Not worth doin IMO. The fit and finish will look cheap and sh!tty if you cut it yourself. Get the mach1 hood if a functional hood scoop is that important to you.

 

+1

 

its not worth it imho

 

Well, This is just tempting. When you look from under the hood there are only two threaded studs holding the ormental vents to the hood.
The vents can be drilled to make the grille on the vents functional. With the vents removed, I think I can mke a hole under the vents thru the hood.

The metal vent pieces should hide the hole work to make it look good.

Water will come in when it rains but I think it can be deflected with two small sheet metal catch things.

My real concern is that ( I think ) the air on a car comes in the front and leaves under the car. Maybe having air come in the top will spoil the flow.

Think I'm over my head[:@]

 

i agree, making your own functional hoodscoop out of the one already on your hood is probably not going to do much at all. i work with a guy that used to design engines and he explained this to me when i was talking about making the scoop on my '04 functional. opening your hood scoop will probably not let much air in at all since the scoop is not above the layer of air that flows over your car (think about car commercials where they blow smoke over a car in a wind tunnel to advertise the aerodynamics). unless you can get above that layer, the scoop won't suck any air in. probably the best that would happen is that the air flowing over your hood would create a vacuum and suck some of the hot air out from underneath the hood through the scoop. which is not a bad thing. reverse hood scoops and cowl induction work well because the air sort of tumbles around by your wipers when it hits your windshield. the reverse scoop or cowl induction give the air a way to flow back under your hood, instead of just tumbling around. i'm not saying forward facing scoops are a bad thing, just that they probably won't be able to take in enough air to make a noticeable difference in power.

 

I dont think the point is to really gain much of any thing performance wise. Even if it just gets the engene wet. As long as is does SOME thing other than just sit there. Just the fact that the scoop is "functional" gives it credibility to be there vs a totally non-functioning/ornamental scoop.

 

yea, i will admit that at least functional is better than ornamental. i have had to sit at stoplights a few times and explain that its just there for decoration...

 

yea i have given that speech a few times... depressing isnt it?

 

I just tell em it functions. I just dont say that its function is to look good.

 

Thanks guys

I should clarify that I have a 98 GT . The two litle vents are about 3/4 of the way to the windshield. There are two of them - one on each side of the hood ridge.

There should be that boundary layer effect at that location but not really the high pressure that they talk about .

As svolmer said it would only get rid os some hot air ( I think ) This is ok however as every little bit helps .