cscsnoise

after watching my temp gage go up just a lil as i was climbing up arrowhead mountain for a visit, i decided to add a vented hood on to my reliability mod list. no harm was done, it only went up a lil above average because of the evaluation but it brought back memories of previous cars overheating. anyways i want to get a vented hood but nothing flashy. just want the hood so it can do its job. anyone know some online shops or good hoods i should look at. id rather have something simple like an evo style hood.

FDNewbie

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K first, your OEM temp gauge should NEVER move. The FD's stock temp gauge is heavily weighted, so when it does move, it's usually too late. Again, I'll repeat, it should NEVER EVER move. If it does, you need to check your cooling system after you've checked your motor. Read up; there's a lot you gotta know that's specific to this car my friend. Assuming it's like other cars is a one way ticket down a very expensive road...

As for hoods, there's a plethora of them over there, all of which I sell (www.FDNewbieImports.com). Prob wanna start by browsing through the Interior/exterior/audio section for pics of various hoods, because there are MANY. But more importantly, do NOT use a vented hood as a bandaid for a larger problem: your FD overheating. Find the problem and fix it.

~Ramy
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SLOASFK

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Ramy, you still have that R-Magic hood? I might actually buy it this time

cscsnoise

ok will do. i just had r & r rebuild my motor and iv yet to take the car back so they can c how its doin. ill ask them to look into. it probably has something to do with the water sound i frequently hear in the dash coming from the heater core. i was gonna have them check that too. either way ill get on it. one reason i assumed it wasnt to much of a big deal is because i hear a lot on these forums that the stock temp gauge isnt to good. no excuse to just brush it off though wene its telling me its gettin to hot. but yeah ill jump right on that

FD3Smaniac

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not for any real reason besides it looks really sweet... you should get ur hands on the JUN aero hood, its bad ***, and i still cant find anywhere to buy it from... sad times

fendamonky

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cscsnoise, Just a thought, but you could always vent the stock hood...

The S2000 guys did this and the link popped up on the forums a while back: http://www.s2ki.com/forums/index.php...ic=324009&st=0 personally I am not a huge fan of the look of most of the vented aftermarket RX-7 hoods out there. The OEM one is clean and if you do the cutting right this can look pretty nice..

just my $.02

timothyandygoh

that water sound is NOTHING. its just u not burping ur coolant.

meaning filling up the coolant, starting up the car and getting the access air out of the car.

it happened to me at the start too, and a simple check by R&R rotary fixed it, and i found out how to do it myself there after.

i doubt its the water sound. coz its just the air in the system.

cscsnoise

fendamonkey i think you just saved me a couple hundred right there. the job on that s2000 looks really clean. i can definitely pull that off. very inexpensive to. im gonna go that route for sure thnks man.

fendamonky

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Yup

SLOASFK

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I want to get the hood cutting done, but I'm still concerned about the ammount of water that would get in through the openings. noone's had anything to say about how harmful it may or may not be...

BobfisH

Hey,

I dont want to **** on your fire Ramy, and by this im by no means saying an FD overheating is fine, but i drove my FD for a long time with a blown coolant seal. It overheated several times, where my temp gauge got right up to the upper red part of the gauge.

I rebuilt the engine, and although i didnt re-use the plates i took out of the car (people say overheating warps the engine plates) i have measured them and they are within spec for warpage.

So if you do overheat, its not necessarily the end of the world. As i say my car overheated many many times and although the engine was already dead by that point, the actual overheating did not irreprebly damage anything.

I guess what im saying is, dont drive the car if it overheats, but also dont go and buy a whole new engine for £10,000 or however much it costs you guys, just because it overheated.

BobfisH

P.s, heres my hood. Re amemiya rep, sprayed in my garage.

str8ryd

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Not a concern at all. I had the scoot hood on for a couple years with no rain guards whatsoever. Water was never an issue aside from gettin' all my polished parts dirty. I even got stuck in a couple major rainstorms and not once did it cause any damage.


So if that's the only thing holding you back, I say go for it!

FD3Smaniac

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take pictures of the process, i wanna see this hood, because if its nice enough... well i wont butcher my hood, but ill buy another oem and butcher that one

cscsnoise

sure thing. im gonna freshen up my cutting and sculpting on something else before i jump right into it on the only fd hood i own. but ill definitively post the picks up of the process.

cscsnoise

im thinking this is how i might go about it. wat do you all think?

cscsnoise

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FDNewbie

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Hey no worries. I'm not out trying to push a point. Just reiterating what the vast majority of new owners have often discovered the hard way; once the temp gauge moves, more times often than not, it means irreversible damage has occurred. Now as you had mentioned, sometimes you're lucky and nothing happens. But it's your engine and your wallet, so feel free to take the risk. I've heard plenty a story where the gauge shot up, they turned off the motor, but it was too late. The point is the gauge moves *after* the block is REAL hot. So you're really in danger at that point.

Oh and in no part of my post did I suggest he go and buy a new engine; rather I told him to make sure he got it checked out and to fix whatever was allowing his engine to overheat in the first place. Stock temp gauge shouldn't move.

Lastly, vents and rain mix just fine. I've driven for 2 or so years in some of the most torrential downpours the East Coast as ever seen. No ill effects whatsoever (other than a not-so-clean engine bay lol).

~Ramy

d1rx7

search for vented hoods in here. there is a big thread on guys who have already done this

FD3Smaniac

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if anyone find that link for the guy that has done this... post it, because i searched on here when i first seen the s2000 and i couldnt find anything

Brent Dalton

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also, spyfish did a write up prob. 5 years ago about linearizing your stockwater temp. gauge. This is a good cheap solution to the stock gauge problem.

SLOASFK

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https://www.rx7club.com/3rd-generation-specific-1993-2002-16/oem-vented-hood-662364/

Doc-1

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Works for me. It will not effect your running Temperature. Listen to the man Ramey It helps at cool down only ie after you park the car.

Doc-1

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That's Ramy for the people who can spell. and that's not me I an engineer.