I've done this. i've crafted up my own little hood lift brackets. It was, for obvious reasons a test to see what kind of cooling effects, if any would come from this AND to see if it looked teh gay, it did AND to see if i would have hood flutter.

Well, at my normal highway cruise speed of 85 the hood looked like it was going to fly off from fluttering so much. The center area of the hood is no longer supported and it WILL flutter and shake, possibly putting so much strain on your brackets and flying off.

Also, you will no longer be able to use the "outside vent" feature of your logicon the only thing your going to smell is exhaust fumes.

so the moral? As stated by Mark, their unsafe, as stated by Santiago and Aaron, it just looks broken. and i'll have to second that.

-Markus

 

Looks like a few people have subscriptins to Super Street magazine. Look on pages 110-114. A company named aerodyna has made these hood props. www.aerodyne.net.

They say they do decrease the engine bay temperatures. But the FC has RUN racing cooling hood on it, which i imagine decreases the hood flutter.

But way to go. Trying to sell a product without the admins permission and ripping off someones idea

 

Well I know that vente4d hoods work well on our cars because the middle of the hood is a low pressure area at speed. But isn't the back actually a higher pressure area. This would be bringing back the airflow chart, I remember near the back of the hood and bottor of the windshield that the arrows were pointing towards(sp) the car. If so wouldn't this defeat the purpose of thie hood?
And nice post 89turbo

 

Safety First!

but in addition to that (as well as how it looks) it does screw up the aerodynamics of the car.

I think you would be better off just cutting a big hole in your stock hood.

 

I think that this thread should just be killed before too many young'ins decide to do this dumb *** mod. Anyone that does this mod and dies as a result will surly win a DARWIN AWARD.

 

all this bitching makes me wonder who ever thought up this waky hood prop idea in the first place. well it certainly wasnt an automotive engineer, thats for sure.

 

It's one of those "they do it in Japan so it must be really good" type of things. Bit like gauges in the glovebox and Pokemon...

 

Well, I just recently bought the Aerodyne lifters. If they manage to lower under-hood temps, they stay... and I find a way to eliminate the "decapitation" function. If they don't.... tootles lifters.

I don't think it makes the car look broken, and if it has a function... it's worth the change in form.

With what I have been doing to my car... scuff if you want... it's not like it's my only mod.

 

This is pointless, if your car is overheating there is probably something wrong with it. And it just looks dumb. My cars coolant never moves from 180-185 under normal driving. During "performance" driving the highest it has ever gotten was 205.

I hate all this Japan/JDM stuff. I prefer stuff that has a point and won't kill you, not "It's cool because it is from japan". I hate JDM.

How many people have a FC that actually overheats?

I am going to fix the hood on my Z tomorrow. I don't want to lose my head.

 

I think it looks lame, and you will prolly get people trying to flag you down to tell you yuor hood is up (not knowing they open from the front) but as for safety, I would be alot more worried about causing an accident on a freeway from it blowing off do to flutter then I ever would worry about decapitation. It will slide up and over the windshield/roof long before ot will go through glass at that angle. But then again, i just like to agrue ... all in all, stupid though.


-Robert

 

Closed before someone actually does this and kill themselves.