dfinke23

Where is the best place to buy a vented hood? Anyone have one they want to get rid of?
Fiberglass would be fine. No need for CF, I just want to remove some heat and maybe add a little downforce. The WC style hood is the only one I have seen that I like, but $1600 for fiberglass seems a little steep.

John Shiels

LGM or ACP

Falcon

Buy a set of louvers for ~$40 and save yourself a bunch of $ and time. I did that to mine and it does evacuate some heat. I also just bought a vented hood and just finished grinding out the vents. I bought that for aero, not for heat extraction.

Here's a picture of the louvers I installed on my regular hood:

dfinke23

Anyone buy direct from ACP that would like to chime in? Any issues? Turn time?

GOTHAM VETTE

I bought mine directly from ACP, and they are one of the best vendors I have ever dealt with! Kerry is a great person to work with and delivers a great product, I can't recall the exact manufacturing time but I believe it was around 6 weeks or so.

Fit and finish of the hood were excellent and my body guys were really impressed at how little prep work it needed (that's for the carbon piece).

jstout

Also looking for a hood to extract heat. Thanks. Jerry

davidfarmer

I'm with Jody, lots of options for modifying a stock hood for under $100. Mine are from JC Whitney.

I've also used ACP's stuff, and back in my hardcore racing days, the finish was not very good. However, that was before they started doing a lot of street cars, and I'm sure they improved a lot. Don't get me wrong, their CF was always strong and light, just was a bit rough around the edges. I've heard they are much cleaner now.

Racer-38

my whole race car is ACP CF panels. ACP is a business that at any given time is really busy or its not. I've called Kerry and ordered parts that were in stock and went out that afternoon...and I've had to wait because they had to fabricate the part. Every part I have purchased has fit well.

If you are thinking of changing the hood on a street car that you use for the track as well, there is no way I would "cut" louvers into the hood. It will look like sh*t! If your car is a race car or dedicated track car then cutting holes in the hood is OK. I remember Aaron Pfadt's car was running hot at the NASA nationals.....he took a jigsaw and cut 2 big holes in the hood to cool it off.

Call ACP....do it right.
here is the part # for a C6 World Challenge Louvered Hood(fiberglass) C6/A0021-FG-WC 1,595.00

Todd Z

You can also try Black Dog Speed Shop. They are a supporting vendor here. Call Ray at 847-634-7534.

96CollectorSport

You could always buy some louvers and do it yourself, that's what we did with our TTS/ST2 car.

http://www.hrpworld.com/index.cfm?tp...ction=category

Falcon

I agree, if it's a street car, make it look nice. My louvers on are on a race car.

0Randy@DRM

The last hood was the part number Racer-38 gave the forum. It showed up in under two weeks. We bolted it on, check the gaps, removed and sprayed. It turned out great!!!

Randy

dvandentop

daniel i got a pic of a cool one last night without the big nasty cowl section staring you in the face. will email it over when i get time.

yeah i need a hood too!

AtomicZ

My un-painted ACP hood I got through DRM. Fits nicely and above all is functional

0Randy@DRM

Next time your car is around the shop. I'm going spray it with semi flat black

Randy

ssdeuce

So doing this the benefit is? Lower oil and water temps? Aero?

0Randy@DRM

Yep all of those!

AtomicZ

What you do in your spare time and gratis is fine by me.

kentz06

It has been engineered and wind tunnel tested. You don't want the holes too far back...

Dean

Racer-38

Randy........
you're doing work for free?! Great......I have a whole list of things I need done, I'll drop the car by soon.