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Old 09-28-2007, 03:15 PM   #181
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This guy has some nice hood venting.
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Old 09-28-2007, 03:32 PM   #182
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I burnt my hood up and now have a 14x14 area that needs to be fixed. My original plan was just to paint the hood black. But after this post. Im thinking I might just cut out the hole and a little longer to make an area that will release turbo heat. The area is right over the DP on the left top area of the hood. What do you all think?
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Old 09-28-2007, 03:35 PM   #183
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This guy has some nice hood venting.
That is exactly what I was planning for my hood.

I wish I knew who that guy is so I could ask him where he got the vents and for more pics.
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Old 09-28-2007, 04:14 PM   #184
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I really just want to find some rivet on vents like those. Make things easier
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Old 09-28-2007, 04:24 PM   #185
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I really wonder where he got that drop in piece though.
He says that they took the hood off of their old race car after it crashed and cut that out of it. For a while, he was willing to just have that piece molded so that everyone could have a DIY extraction vent. Now he's making a whole hood, plus smaller extractors on the sides above each manifold area.
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Old 09-28-2007, 04:29 PM   #186
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That is exactly what I was planning for my hood.

I wish I knew who that guy is so I could ask him where he got the vents and for more pics.
His name is John Anker i got the picture from FMs site. It's recent go check it out.
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Old 09-28-2007, 04:29 PM   #187
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I think Corky is going to be making these:



That's a sexy bitch.
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Old 09-28-2007, 04:43 PM   #188
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I think this is a decent cheap semi-solution:

http://www.wardsweb.org/cars/miata_e...r.html#louvers
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Old 10-06-2007, 06:04 PM   #189
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Came across this and remembered this thread. Might look good and you can make your own cut outs, cheaper thatn a new hood for sure.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Unive...QQcmdZViewItem
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Old 10-06-2007, 06:29 PM   #190
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This might intrest some of you.
http://clubroadster.net/forum/viewto...hlight=#144253
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That's a LOT of filler, probably doubles the weight of the stock aluminum hood.
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Old 10-07-2007, 09:33 AM   #192
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Old 10-07-2007, 10:05 AM   #193
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eww look at all of that hard manual labor
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Old 10-07-2007, 10:29 AM   #194
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has anyone determined if these louvers are actually effective?

I don't like the vented hoods, but I could live with that.
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Old 10-07-2007, 10:33 AM   #195
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^ I'd just as soon send my hood to a hot-rod shop and have louvres pressed in in those locations (or maybe just a single row above the turbo)
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Old 10-07-2007, 11:25 AM   #196
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any idea where the vents in the red hood came from?
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Old 10-07-2007, 11:37 AM   #197
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I'm guessing either fleabay or some site like www.teamprototype.com
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Old 10-07-2007, 02:20 PM   #198
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The hood that is on ClubRoadster is a template. The hood is at a molder right now to get produced in fiberglass first, and then in CF. The guy that is making it has gone to great lengths to make sure there is a lot of function with it, along with the other products he sells.
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Old 10-07-2007, 05:12 PM   #199
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my roommate bought a hood vent for his dsm from this place: http://www.carbontrix.com/

they are part of road/race engineering... so they are good people to buy from. i've been eyeing the 18"x10" vent.
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Old 10-07-2007, 05:22 PM   #200
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any idea where the vents in the red hood came from?
Read his writeup that I posted earlier in this thread. They're from a Grand Prix.
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