Nissan 370Z Forum - Heat soak - vented hood options that are not "louvered"

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Originally Posted by Nixlimited (Post 2819609)

That paint looks great!

:iagree:

You reuse all your own hardware. Latches same as stock...

like Wheel said you reuse all you stock hardware, I ran that hood on my G37 helped a lot with temps,

Hood down, mounted. Excellent heat release.

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/05/20/y3e2ebaj.jpg

^Nice! This is swaying me more and more toward this hood. Do you have any full frontal shots? haha I'm serious, would like to see it straight on too.

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Originally Posted by wheee! (Post 2826234)

Hood down, mounted. Excellent heat release.

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/05/20/y3e2ebaj.jpg

That does look very nice :tup:

Have you logged temps -- just wondering what the net change was?

plus 18 degrees on Sunday and I couldn't get oil temps over 90 with a 19 row cooler.... 2 hours hwy driving and some city.

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Originally Posted by wheee! (Post 2826917)

plus 18 degrees on Sunday and I couldn't get oil temps over 90 with a 19 row cooler.... 2 hours hwy driving and some city.

Translation for us folks in the US:

plus 64 degrees on Sunday and I couldn't get oil temps over 194 with a 19 row cooler.... 2 hours hwy driving and some city. :driving:

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Originally Posted by wheee! (Post 2826917)

plus 18 degrees on Sunday and I couldn't get oil temps over 90 with a 19 row cooler.... 2 hours hwy driving and some city.

What were you seeing previously under those or similar conditions?

Temps around 100...

I will try and get some more data soon. I've only had the car out once since the install...

aerojacket definitely works well, my oil and water temps have yet to exceed 195F and that was beating the crap out of the car at 16psi. normal driving my oil temps sit around 170 now, 180 if its warm out. this is with a mishimoto radiator and a 25row oil cooler.

http://i.imgur.com/9EW56Ey.jpg

^^^ That's pretty impressive.

Just make sure you aren't over cooling -- beating on it much before 170* F is a bit on the cold side, but hovering right around 180* - 200* is probably perfect in terms of lubing and also keeping the ECU and valvetrain happy.

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Originally Posted by Jordo! (Post 2827491)

Yes thats definitely worth mentioning, too cold is bad. It's annoying when its colder out because it takes longer to warm up, and I don't boost at all or rev over 4k rpm's if the oil is < 160F, but I don't drive it at all during winter so its only a minor annoyance in spring/fall. Once it gets to summer temps here I will be glad I have the extra cooling.

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Originally Posted by DIGItonium (Post 2564084)

Achieved... thanks to Aero Jacket:

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I love seeing my hood design on your car :)

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Originally Posted by G37sHKS (Post 2567478)

Ah, How i missed this thread?

I was in same situation after i installed the TT kit, I had heat issue and it was seriously annoying so started with venting the hood.

I really didnt like any of aftermarket hood supplied to G37 coupe. so I had to steal a design from another world, BMW for instance.

After countess of hours research and see what fits taste I end up with vorsteiner hood for bmw 3 series.
http://www.carnimal.com/images/17195...-race-hood.jpg

http://www.motorworldhype.com/wp-con...v35-hood-3.jpg

http://www.motorworldhype.com/wp-con...v35-hood-2.jpg

http://www.supremepowerparts.com/pro...9060%20BMV.jpg

http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/v...ps1635c124.jpg

http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/v...ps815302e6.jpg

And it all started from here (excuse my noob Photoshop lol)
http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/v...psa39cee3b.jpg

http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/v...ps6dfa8a00.jpg

http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/v...psb2bda90f.jpg

Tada! Its not exactly what I wanted but looks similar atleast.

The funny part is the company that made my hood now calls it type s version 1 g37 hood (or what ever its called now) and sells it as their design without a single permission:shakes head:

After all this hood really works and looks good. Im sorry Vorsteiner for stealing the design but i had to do it due the lack of body kit available for G37 coupe:rolleyes:

Does anyone know what company it was that made this hood for him or know of any companies that will do the same sort of thing?

I want to get vents into my Z, but I don't like any of the vented aftermarket hoods currently available for the Z.

I want a more simple and elegant vented hood like these BMW type ones.