More airflow under the hood?
09-14-09, 08:20 PM
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i can feel my flex-a-lites suckin like crazy through the hole, ill give it a few days and see if temps go down
, driver side high light almost done, not sure if im gonna put it in though, when i get the bumper and sides painted i might paint this as well, we'll see...
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09-14-09, 08:43 PM
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that looks really great..thanks for the pics..I think its time to pull the light out and start cutting..I have the pvc and everything sitting here, just hesitant to do it..but that has inspired me 100%...
now, should I do both sides, or just 1?
now, should I do both sides, or just 1?
09-14-09, 09:18 PM
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09-15-09, 08:13 AM
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I think if I'm going to do both i will shape the end of the pvc to the lenses to try and keep them as even as possible..and more than likely make them side by side at the same time.
sueno, you have done an excellent job with this. Thanks for taking the time and posting the pics. I should be staring on mine soon.
sueno, you have done an excellent job with this. Thanks for taking the time and posting the pics. I should be staring on mine soon.
09-29-09, 07:40 AM
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nice i like your take on the high beams....I have a question..I've got an intake w/o a heat sheild and when i first installed it the intake was great and sometimes sounded alike to a bov but now after 3 months I lost that sound and I feel it was a lot meaner before and it feels a bit of power loss..I didn't put in the heat shield b/c it couldn't fit and i had to cut it but didn't have the tools. Do you think if I put a heat shield in now I will gain my power back or is it too late?
09-29-09, 11:33 AM
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nice i like your take on the high beams....I have a question..I've got an intake w/o a heat sheild and when i first installed it the intake was great and sometimes sounded alike to a bov but now after 3 months I lost that sound and I feel it was a lot meaner before and it feels a bit of power loss..I didn't put in the heat shield b/c it couldn't fit and i had to cut it but didn't have the tools. Do you think if I put a heat shield in now I will gain my power back or is it too late?
09-30-09, 10:54 AM
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Just a word of caution to anyone thinking of spacing out the rear of the hood. My friend did this on his S15 drift car, anyway whilst driving it on the street he had a slow head on collision traveling around 30km/hr with the other car going 30km/hr aswell. Anyway because the hood was spaced it smashed into the windscreen. Luckily the speed wasnt that fast however he said and i saw the car after words that the hood was on a perfect angle to cut both his and his girlfriend head off if they were going fast enough and the bonnet went through the windscreen. Pretty scary thought and so i wouldnt advise anyone to go this pathway, way to dangerous.
10-01-09, 12:54 AM
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Just a word of caution to anyone thinking of spacing out the rear of the hood. My friend did this on his S15 drift car, anyway whilst driving it on the street he had a slow head on collision traveling around 30km/hr with the other car going 30km/hr aswell. Anyway because the hood was spaced it smashed into the windscreen. Luckily the speed wasnt that fast however he said and i saw the car after words that the hood was on a perfect angle to cut both his and his girlfriend head off if they were going fast enough and the bonnet went through the windscreen. Pretty scary thought and so i wouldnt advise anyone to go this pathway, way to dangerous.
thats good to know, glad that didnt happen to me when i love tapped my corolla... if i had a passenger i dont think the hood would have been the problem though,...
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10-01-09, 09:34 AM
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Yeah that would have been the least of the passengers worries, they would have had 1/4 of a second to think how they could compress themselves into the size of a tennis ball to live through that 
Yeah the hood actually smashed into the window was wasnt enough energy for it to penetrate it. Here are some pics i digged up, note that the two spider cracks are from his head and girlfriends head hitting the windscreen and you can see the cracks on the windscreen where the spaced up hood hit it.
Also didnt help that the hood was carbon fibre and didnt bend like metal would.
Yeah the hood actually smashed into the window was wasnt enough energy for it to penetrate it. Here are some pics i digged up, note that the two spider cracks are from his head and girlfriends head hitting the windscreen and you can see the cracks on the windscreen where the spaced up hood hit it.
Also didnt help that the hood was carbon fibre and didnt bend like metal would.
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