New hood vent installed and ready to test!
10-02-2014, 06:39 AM
#28
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Re: New hood vent installed and ready to test!
Soo..
Got ahold of After Hours Automotive -- their hood vent is $450. Yikes, a bit out of my price range.
SportCar Motion doesn't publicly offer their vent... yet [just checked their IG page, supposedly in the works)
AJ Hartman has this piece: Hood vent - AJ Hartman Racing
Have to take a look at the measurements and see if it would work. Wonder if he would be willing to work with some people and make an non-CF piece if it would save $$.
And then there is the Shelby GT500 hood vent, which is like $80.
Got ahold of After Hours Automotive -- their hood vent is $450. Yikes, a bit out of my price range.
SportCar Motion doesn't publicly offer their vent... yet [just checked their IG page, supposedly in the works)
AJ Hartman has this piece: Hood vent - AJ Hartman Racing
Have to take a look at the measurements and see if it would work. Wonder if he would be willing to work with some people and make an non-CF piece if it would save $$.
And then there is the Shelby GT500 hood vent, which is like $80.
Damn, for $450 I'd be looking at a nice cf hood with vent already built in.
Shelby vent sounds most reasonable.
10-02-2014, 07:48 AM
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Re: New hood vent installed and ready to test!
At this point, that's what I'll most likely do or the GT500 vent. Found this write up -- I'm assuming this is the general idea you used Spenc?
240sx Vented Hood DIY
240sx Vented Hood DIY
10-02-2014, 06:52 PM
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Re: New hood vent installed and ready to test!
the cut
the template for the inside angle
setting up
trying to keep the resin smooth.
underside
done (not pretty)
added a wick up front to create the vacuum to pull the air out of the rad
if i had known how to work with resin better, i could have made this pretty. i ended up painting the resin on the outside of the hood black. i was gonna wrap the hood to match the roof (red, black, grey and white camo) but i got lazy.
also, i don't have to glass it in if u don't want to. i bolted the wick in with 3 small angle strips. the back piece could be bolted int he same fashion i'm sure.
the template for the inside angle
setting up
trying to keep the resin smooth.
underside
done (not pretty)
added a wick up front to create the vacuum to pull the air out of the rad
if i had known how to work with resin better, i could have made this pretty. i ended up painting the resin on the outside of the hood black. i was gonna wrap the hood to match the roof (red, black, grey and white camo) but i got lazy.
also, i don't have to glass it in if u don't want to. i bolted the wick in with 3 small angle strips. the back piece could be bolted int he same fashion i'm sure.
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