View Poll Results: Is a TII hood on an NA FC Rice?
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TII Hood on NA FC: Rice or Not?
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Yo,
This guy knows his ****:
Kevin
1989 GTUs "Genius!"
This guy knows his ****:
Originally posted by RarestRX
Yo,
Nope, because the S5 tailights came on all models of the RX-7, not just the TII. It is not a unique performance styling element /that defines the model of car/.
When you see a TII, you know it's a TII because of the hoodscoop. That's what defines that model visually.
Another example, the Ram Air hood of the Pontiac Firehawk. It needs those twin nostrils to feed the high flow air intakes into the V-8. If you like the looks of that Ram Air hood, and stick it on your V-6 Firebird...that's Rice.
You're stealing a unique performance styling element and putting on a car /that can't back it up/. In other words, "All Show, no Go." Rice. It looks fast with the hood...but it isn't fast. Rice.
That's about as clear as I can make it.
Kevin
1989 GTUs "Hope that helps..."
Yo,
Nope, because the S5 tailights came on all models of the RX-7, not just the TII. It is not a unique performance styling element /that defines the model of car/.
When you see a TII, you know it's a TII because of the hoodscoop. That's what defines that model visually.
Another example, the Ram Air hood of the Pontiac Firehawk. It needs those twin nostrils to feed the high flow air intakes into the V-8. If you like the looks of that Ram Air hood, and stick it on your V-6 Firebird...that's Rice.
You're stealing a unique performance styling element and putting on a car /that can't back it up/. In other words, "All Show, no Go." Rice. It looks fast with the hood...but it isn't fast. Rice.
That's about as clear as I can make it.
Kevin
1989 GTUs "Hope that helps..."
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i put the t2 hood on my car because i think it really acents my re amemiya front end. i have had both the na hood and t2 hood on my car, and every one real who has seen my car, not you digital figments of my imagination on my computer, has said that the car rocks with the ts hood. id didnt do it to have a t2 appearence, i did it to match the rest of my car.
look here
http://www.geocities.com/b_timberlake/90RX7.html
on another note, if anyone is interested in my allminmum hood from my vert, its red, ill sell it for 200$. i live in New Jersey
look here
http://www.geocities.com/b_timberlake/90RX7.html
on another note, if anyone is interested in my allminmum hood from my vert, its red, ill sell it for 200$. i live in New Jersey
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I think that it is a nice looking upgrade for a NA and before I did my t2 swap my vert ran hot as hell right where the scoop is now. So hot that it would dry off rain water in that spot before anything else so you can't say that a vent in the top of the hood can't help with the cooling of a na. And it is not rice. Rice would be a shaker hood scoop bolted on to a na.
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Originally posted by RarestRX
Yo,
This guy knows his ****:
Kevin
1989 GTUs "Genius!"
Yo,
This guy knows his ****:
Kevin
1989 GTUs "Genius!"
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From: east brunswick, NJ
has anyone actually proved that the t2 hood on an n/a TRULY raises the underhood temps? i have the t2 hood on my vert, and im about to put a thermometer under my hood in various locations, and then put my n/a hood back on and measure the same areas. i cant see the t2 hood raising temps. and if it somehow does, perhaps ill route some air ducts to those areas, but the t2 hood just looks cooler. see?
http://www.geocities.com/b_timberlake/90RX7.html
http://www.geocities.com/b_timberlake/90RX7.html
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anyone want to buy my allmnimum vert hood? if anyone with the steel hood or who is stuck with the t2 hood, ill trade for the t2 hood, or sell my allmnimum hood for 200$. i live in new jersey and might even be able to deliver if close. jcina7@hotmail.com, or PM me
I'll be proud of my N/A when I don't have to go threw DEQ, and it has either a bridge or a P port. Other than that I am happy with it, ah hell I'm proud of my N/A, there's more to life than boost.
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Originally posted by jcina7
i put the t2 hood on my car because i think it really acents my re amemiya front end. i have had both the na hood and t2 hood on my car, and every one real who has seen my car, not you digital figments of my imagination on my computer, has said that the car rocks with the ts hood. id didnt do it to have a t2 appearence, i did it to match the rest of my car.
look here
http://www.geocities.com/b_timberlake/90RX7.html
on another note, if anyone is interested in my allminmum hood from my vert, its red, ill sell it for 200$. i live in New Jersey
i put the t2 hood on my car because i think it really acents my re amemiya front end. i have had both the na hood and t2 hood on my car, and every one real who has seen my car, not you digital figments of my imagination on my computer, has said that the car rocks with the ts hood. id didnt do it to have a t2 appearence, i did it to match the rest of my car.
look here
http://www.geocities.com/b_timberlake/90RX7.html
on another note, if anyone is interested in my allminmum hood from my vert, its red, ill sell it for 200$. i live in New Jersey
But, I have a t2 hood on my vert and it looks NICE NOT RICE. It was on the car when I baught it and I'm keepin it like that!
Last edited by Rx-7goblin; Apr 23, 2003 at 04:09 PM.
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definition of RICE:
rice (r'is) n. the grain from a plant grown in warm climates. -v.t. press into shreads.
-ric'er, n. a utensil for ricing potatoes, etc.
nope. nothing in websters about t2 hoods on an n/a.
rice (r'is) n. the grain from a plant grown in warm climates. -v.t. press into shreads.
-ric'er, n. a utensil for ricing potatoes, etc.
nope. nothing in websters about t2 hoods on an n/a.
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Yo,
When Meesto Spakaro says, "Rice!" people best be listenin'.
*grin*
This will be my longest running thread, I just know it.
Kevin
1989 GTUs "No Turbo? No scoop for you!"
When Meesto Spakaro says, "Rice!" people best be listenin'.
*grin*
This will be my longest running thread, I just know it.
Kevin
1989 GTUs "No Turbo? No scoop for you!"
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Is it true that n/a aluminium hoods are lighter than t11 aluminium hoods. I got a t11 engine which i put in an n/a and have cut a whole in the n/a aluminium hood and put my own bonet scoop. Is that ny good/
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id venture to say that if the na allumnimum hood is actually any lighter than the t2 hood, its only by a couple of ounces. it that is too much of a weight difference, then just take a **** before you get in your car to even out the added weight of the scoop