you have to get me an Aluminum hood painted the same colour and make my IC front mounted.

SoloIIdrift

See perfect example right there! Idiot newbie ricer calling a powder blue Rx-7 silver!

Maxthe7man

I swapped on a steel TII hood onto my N/a, mostly cuz I have TII withdrawl symptoms while I go through the To4e transformation..Something about that bump when looking through the windshield..
But there is a monster change in the temps on the n/a, if it idled for a long time in traffic, it use to get hot, with the TII hood, it never goes over 1/2 which is pretty interesting, if you look at the car after driving, you can see the heat waves basically billowing out the hood scoop..Max

red xeven

I was going to just get custon reverse hood scoops to let the hot air out of my NA. What do you guys think about that.

SoloIIdrift

I think that would be cool as ****! RX7.com lists a few of them for like $245.

Barwick

*cough* no *cough* rice *cough*..

On my TurboII when I get a FMIC I'm actually going to REMOVE my TurboII hood in favor of a normal aluminum hood (or something lighter if the opportunity presents itself and it looks perfectly stock).

Not that I don't like the look of the hood, just that it'll more probably increase underhood temps for no good reason, and it's really not in use once I get a front mount, so in my book, that's rice.

Barwick

That's a good thought. It *could* do that, only problem is the location you put it at. Look at the flow chart for the FC to see where the high pressure areas are. And remember.. GM puts reverse hood scoops in a certain location on some cars for INTAKE. That should tell you something.

finky

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I am not exactly an "idiot newbie". I have a cheap monitor and it looks silver. peace.

RarestRX

Yo,


If you want to fool people into thinking you have a TII, go for it!! Every Civic hatch with a B16A that walks you will post, "D00dz, I smoked a Rx7 tubro ii!!" on ClubSI. Man, those plusses keep adding up! *cough*

https://www.rx7club.com/forum/showth...threadid=54955

And don't mind the poll, it was cooked early on.

KS
1989 GTUs "Why get a Turbo II when the hood is just as good?"

bouncer

I'm with Barwick, make it look like its n/a and slow but have some wicked beast underneath...its more fun that way

turbo eight-six

now I'm not a rotory specialist, but I do know that they tend to run alot hotter than most any piston motor. and if my sitting in traffic in my eight-six didn't prove to me how fast a car sitting still can get hot, then I know you want as much air to be able to flow from under the hood (moving or not). even if you are utilizing a FMIC I'm sure that the extra air from the tII hood hitting the intake track (which still sits under the scope, right?) can always be helpful. If I was going to change hoods, I would want to go with either a reverse vent or a drop-vent hood to aim in engine cooling. a NA hood isn't going to aid in cooling, and the hotter the motor, the less HP you're going to make.

scathcart

No kidding... especially since you misspelled rotary?

but I do know that they tend to run alot hotter than most any piston motor.

Not true at all. The coolant temperatuire should be about the same. Exhaust temperature is what is hotter.

and if my sitting in traffic in my eight-six didn't prove to me how fast a car sitting still can get hot, then I know you want as much air to be able to flow from under the hood (moving or not). even if you are utilizing a FMIC I'm sure that the extra air from the tII hood hitting the intake track (which still sits under the scope, right?) can always be helpful.
Which would be nice if air flowed into the hood. Remove the intercooler and.... guess what! Air flows out of the scoop.

If I was going to change hoods, I would want to go with either a reverse vent or a drop-vent hood to aim in engine cooling. a NA hood isn't going to aid in cooling, and the hotter the motor, the less HP you're going to make.
Agree on the hood choices, add a cowl vent hood in there as well.
As for an NA hood or a TII Hood, while... they won;t make a lick o' difference to engine temps.

As for "Hotter engines make less horsepower"... this is also not necessarily true. All motors have a temperature at which they make optimum power levels. The temps of which that most affect power output is cooler intake air charge temperature, rather than engine operating temperature.

easy p-cheesy

it just seemed like a waste to me to have a silver tII hood kickin' it in my garage when I have a silver RX7 that it could go on for a few weeks. I think I'll spend the time and energy that I would have spent on swapping hoods on getting the car together that much quicker.