stock hood weight? vs. CF hood weights?

[Wagonbacker9]

general rule (for street cars 2-3000lbs) is for every 100 lbs, you drop .1 in the quarter mile. even if you replace EVERY body panel with CF, my guess is you'd have to be a professional to honestly notice a difference.

bottom line: CF on a street car is asthetic.

 

[rally2003]

^Correct^ Unless ur an Audi R8, then it is just sickness!

 

[Wagonbacker9]

^Correct^ Unless ur an Audi R8, then it is just sickness!

calling and R8 a street car is a bit of a stretch. lol (yes, I know, its perfectly street legal, but here in the real world, where we have more brains than money instead of the other way around.....) haha

 

[rally2003]

Dam, Street Car - Exotic, same thing lol.

 

[Outlawstar98]

general rule (for street cars 2-3000lbs) is for every 100 lbs, you drop .1 in the quarter mile. even if you replace EVERY body panel with CF, my guess is you'd have to be a professional to honestly notice a difference.

bottom line: CF on a street car is asthetic.

LIES!!

its all lies! *graps my carbon* LIES!

 

[Wagonbacker9]

LIES!!

its all lies! *graps my carbon* LIES!

sorry buddy, i made it all up..... i apologize











k, outlaws gone now.... i wasn't lying.

 

[Outlawstar98]

First I was like

Then I was like

 

[Patrickenator]

haha funniest s*** i've seen today

 

[rally2003]

Good stuff.

 

[special--k]

CF hood for the looks... maybe a hood scoop for cooling... but that is just as debatable.

 

[Patrickenator]

yea thats true too...lets debate that too! EVO style vs reverse cowl vs. 'subaru' style scooped hoods. by reverse cowl i mean the one with the vent in the front of the hood facing the driver...i'd be interested in how they all affect airflow to different parts of the engine.

 

[special--k]

I would be suprised if a RC hood did anying. You would think that the air would just pass over it. RC is all for looks.

The Sub prolly helps a lot, with the stock TMIC. if you swap to a FMIC i couldnt see it doing very much. Since the EVO is stock FMIC, the hood is all looks. Thats what i think anyways.

 

[Patrickenator]

i could see the vacuum created in the RC letting air out meaning more comes in the front grill...same with EVO, but i'm just speculating...

vaccum kinda like how a wing works on a plane...to create lift...but totally different haha

 

[Wagonbacker9]

I would be suprised if a RC hood did anying. You would think that the air would just pass over it. RC is all for looks.

The Sub prolly helps a lot, with the stock TMIC. if you swap to a FMIC i couldnt see it doing very much. Since the EVO is stock FMIC, the hood is all looks. Thats what i think anyways.

i could see the vacuum created in the RC letting air out meaning more comes in the front grill...same with EVO, but i'm just speculating...

vaccum kinda like how a wing works on a plane...to create lift...but totally different haha

fast moving air has lower pressure... so the air moving over the hood (obviously moving faster than the air inside the engine bay) would draw at least some air, and thus some heat out of the enginebay.... same principle as lift, you are correct.

 

[rally2003]

A scoop facing the front or Ram Air hood will for the air into a RAI if applicated. Suppling cooler forced air into the intake.

 

[Wagonbacker9]

A scoop facing the front or Ram Air hood will for the air into a RAI if applicated. Suppling cooler forced air into the intake.

this has been a well documented fact since the 60's...

 

[rally2003]

To bad the Suby hood would look like crap on a MSP. I like the EVO hood, but really like the DGM CF ram air hood. Don't have that kind of money right now though.

 

[Wagonbacker9]

there is a functional scoop hood for our cars... and yeah, I agree, it doesn't look right. there isn't a functional "ram air" hood that I'm aware of... DGM is the best quality CF work I've seen...

 

[kudakev615]

^i vouch for that last statement(hi)

 

[Patrickenator]

there is a functional scoop hood for our cars... and yeah, I agree, it doesn't look right. there isn't a functional "ram air" hood that I'm aware of... DGM is the best quality CF work I've seen...

MSP RAM HOOD

there is! but i dunno where to get the damn thing...