I recently purchased a J's intake, and was slightly concerned about all the hot air in my engine bay. I'm not feeling too wordy this morning, so I'll keep it short.

Used hood scoop from a Turbo Sprint: $60
Black spray paint: $8




I made a template out of cardboard.




Lined it up over the air filter and hood pin.




Minigrinder OWNZ CF hood.




Fabbed some brackets out of aluminium I had lying around.




Scoop in place.



Took me 4 hrs, but I did it at work: -$150

Whatcha think?


[edit] I'm going to make an airbox or heatshield in the future, just ran out of energy today.



[Modified by Dr Pooface, 12:38 PM 1/11/2003]

 

Looks good Ballzy move cutting up your carbon fiber hood.

Any more pics, hard to see final install

Mattj


[Modified by Dropspeed, 3:39 PM 1/11/2003]

 

I'll take one outside in an hour or so.

 

on a normal/cf hood i'd say it might be a worth while venture, but i mean, come on now, what about the 2 huge holes in the middle of the hood?

other than that, its very creative and most people on this board would not have the ***** to cut through the holy grail of cf...


[Modified by Soup ****, 3:41 PM 1/11/2003]

 

dont forget to block out your plates!!

 

wow that looks pretty good, how are you going to protect your engine bay from the elements though?

post more pics

-Alex

 

Leave it to Dylan to go "GHETTO" or go home!

great work man! Who ever knew those Turbo Sprints would really be any good?

 

Looks good

Ghetto

 

It's cool in all - but I'd NEVER do it..

 

It looks good, and you get mad ***** points for cutting up a CF hood... but what happens in the rain?! Your filter is going to get wet as ****... hydrolock?

 

looks sweet, but i would never have the ***** to cut up a cf hood.

 

Looks sharp. Got guts cutting up CF! BTW which front lip is that?

 

even if it did rain i dont think it would hydrolock..my filter on my cai gets wet all the time..but then again it has like 2 more feet of pipe for the water to go through..

looks good tho

 

Here is some more pics.


Good look at the hole over the filter




Shot of the brackets in action



More scoop, properly mounted





Stock painted with the rest of that $8 rattlecan.

 

..........

 

nice cutting.

nice brake dust.

will
-who thought sprints had a hole in the front of the hood vs. a sc00p.

 

wow, very impressive. clean DIY job. i was concerned about engine bay heat so i opted for a AEM cai. clean car, not feelin the red symbol though.

 

It's stock.

 

Dr. Pooface.. how do u like the j's intake u just bought?

 

Oh no.. Here it starts again.

 

i appreciate the ingenuity a lot. good job!

 

LOL!

 

very inovative....looks good

 

what sort of cf hood do u have?? -rob

 

Wouldnt you already have a lot of air in the engine bay anyways with that hood? I mean, air comes in the grille and out the top of the hood, right? Not trying to bust in you at all, just trying to understand the performance gain. BTW, nice install, gotta love custom fab work