I have a 99 Turbo'd Ls and I'm planning on putting a CF Hood on. What will happen to the hood if anything (with the little extra heat)? Is there a way to protect it?

 

bump for this question, i'm wondering the same thing... does anyone have problems with warpping hoods ect...

 

buy a cf hood with vents over the turbo and wastegate

 

i have never had any problems with mine. i had a ls/vtec turbo and and its sets up a little higher than a ls. and with the mani i had i never had any problem's............wear it out

 

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I just sold my vented cf hood for an oem one. It does help to let out heat from the turbo/mani but so far so good with my new oem cf hood. Should be just fine, many cars running oem cf hoods with boost.

 

If you're looking to protect a hood (C/F or otherwise) from radiant heat, you could try something such as this: http://www.jegs.com/cgi-bin/nc...r=361

Whether or not it's actually necessary will depend upon the type and quality of the hood, the amount of heat your setup generates, and the proximity of the turbo components to the hood itself.

 

mine is doing fine and i live in socal. i might be putting washers between the nuts that hold the hood down near the windshield. a hot rod style. it seems it would give me better cooling.

 

Ive been running around with a cf hood and havent had any issues at all. Just do the hood prop, cheap and effective if you dont mind how it looks

 

hood prop? you mean pop the hood?

 

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I believe he's referring to shimming the rear of the hood to raise it slightly. The most common way that people do this is to place washers or some other inexpensive form of spacer between the hinges and the hood itself, in an effort to improve under-hood ventilation.

 

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youll need longer bolts as well should only be like $1 to do everything.lol

 

If you were that concerned you could always heat wrap it

 

it works fine on my setup

 

daidilus is my good friend my name is reflex da techstepa i have 97dc2 started as an ls
it was a type r for a while trade my motor to my shop for a fully tuned gsr everything was done to this motor it was a dragster motor and i have a fiber images cf hood oem style and it has started to crack over the turbo and heat wraping works but i dont use it i have heard it can crack headers