carbon fiber hoods cause engine rust?
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carbon fiber hoods cause engine rust?
We all see these awsome vented carbon hoods for the FD3S like the N1 <---hella expensive and the more practical Seibo carbon fiber hood. My question is simple. It rains a lot in Washington and well so the water will flow through those ducts in the hood if you park your car outside in the ran. Will any of the engine componets rust or wareout cuz of the water?
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well ok carcover, do u take it with you when you go out to eat dinner? Some places don't have any sort of covered parking so what do u do? See thats what brings this to mind. It rains hella in this state and more than once in a while there will be no way to cover your car if u have a vented hood.
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Come onn. think about all the water that gets into the engine bay just driving down the street even in stock trim. Nothing to worry about stop trippin over nothing. Plus I think our cars run ot enough to evaporate most neusance excess water,but then again i have never had one. I still don't think it'd be an issue though unless the car was just sitting in the rain for a long time.
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two words...car cover
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Originally Posted by mabii
If you park a fd in the rain you need to be shot.
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well ok carcover, do u take it with you when you go out to eat dinner? Some places don't have any sort of covered parking so what do u do? See thats what brings this to mind. It rains hella in this state and more than once in a while there will be no way to cover your car if u have a vented hood.
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why do you want one of those hood in the first place. Yes they look cool but they have no funtionality if you dont have a Vmount.
Again dont get me wrong those hoods are awesome. I love the one that Rotary Extreme makes for FD's (if your interested chuck the owner is a awesome guy and give him a call for pricing www.rotaryextreme.com) but get to attention from the wrong people.
if you do get one think of it this way there are so many damn holes that a cop doesnt even have to pop your hood to see that your have massive mods on your car! (laws are different in CA but my friends WRX got impounded after getting pulled over for not turning his turn signals on when he was merging over but cop walked his car and saw his gt30r turbo sitting behind one of the holes he had on his vented CF hood)
get a car cover dont worry about rain when you go to dinner just cover it at night thats when it sits the most if your worried about going out when it rains because no matter what your car is goin to be moving again have the water drip off.
and get a garage!
PS lived and still visit WA often
Again dont get me wrong those hoods are awesome. I love the one that Rotary Extreme makes for FD's (if your interested chuck the owner is a awesome guy and give him a call for pricing www.rotaryextreme.com) but get to attention from the wrong people.
if you do get one think of it this way there are so many damn holes that a cop doesnt even have to pop your hood to see that your have massive mods on your car! (laws are different in CA but my friends WRX got impounded after getting pulled over for not turning his turn signals on when he was merging over but cop walked his car and saw his gt30r turbo sitting behind one of the holes he had on his vented CF hood)
get a car cover dont worry about rain when you go to dinner just cover it at night thats when it sits the most if your worried about going out when it rains because no matter what your car is goin to be moving again have the water drip off.
and get a garage!
PS lived and still visit WA often