Vented hood thread
 

Hey guys. I just got my Seibon BD hood installed today. :tup:
For those of you who have vented hoods, what do you do when it rains? and how do you wash it? And do you have other problems with your hoods?
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Looks great. How was the install?

Your hood looks nice! I had my body shop installed my hood for me...they put some mesh for me and lexan to keep most of the rain/water out. I had a seibon carbon fiber hood on my G35 and it was vented like yours and rain or car wash didnt do anything but make the engine more dirty


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OP, the engine is fine if water gets on it. As far as washing, treat it like the rest of your car.

Also, you may want to get the hood clear coated unless it seldom sees sunlight. The gel coat doesn't help much when it comes to UV exposure and yellowing of the CF/gel coat.

what hood is that? ^

Thanks!
pretty easy, make sure you have 2 extra ppl helping you. the clips for the windshield washer fluid wouldn't fit in the holes CF has, need minor modifications. in general really easy!

Damn, that actually looks pretty bad *** OP. I would def paint or buy to mesh tho. That Seibon **** suckkkks. I found some good grills to replace on my hood and bumpers if you are interested PM me.

As far as rain/washing goes. I dont really drive my car in the rain, but have been caught in the occasional freak of nature down pour, plus I was my car alot. I have no problems with the water. And my vents (TS style hood) are a little bit more over where the MAF sensors or for the intakes, still no problems over about 5K plus miles on the car. I wouldnt worry about it, especially with your hood.

I actually like it! Looks aggressive with the lip

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No issues, fitment problems, or anything other than good fun with mine so far.

Wait, you bought a vented hood and then covered the vents in lexan?

Yeah i liked the look of the hood i saw a guy that did it to his rx-7 cause he was afraid of water/rain getting in.. it looked good.. so i figure id do mine

That looks great! I might have to get different mesh too..

Thanks for the tip! :tup:

BD style

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I still have mesh around both vents. I have had no problems with water so far.

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^^SO AWESOME!! T_T I WANNA BE LIKE U!!

Has anyone heard of the hood flying off while driving on a 370z? are hood pins necessary?

You should not have a problem if the hood latches to the original latches (which is 3 I believe) since most hoods are not actually any lighter than the OEM hood and I doubt you will be reaching speeds that would cause any issues.

I'm diggin the hoods. Really feeling the hood on jamicas blue z, what hood is that?

SexyZ and my z.
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Your tow hook is crooked.

...good eye. :tup:

hoods look awesome though. :tiphat:

He had it custom made, check out their facebook page.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Underg...40620785956073

Hey where can I get a license plate mount like that for my windshield, and how well does it work?

suction cups! They work pretty well.:tup:

thats our JSE hood. Should be out on the market soon. Having it made in CF and fiberglass. M1 autobody is working on our hoods at the moment.

Am I retarded or do you guys not have a website? I wanted to see what all you guys offer for the Z but I'm not finding anything other than on this site.


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Gotta keep my eye on this as I want a new hood, just not carbon fiber. I think it looks out of place on a blue Z.

Jse hood. Ill keep a eye out for it, curious how it'd look on a stock body Z....always felt like it needed some vents/scoop from the factory.

any idea how much these may cost? when they are in production

Anyone try to DIY OEM vented hood like the S2000 guys do?

http://www.s2ki.com/s2000/gallery/pa...912__file__med

Found an old thread here
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Kind of want to try this. Im scared though.

do it! id love to see the results.

Not sure how that would work on a Z. Location of the support ribs might not allow for a look like that.

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Aero Jacket
 

I received a one-off vented hood from Aero Jacket, which makes use of the OEM hood and is based off the one on Jamaica@UAMotorsports car. It's pretty rough and requires a bit of work from the body shop, but I rather have this custom vented hood than a CF vented hood or anything with protruding add on vents. I'm just crossing my fingers that it'll turn out well. I'll work underneath to improve stability and aesthetics at a later time... looks pretty gross underneath haha.

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Yeah looks pretty rough but the vent placement is probably the best for extracting heat right after the radiator.

So what did they do? Cut those in a stock hood?

Yea, they cut out a section underneath to clear the path to cut the exposed section of the hood. The line in the pic was partially cut to help fold the flap, which was a bit delicate. To hold them in place, they used some fiber and epoxy. The vent gap is about 1" wide, so hopefully it's enough to vent something. I'm told their drift cars have these vents as well.

The shop handling my car specializes in auto body repair and PDR, and they're not too excited about custom work like this. The tech will use an epoxy that can adhere to aluminum (possibly same as what he's using for PDR of the body panels). He will try to fill and clean the epoxy and weave section, and also deburr some sharp and rough edges. I'm told it'll take about 8 hours of labor.

In the near future I might try to go back underneath the hood to clean up the work, add grills and some reinforcement as well. If I decide to add some silver foil tape, it'll be for the vented section since I want the hood to dissipate heat - not reflect it back.

It is a lot of work, and I hope my car doesn't have to endure a freak hail and wind storm like this again... just one more year till I get a hold of a beater car haha.

I got the Seibon GTR style hood. I guess it's designed so water can't really get in unless it's being forced upward onto the hood. Even driving through rain I've never had a problem with "large" amounts of water getting in there.

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