Roof Scoop

[stragabenzGS]

i would like to put a roof scoop on my clipse, like the one in this pic, ive seen some on ebay and stuff but it doesnt really look like it and it seems smaller, is it the same one and it just looks better as a finished product. Do you know where i can get the one in this pic.

 

[90DSMTurboFWD]

Planning on riveting your windows up and doing some heavy circuit racing are ya?

 

[BrianGSX03]

Roof scoops are ###!

 

[IHeartTurbo]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Maybe if you convert your car to mid- or rear-engine you can do it, but not right now. Oh, and make sure your floor board doesn't fall out when you blow the welds on your intake manifold from hitting the NAWZ too much.

 

[greathuskie]

dont listen to these assholes, i am currently putting that same roof scoop on my car and it appears to be the same one on that car

its going pretty good, no real difficulties except it doesnt fit for shit....but thats what fiberglass is for

 

[9D9 MITSU RS]

put a duct on the backside so it doesn't rip off or crack when the air gets in it. That, or seal it up. But what's the point of having a mound on top of your car? I'd just cut a vent in the back of it.
Don't listen, just do what u like. Realize that majority of DSM owners think that a stock looking car is the best look. Most of them refuse to try and appreciate anything else.

 

[BrianGSX03]

Originally posted by greathuskie
dont listen to these assholes, i am currently putting that same roof scoop on my car and it appears to be the same one on that car

its going pretty good, no real difficulties except it doesnt fit for shit....but thats what fiberglass is for

the only asshole is the chucklehead who does this to their car

 

[greathuskie]

i guess im an asshole then, considering i want to do something to the car i paid my own money for my car and ill do whatever the hell i want to it, but if that makes me an asshole to you then so be it, in the end my car is still faster then yours

 

[RipperXX]

To the writer of this thread.

I think they might have taken you a little more serious if you had a tubocharged car and didn't post a pic of a F&F car


I do agree however it is his car and he can do whatever he want's to it even if I personaly think it is ###. (which unless he is actuly venting it to the interior of his car IMO it is)

But again his car his money.

 

[lexrockhard]

Maybe we could hit up Paul Walker with an e-mail and ask him.

, just crankin' your yank, dude. Anyway, I haven't seen many cars with this on the street and if you do it, I hope you do it well. I saw a yellow mx-6 with this (he actually had it sticking out from behind the rear window) and it totally looked ghey. Try to avoid or at least lessen that response at all costs.

 

[90DSMTurboFWD]

the purpose for roof scoops are simple. They supply air to those cars that run curcuit races. the hardcore guys swap out their glass windows for plexglass or race glass and rivet that shit up. Since the car gets hella hot they devised the roof scoop to allow air into the car. Its sorta like the giant Dryer hose you see sticking out of the side of NASCARs

On a street car all you wil get is laughed at, and thats if you lucky and it doesnt fly off, cause then you will just never live that down.

But hey, your car, your money.

Happy boosting

 

[MrPikolo]

Well, all you people that decide to flame the guy for doing what he wants to do his car should shut the hell up. I apologize to the thread author. Thanks to these people, your thread will probably be locked.

People like you guys(the people that flamed) bug me. Go find something else to do.

 

[Spidey]

Originally posted by 90DSMTurboFWD
Since the car gets hella hot they devised the roof scoop to allow air into the car.

Wrong, they're for rear/mid engined cars to get some air to the engine bay, not the driver.

 

[mavisky]

this roof scoop is not designed to feed air to any engine. its designed specifically to get air circulation to the driver's compartment.

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[wastefuldreamer]

This whole thread is useless. Have you poeple read the rules?

Do not add to flamewars - do not respond to flamebait posts. You can be banned for this.

Anyways
http://www.splittingimagez.com/rallytech_roof_scoops.htm

 

[splattj]

Just make sure to rivet that badboy down and use some fiberglass to smooth over the rivets. You could probably do that job pretty easily. It wouldn't be hard to make it functional. It would probably be nice in a car that had the A/C removed. Although you would need a water-tight sealing hatch were it functional.....

 

[MyEclipse5]

BTW that is not the car form TFATF its a look alike with differet decals

 

[IHeartTurbo]

Originally posted by MyEclipse5
BTW that is not the car form TFATF its a look alike with differet decals

Doesn't make it any less ugly.

 

[90DSMTurboFWD]

Originally posted by Spidey
Wrong, they're for rear/mid engined cars to get some air to the engine bay, not the driver.

Nah it is to get air to the driver actually. Routing a vent into the engine compartment, down the rear glass would be a trick, i dont think anyone has done it though. However those MR2's have side vents that come out the side of the roof, kinda, and go into the engine bay, but that isnt concidered a roof scoop.

 

[90DSMTurboFWD]

I'll have to admit the roof scoops give an agressive look to certain cars, And I think that the 2g Eclipse is one of them, however unless you are a show car you will get laughed at by anyone. Its like putting a No2 bottle in your passanger seat and buckling it in, or a boost guage on an NA car.

 

[mavisky]

Originally posted by 90DSMTurboFWD
Nah it is to get air to the driver actually. Routing a vent into the engine compartment, down the rear glass would be a trick, i dont think anyone has done it though. However those MR2's have side vents that come out the side of the roof, kinda, and go into the engine bay, but that isnt concidered a roof scoop.

that is exactly what the roof vent on the mcclaren f1 does.

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[90DSMTurboFWD]

And it is a very cool trick, Haha, nah it only works on the MR cars that dont have a giant firewall between the engine bay and drivers. Well non hatch cars. Can you imagine one on an MR2? I wouldnt mind seeing it tried, cause like I said they look cool on some cars, however unless they are functional, then they are pointless...

 

[9D9 MITSU RS]

who cares if he posted a pic of tfatf car? It has a roof scoop and he used it for an example. SO WHAT!? He isn't trying to make the 50,000th tfatf look alike. He just wants a roof scoop. I think they look cool and give something to the bare top of the car for a show car or for someone who just wants to turn heads. How many people are really going to laugh at it? Most people will love a car that has body mods done right. It's just the people that are too anal to accept anything besides a stock-bodied DSM that love to mess up posts about anything that someone wants to do to alter the appearance of their car. Just a question, but what is the point in posting in a section devoted to the appearance side of modifying when you are so opposed to modifying the appearance? Sure, performance modding is cool. But it's the same aspect. How practical is it to have a faster car? Really? It's just what you like. It goes the same way for people who want body kits, wings, roof scoops, air ride, whatever. They do it for kicks and to have a good time. Let them. The point where automotive enthusiasts fail to see eye to eye is at that point where they can't reach a sense of respect for someone with a common interest. It's pointless to make a thread this long really, because most of the people that own a DSM are close-minded assholes that can't accept anything other than a stock looking car with rims and performance mods. I kinda hate owning 1 sometimes, b/c there are very few people that own DSMs that actually have a likeable personality. :thumbdown

 

[stragabenzGS]

wow i didnt even notice if it was a F&F i just saw the roof scoop and thought it looked cool i dont want it for performance reason i want it for the look all i want to know is if its going to cost me a fortune to put in on my roof and is it the same ones that are ebay.

 

[Spidey]

I guess it would depend on application as to where the air goes, but many circuit cars I've seen have them route from the roof scoop, down the rear glass on the inside, to the engine compartment, like this: