DIY Vented Hood
klum
Senior Wagonist
Since I don't have my ls right now I have been trying to utilize the time I have to get a lot of things done with my wagon, I saw this thread on honda tech a few weeks ago of a guy doing the same thing with his S2000 .
thinking about doing this i still have my wrecked white hood i think ill cut out covers to put over holes during rainy season or make something out of plastic like the tail light materialsThought it was a Good idea for my wagon since I've noticed my engine bay is always really hot and considering the hoods natural slope I think it would be even more beneficial to put a vent right next to my intake to make a pseudo ram air intake (that will be described later after I put the finishing touches on this current project.
went to harbor frieght and got the body saw for 35$ I plan on returning after I'm done with the job
and I already have a drill I used a bit that was just big enough to stick my saw blade in
Taped off the area and used a marker to give a visual guide in the shape I want
drilled holes
did a whatever don't give af cut job because it's a old wrecked hood I kept for a reason after all small bit of advice when making cuts is to do all cuts one way , one time
i did the first one on the wrecked hood for 2 reasons
1. Practice
2. I plan on fabbing up some sort of bracket to cover the hole I will make in the other hood for poor weather conditions , I'll put a weather foam seal on the underside to guarantee water protection and prevent damage to the new hood .
i started late and I don't feel like being a dick to my neighbors making noise so I stopped there and started a template for the cuts on the new hood
im thinking since the way I did the first cuts left a really messy look I will cut a smaller but same shape diameter vent shape and make them bigger by grinding and sanding to the perfect size.
nothin better than a good IPA
i decided to vent my hood to help keep the car cool on track. i picked up a spare hood to do the vents. i'll put the stock hood back on for the winter if i don't get lazy but i really don't drive the car in the snow.
thinking about doing this i still have my wrecked white hood i think ill cut out covers to put over holes during rainy season or make something out of plastic like the tail light materialsThought it was a Good idea for my wagon since I've noticed my engine bay is always really hot and considering the hoods natural slope I think it would be even more beneficial to put a vent right next to my intake to make a pseudo ram air intake (that will be described later after I put the finishing touches on this current project.
went to harbor frieght and got the body saw for 35$ I plan on returning after I'm done with the job
and I already have a drill I used a bit that was just big enough to stick my saw blade in
Taped off the area and used a marker to give a visual guide in the shape I want
drilled holes
did a whatever don't give af cut job because it's a old wrecked hood I kept for a reason after all small bit of advice when making cuts is to do all cuts one way , one time
i did the first one on the wrecked hood for 2 reasons
1. Practice
2. I plan on fabbing up some sort of bracket to cover the hole I will make in the other hood for poor weather conditions , I'll put a weather foam seal on the underside to guarantee water protection and prevent damage to the new hood .
i started late and I don't feel like being a dick to my neighbors making noise so I stopped there and started a template for the cuts on the new hood
im thinking since the way I did the first cuts left a really messy look I will cut a smaller but same shape diameter vent shape and make them bigger by grinding and sanding to the perfect size.
nothin better than a good IPA
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I'm going to do the mini keg intake dealy and am going to cut the side out about 6x8"exposing the filter to where the ram air will be coming in at
I'm going to go with a 3" wide reusable cone filter and a generic short ram and 45' elbow or maybe even ball out and get a whale dick (love the sound of those , had one on my b18 ek hatch) the idea behind it is that the canister shape will get fed air at a high rate of speed while also inducting it the canister will let cold air in and keep the filter from being exposed to the hot trapped engine air.
im trying to get the most for cheap out of my sohc zc and the best place to start is utilizing common practices shared by race car engineers
No going back now!
Next up cutting and rigging up the mini keg as a intake
Plan on using a cheap eBay short ram or whale dick not sure yet
Way to make a little oven.
yeah I don't know why but the black doesn't work for me and it's kinda dumb to me because of the summers here get up to 110 sometimes lol white makes more sense to me but I by all means never intended to have the car look that way shit happens
Now im no aerodynamics engineer so please correct me if I'm wrong here but i saw on a muscle car show a few years back that the air moving directly over the surface of the car is "messy" in that instead of flowing smoothly over the hood it does a sorta circle as it moves over it and never really goes into the scoop/vent itself, which is why drag cars and super high end old muscle car hood scoops are a lot higher up than the hood itself, catching all the clean air and ramming it into the engine bay
I always do notice that my engine bay is hella hot even on cool days here in Oregon so ANY ventilation is awesomeness.....
Now this is what we all need!!!
Super Rammed Air (on the intake side of course) and Hood tachs on wagons everywhere!
Hood tachs are badass though.
yea im working on a plastic cover made out of the same stuff that i made the tail lights out of , also thinking of doing the cal induction type thing with a plastic mold i have yet to design i use instagram as a build aside from a personal page @civicwagon_ee4 check it out its just easier that uploading to a computer and then to photo bicket then to here ya kno?
made a good plastic rain cover.
its not perfectly flush yet and doesnt snap in the way i imagined but after about a hour of work heres my result
and this random pic from my photoshop my 666th post ! lol XXX!