TII without a hood
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TII without a hood
The question is. Can I drive the car without one? Obviously I cant in the rain. But on a sunny day, which we get quite often here in Florida, can I drive it without a hood. I just bought this turbo2 and the hood was robbed and replaced with a N/A hood. I wont have the cash for another hood for at least another month or so, so I'm kinda temporarily screwed.
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No its still got the stock top mount. The owner is a friend of mine and is buildin his N/a and replaced his old hood with the turbo hood. Yea, I desperatly need a hood. Bent or not I can do body work. I'll straighten it out if its not too bad.
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well it is, i go to school up here for body work, and just got a new hood from mazda REC. But you know if you need one for the mean time....... it is not fixable though,
I had first thought of filling in the bends with fiberglass, and making a mould with it to make a fiberglass hood, but thaT will be a later project.
I had first thought of filling in the bends with fiberglass, and making a mould with it to make a fiberglass hood, but thaT will be a later project.
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Well my TII is all stock right now and will be until I get it runnin the way I want. So it will be fine to run it without a hood? And with the N/A hood in the rain it will be fine? That sounds good. Chris that hood sounds pretty thrashed what happened to it?
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Unfortunatly no. Us Fort Walton crew pretty much keep to ourselves I guess you could say. maybe once my car is runnin right, I can talk the other guys into gettin off their asses and we can all get up and terrorize Holt with a shitload of 7s or somethin.
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most of the guys here don't like holt. But you can all come up here and chill with everyone here, how many rx'ers you got down there? There is a friggin ton here. not that its a bad thing, oh yea, and check out clubrx.org that is a site of some of the guys here in town, they've been at it for a while, i'm still pretty new.
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Yea I'm still pretty new myself. Lets see. theres mainly 3 of us. We got another guy, but he only comes round occasionaly and hes gotta 4.3 chevy V6 crammed under the hood not a rotary. And the rest of the people here with Rx7s arent really into them like we are. So theres not a lot but there are some us. But we will definatly have to get up some time.
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It causes some strange cooling and buffeting issues on the FC. I guess it would be OK if you kept it off the freeway and watched the temp gauge. However, I'm not sure if it is legal to drive without a hood in Florida because I was stopped by the police for this several years ago. Well, that and a noisy exhaust. 
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I know of one guy in my neighborhood w/ a badass muscle car that drives around w/ no hood
****, I can't remember what he has cause I haven't seen him driving around in a while. Nice car, now what the hell is it! lol
****, I can't remember what he has cause I haven't seen him driving around in a while. Nice car, now what the hell is it! lol
