I personally like the feed hood. Looks stock with the 2 vents towards the back..

I figure the best hood for cooling I believe has that scoop in the front center but not a fan of the look...

In the market for a new hood myself and I'm kinda going towards feed style from shine auto

 

My dream hood is the Mazdaspeed A-Spec hood.

 

RE Amemiya AD9 hood and painted to match the car. I am also a fan of the ViS scoot type hood

 

Mazdaspeed A-Spec hood for sure.

 

Mazdaspeed for the win. Either the A spec or the R spec. A little biased though. Still think they’re the best hoods.

 

Nicely modified OEM for single turbo cooling

 

That don't look to bad. Got a different angle?

 

An issue I have is not every hood looks good on every color car.. I just saw this one and seeing it on a yellow fd helps.. I actually really like this without the scoop in the front center... I cant seem to find a yellow fd with the feed hood that's also painted yellow instead of carbon fiber or black on a yellow fd




I can see myself getting this one or the feed....

The mazdaspeeds aren't bad either

Another question is what do you do about rain? I know some hoods you can purchase a cover for under the hood to cover the vents from having water come in. If they don't make them for what ever style hood how would you go about making it?

 

IMO, the Mazdaspeed looks the nicest but has small vents. The RE-A has the biggest vents so would probably be more effective and more aggressive visually.

 

I ended up ordering the AD-9 hood.. should be getting it in a week or 2.

 

Where did you pick it up from?

 

Honestly, I think the Seibon Knightsports replica is the best looking. It's not an exact replica, the vents are a little smaller and the edge styling a little sharper than the original KS, and it looks fantastic and has vents in the right place.

Unfortunately, it's only available in wet-layup half carbon/half fiberglass, with corresponding weight, stiffness, and fitment.

 

Choosing the best functioning hood will depend on the other cooling parts and how you will get the airflow to cool them down. I have the ad09 hood and i love it however for my intercooler i think there are better options out there but i would say the difference for most people is probably negligible.

 

This was always my favorite. VIS makes a full carbon KS (or used to) and the fitment was pretty good. I haven't seen any of their recent quality but this was always on my list when I was doing different kinds of builds. The functionality is also what caught my eye with vent placement. How well it works I have no idea but it looks like it would work well as long as you have airflow making it into the engine bay from the front.

 

I should think that the most effective/functioning hood would be the one that has relevant ducting in the engine bay itself to smooth and direct discharge air from the heat exchangers to the outside.

 

Gramotoring. They had 1 left in stock or else id of have to eait 15-17 weeks for it.

 

good choice. Really helps keeping temps down under the hood and ambient intake temps.

 

Panspeed 2000GT is the best looking and could be the most functional with a vmount imo

 

Best looking and best functioning FD hoods are two separate catefories for me even though my usual aesthetic trends toward "form follows function."

I read somewhere on a under hood airflow/negating front lift that the rae corner vents like the RE Amemiya hood have reallt flow a lot of air.

Aesthetically I prefer the Ings hood which is similar, but doesnt have the rear corner cents.

 

Been eyeing theirs as well, lmk how fitment ends up being!

 

Scoot hood gets my pick, VIS version for the good vents over Seibon version.

 

I'm not the biggest fan of the design philosophy for Liberty Walk's silhouette body kit but the hood looks like it could be a real winner on its own.





I am also a big fan of the CF Lab hood.

 

I almost went for the CF Lab, but didn't really want to have to cut it and have exposed pipes like that, and as a "race" hood with no latch, I wasn't sure on fit/finish nor did I want to run four hood pins. Looks pretty rad though.

There is absolutely room in the market for a US-made, proper dry carbon, well-designed/functionally vented hood that fits like factory. And doesn't take half a lifetime to get made. I'd have paid the price for it. Just doesn't exist.

 

I have been looking at the v-mount hood from Street hunter designs. Looks like it could work pretty well for those of us with a V-mount setup.

 

I just found this interesting hood.

First Moulding Super Aero hood

This combines a classic D-max style forward vent with more current Track Speck hood louvres integrated behind these and finishing with RX-8 styled rotor shape way back where our engine sits.


I dont love its look on the curvaceous stock body as pictured, but for a track/street car with more functional aero bit already detracting from the stock elegance I think it wouldnt look out if place.