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In the future I would like to go with a nice cowl hood on the car, Im not really a fan of the carbon fiber look itself as I kind of associate it with rice...so for those of you who have carbon fiber hoods on your car, can you post up some pictures so I can see what it looks like? doesnt matter what kind of hood it is, cowl or not...
I would prefer black cars since I have black, but post up everything, it will help me visualize better....
Yeah I have a fiberglass SS hood and it is so light all I have to do is pull the hood latch and the hood lifts its self up. I found my hood on ebay for $425 shipped a few years ago, its the SS style but I think its the 97 SS style since the scoop doesn't go flat right in front of the windshiled, kinda keeps a 2'' scoop all the way back.
ok, if I zoom in I can see its carbon fiber...it looks out of place on that car, but it actually doesnt look too bad, on a black car that might blend right in nicely.
Now, what I need to find out is if running a 4inch cowl, or something like a harwood style cowl that is all open in the back, will have any impact on the car when it is raining...keep in mind I would have ITBs all the way across what is now our intake manifold...I am worried about water dripping in and hydrolocking the engine, either while the car is sitting in a storm, or driving through one...
I had a Z-roc 4 inch cowl on mine that's all open and didnt' have any problems as far as rain in the 3 or so years I drove with it... You could watch the water drip off of it, never had a problem with it going under the hood
Rebuilding the engine... Building a custom front end... T-top conversion... Custom rear hatch..
Custom interior...
VFN has some light weight hoods, my SS 3" hood was pretty light compared to the steel hood, but if I got another hood a 4" cowl would be sweet.
08' L76 6.0L 4X4 Chevy EXT.Cab LTZ Vortec MAX with Snug top cover, Dynomax exhaust,Hptuners& K&N intake
96' Camaro M5 to A4 conversion, alot of mods . GT35R Turbo full suspension. Built engine
I had a Z-roc 4 inch cowl on mine that's all open and didnt' have any problems as far as rain in the 3 or so years I drove with it... You could watch the water drip off of it, never had a problem with it going under the hood
did you daily drive it? and the intake manifold itself was never wet at all??
yep it was my only car at the time, this was in highschool and first year of college, so it was driven alot... and I was popping the hood all the time bc I had a two-way alarm with a switch to tell if the hood was closed and it needed tightened every so often... the water never dripped past the cowl...
The only thing you might have to worry about would be snow getting packed in there or something... but even that hurting anything would be unlikely I would think and would be easy to avoid
Rebuilding the engine... Building a custom front end... T-top conversion... Custom rear hatch..
Custom interior...
yep it was my only car at the time, this was in highschool and first year of college, so it was driven alot... and I was popping the hood all the time bc I had a two-way alarm with a switch to tell if the hood was closed and it needed tightened every so often... the water never dripped past the cowl...
The only thing you might have to worry about would be snow getting packed in there or something... but even that hurting anything would be unlikely I would think and would be easy to avoid
well I would probably swap back to stock for the winter time...but I am making Individual throttle bodies, so atleast 4 throttle bodies and there air horns will be sitting directly under that cowl part, so if water does get in, it is going straight into the engine, whereas with the way our cars are set up now, there is nothing really that it can hurt...
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