cwsttu

ok im going to be cutting up my hood in a bit here and making one for my FC convertible.... now the question i have is the vents.. it seems that lots of water will come inside the car but a lot of these hoods are just sold like this.....

BTW: mine will be just like this but the curves will be molded with straight lines as not to clash with the lines of the FC... so it will be like a TII scoop in the middle and a triangular section raised up for the vents


how do you prevent a lot of water from seeping into the engine bay... i dont magine it will hurt it but what are your opinions about it....

Bukwild

yeah you want reverse cuts though. You don't want the hole cut in the front. And yes water get it if you don't have a garage. And if its a daily driver don't do it.

cwsttu

well damn it is my daily and i dont have a garage....

ponykiller

But what about Bob?

Bukwild

yeah I wouldn't then

kiyoshi

I removed vented hood out of my mod list since mine is a daily driver.

YearsOfDecay

Well, You can make baffles for under the vents..., which is what the louver kits for the corvetts come with.

You want a tray for the water to lay in with a drain tube at the "deep" end that drains the water to the road. You either have to stand the tray off with spacers to allow the air in, or make it wiht one end open and an inclined bottom towards the drain.

Check this page out

http://www.greenwoodcorvettes.net/gc4/louvers.htm

cwsttu

hmmm thats a good idea but i do not understand how it works from that image... thanks for the link man ill try to work with that!!!

skunks

dont worry about the vents, no FD owner that i am aware of has every had a problem with a rain (also note, the rain guards which do come with the scoot hood are useless, i know from experience haha). if your scared of the rain, just go faster, the rain will just skip over the vents

BTW: The T2 scoop would look like *** to me on that hood,different strokes for different folks though

good luck and post pics, cant wait to see how it looks

cwsttu

im gonna do a smaller hood scoop.. not just a big *** TII hood scoop, pretty much what i was saying was im gonna make the scoop look like the turbo II scoop i.e. more square.. does that make sense?

Scott 89t2

just make the hole between the rad and the stock fan and the water just falls though and hits nothing.... that's where all the heat is anyways.

cwsttu

good point ill try to rig that up when im designing it.. thanks for all the replies

YearsOfDecay

Personally, I'm working on modifying my TII scoop insert as a reverse louvered baffle.

when you are driving, the air rushing over the louvers will create a vaccume and draw air up and out through the intercooler hole and the one right below the insert.

I'm going to put a baffle under the hole under the insert to keep water from getting onto the altenator if i happen to get caught in the rain and have to stop. (and wehn washing it!!)