Best Cooling Hood for 2G

[Dave_Hash]

I am looking for the best cooling hood for a 2G, I would like it to be carbon fiber since my car is black. Any ideas or proven tests for cooling the engine/turbo?

 

[Jetblack]

I did the 'Grey Forrest' hood mod on mines and you can feel the heat rising out. I guess you're looking more for something that will draw air in though. I'm not into spending if I don't have to.

 

[howie3]

I did the 'Grey Forrest' hood mod on mines and you can feel the heat rising out. I guess you're looking more for something that will draw air in though. I'm not into spending if I don't have to.

What's that?

 

[BrownBa14]

VIS CF Invader hood.

 

[gixrman]

Here ya go
http://dsmtuners.com/forums/showthread.php?t=154160&highlight=hood+vents

Grey forrest hood mod
http://dsmtuners.com/forums/showthread.php?t=109404

 

[definitiveno]

Here's one, not sure if it's custom or not....

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[99gst_racer]

^^^^ That hood is the Aerogear Predator (sp?). It's fiberglass. (just in case anyone was wondering)

Read this thread. There are many options in there, if you are looking for something to vent underhood heat.

 

[mirkoelek]

this works good

 

[CyberEye]

how is that Grey forest mod in the rain?

 

[danielbui]

how is that Grey forest mod in the rain?

ask him, he's a member of this site

 

[danielbui]

or ask the crankbender, he did a post on the exact same question your asking. you want a hood that extracts the heat from the engine compartment. i believe it was something like a reverse scoop where the manifold is and another 8 inchs away from the base of the windshield. http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/showthread.php?t=163807

 

[Pj97GST]

If you're looking for genuine improved cooling, ditch the plans to spend money on a CF hood.. Get a Fluidyne, some decent slim fans, and an RRE c/f reverse scoop.

Fluidyne's are like $375 at RRE and are a busload better than the single core stocker radiator.

just my $0.021254 since I'm a firm believer in function over form.

 

[leet]

I did the 'Grey Forrest' hood mod on mines and you can feel the heat rising out. I guess you're looking more for something that will draw air in though. I'm not into spending if I don't have to.

Too bad it turns into an intake once you start moving, which is bad from an aerodynamic standpoint. You have enough air going into the engine bay as it is.

Pj, I believe he is talking about cooling the engine bay, not his coolant. A good suggestion none the less though

www.carbontrix.com check out their vents. You'll need something like that to actually exhaust air from the engine bay.

 

[starscreem]

this is the hood im getting i think it looks cool and should be a ble to get are buy the turbo to run it cooler http://www.aerokits.net/store2/store.cgi?&shop=city&L=eng&Category=150503 oh ya its double sided carbon to

 

[Revolution]

Hey guys, well to make a long story short I copied Jesus Riveras drag car hood.

Basically a friend and I measured and cut a rectangular whole in the front center portion of the 2g hood which sits right over top of the exhaust manifold and turbo.

The trick was cutting a straight edge U shape then bending the sheetmetal back (down ward) so it would make a slope from the manifold and then go up. Then we had to build fiberglass walls from the normal hood to the bent flap we had created.

I will post a pick some day but if you were to view picks of Jesus Riveras race car then you would see what I'm talking about.

It was very cheap to do but it did take a few hours to complete so this is a time consuming job. As far as cooling I only have one stock fan and a huge fmic and have not overheated at all. When driving it actually works by sucking out all the hot air thats created by the exhaust manifold.

The reason why it took us a while to complete was we tried some wind tunnel tricks to actually make sure it would work while driving instead of sucking air into the engine bay like other diy mods do. We placed some strings all different sizes and ran them over top of the hood.
We used my friends huge fan at it's different speeds in front of the car to simulate driving at different speeds, and to our surprise the strings all performed the dip over the inverted vent we wanted them to do at every speed.

Basically the hood mod acts like a scavenging affect sucking out all the hot air.

This was a great mod and it gave my car a very menacing look which to me was a bonus ,and to top it all off I didn't spend hundreds of dollares on a cf hood that might or might not have worked as good.

P.s this is very important when working with the hood , If you where to do any mod to your hood don't increase the hoods hight right b4 the opening because this will actually work like a cowl hood, meaning your sucking air in not out. If the area in front of your opening is higher in silhouette then the area after it, it will suck air in, you will want the reverse to suck air out.

I hope I helped in some way or form.

P.s I'm sorry If this post doesn't sound like my usual post ,I'm just extremely tired right now.

 

[99gst_racer]

I will post a pick some day

Man, posting all that without pics is like teasing us.... We want to see!!!

 

[L2RTSiAWD]

Man, posting all that without pics is like teasing us.... We want to see!!!

Exactly, that's totally wrong. Especially since it sounds like you put some work into making a really good mod.

 

[definitiveno]

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[zachakagoat]

That is the UGLIEST front end I have ever seen I LOVE the hood though looks nice

 

[Revolution]

Yikes, please don't quote pictures. Thanks! - leet

Hey definitiveno you rock hard core, thanks allot for finding the pics as I'm helpless when it comes to loading pics, that and the fact that I'm on dial up really kills it.

Unfortunately my hood doesn't look as pretty as his hood since I'm leaving it as is (spray painted black so it doesn't attract too much attention from the cops) until I finish off the wide body fender flares.

My goal is to slap on 10 or 12" wide rims on my 2g all the way around and run some very ubber grippy tires so I could tackle any situation that might arise, plus I just love the look of really wide rims and tires on sport cars .