lts_Mr_Yum_Yum

So... Here it goes. I wanted to put a hood scoop on my sn95. Now, I didn't want to spend 150$ on a scoop from American muscle functional or not. Having a functional scoop isn't even worth it for a street car, you only really even see any type of performance gain out of it on tracks or drag.

Anyways... I went to Autozone and bought a stick on scoop. I removed the ugly "metal" mesh crap. Sanded it, to remove the ugly gloss plastic look. Painted it matte black. Personally I think It looks good,and saved me $100 odd dollars. Ill upload pictures in a bit when it stops raining.

Heres what you all been waiting for the pictures...
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Matt's 95 Stang

Short answer - yes.

Matthew

Mike T

Your rice boilith over.

Cristoff

Some pretty harsh replies before the pics even come out...

I'm just going to say that sometimes saving $100.00 would be better spent on quality products - especially on exterior cosmetic mods.

That $100.00 may be the difference between "rice" and "meat and taters"

lts_Mr_Yum_Yum

Haha everyone is entitled to their opinion so it's all good. I have 6 friends that own mustang. 2 have fox bodies, the rest are 99-04 GT's, and one has a sn95 cobra. Everyone liked it except the foxbody guys lol. But best thing is its just a stick on, so worse case scenario I just remove it right off. Ill have Picts up tomorrow

mattdel

Hood scoops are functional on the street by allowing clearance for a big *** engine. Calling it otherwise is kinda rice as well...

lts_Mr_Yum_Yum

Actually realistically speaking a functional hood scoop or hood really doesn't make much a difference for a street car. Just the physics behind it don't allow it. You don't drive at a high enough speed on regular roads to where you can actually get any sort of benefit from a real scoop. Functional scoops or hoods are only really " functional " for the drags. Other than that, on a regular street it's just going to be for "show" wether it's real or not. Which is the reason why I wouldn't spend the extra money on buying a "functional"
Scoop or for a car.

Mike T

On a carbed engine it can be functional aka forced induction.

mattdel

He's misconstruing louver and scoop.

MnemonicGhost

I think by defintion any mod or vehicle addition that has no function other than appearance is "rice".

I'm a "less is more" guy now that I've seen my fair share of vehicles that look like Autozone or a JC Whitney catalog threw up on i. But I think we need pics for any official vote.