Spring Break Project #1

Post by **rico05** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 10:59 am

Last year was skydiving, so this year is a quiet week at home w/ my roomie while my other roomie/roomie's wife (I have 2 roommates, guy and girl, that got married in December....they don't need kids, cuz they got me!!) so I thought that today I would make a run to Home Depot Racing and pick up a few things. First off, turned this:

Into this:

Then, I picked up some longer bolts and bigger spacers, and propped my hood a little more (and made it a little less ghetto of a method of execution).

Took me about 4 hours total. Write ups will be up shortly.

Post by **NIGHTfall_240sx** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 12:24 pm

damn... it looks like you prop'd the hood up a little too high.... any other pics?

Post by **Chingon** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 12:45 pm

hope you don't lose your head via decapitation... Oh wait, you already have your liscence plate on your dash...

Post by **rico05** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 12:48 pm

I can just barely squeeze my index and middle finger between the fender and hood.

Post by **Juujai** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 2:19 pm

ever hear the story of the guy that had a lifted hood getting into an accident? hood flew in through the windshield and chopped off his head?

im dead scared and wouldnt do that after reading about that. lol maybe with a carbon fiber since itll just flip or shatter.

Post by **rico05** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 2:27 pm

hahaha. Never heard that. I'll take my chances for the free cooling that I get.

Post by **JohnCantDRFT** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 2:50 pm

dude your car is bad ***

Post by **Thrwnsprkz** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 3:16 pm

Welcome to the club...lol $5 worth of hardware for something that drastically reduces engine temp = awsome... I cant wait to finnally connect my water temp gauge to accually see a reading.

I get made fun of all the time, "Its Rice" or "Dorifto tYte" ...I dont care, I can lower it anytime I want... takes all of 10 min.

Post by **rico05** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 3:26 pm

Exactly. The neat-o cool look of it is just a nice aggregate benefit.

And no, John your car is bad a$$.

Post by **own3d** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 3:30 pm

Juujai wrote:ever hear the story of the guy that had a lifted hood getting into an accident? hood flew in through the windshield and chopped off his head?

im dead scared and wouldnt do that after reading about that. lol maybe with a carbon fiber since itll just flip or shatter.

get some jdm carbon fiber bolts, theyll hold it in place

Post by **JohnCantDRFT** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 6:06 pm

thanks man. hey do you ever come down to houston? if so you should come down this weekend for that transit drift event.

Post by **Thrwnsprkz** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 6:15 pm

honestly i dont belive that "razor blade effect, hood to the head" story... their desighned to crumple, if anything I can only see a carbon hood doing something like that if it was elevated

Post by **Chingon** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 6:23 pm

hell, if the shoulder belt can rip it off, I don't see why a steel hood can't.

Post by **Axel Grungy** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 7:09 pm

i tried the propped hood on my car but it didnt look right. good idea tho for the exhaust haha. lookin good

Post by **chmercer** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 8:03 pm

hey, do cops not hastle you about having no front liscense plate if you put it in the window? ive got like 3 warnings for no front plate in texas. its such bull****, like 50 percent of cars run front liscense plate here. you never see a c5 catching **** for having that corvette plate thing in the front liscense hole.

stupid cops pulling me over just because i have a huge rice burner

Post by **Stev0n** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 5:17 am

how do you do the hood thing?? I figured you'd just loosent he bolts on the hinges and move them up, but he said he got longer bolts???

Post by **rico05** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 6:35 am

Charlie: Not really. I got popped for no plate, and I asked him (the cop) if the front bumper was my only choice. He said no, that technically, all they have to be able to see is the plate from 100 feet away. So technically, it is legal

Stevon: I used longer bolts, and steel pipe conncetors.

Bolts:

Spacer:

Post by **Ajax** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 7:52 am

That's a lot of spacing washers. I hope you've got plenty of thread through that nut.I wouldn't believe any decapitation stories from the hood either. Even if the hood were to not crumple in an accident, it would have to cut through the safety glass windshield and any A-pillar that might also be aligned- a difficult feat considering the angle of the windshield.

Post by **Stev0n** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 9:00 am

lol... okay, I know i'm a dumbass. I see it, but I don't understand how you do it (prop up the hood). Somebody explain this to me, plz. Thanks.

Post by **own3d** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 9:15 am

rico05 wrote:

im guessing that the bigger threaded part is hollow and you just put a smaller but longer stock sized bolt through it and bolt it to the hood so when you set it down the spacers well spaces the hood from the hinge

Post by **own3d** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 9:15 am

rico05 wrote:

iim guessing that the bigger threaded part is hollow and you just put a smaller but longer stock sized bolt through it and bolt it to the hood so when you set it down the spacers well spaces the hood from the hinge

Post by **rico05** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 9:36 am

Yep. There is actually more thread into the hood with the bolts I picked up than with the stock bolts, so it is actually "safer" this way. The connectors are hollow, and the bolt fits right through. You just unbolt the stock bolts that hold the hood to the hinge (two per hinge), then you put in the spacer, tighten, and there ya go! Before you tighten, lower the hood and make sure that you clear your pop-ups. I jacked up my driver's side headlight cover a bit by forgetting to check. Turned on my lights last night an CRUNCH-POP...

And FYI: According to my water temp gauge, temps are ~8-10 degrees lower with the hood popped! I took it out for a beating in the country last nite, and temp never broke 150^ F. Usually around ~160^ F.

Post by **rico05** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 9:38 am

Chingon wrote:hell, if the shoulder belt can rip it off, I don't see why a steel hood can't.

Because the belt is across your chest, and the hood has to fly through saftey glass, and penetrate through the solid A-pillars in tact to get to your head Not going to happen

Post by **Stev0n** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 9:51 am

okay, i think i understand now... thanks guys

Post by **bcar240** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 2:17 pm

lol, first thing I saw was that chimney thing and I was like, "o no, there is no way he can make an intake from that..." I was pleasantly surprised with what you did with it. A good idea and it looks nice!

Post by **Mikoriad** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 3:13 pm

HAHA Bcar240 I thought about the same thing. I was thinking, I sure hope I don't see a hole in the hood with that thing sticking out somehow.

Post by **rico05** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 5:16 pm

I had an employee try to help me find some metal to use, and the only thing we could find in the whole store was a sheet of galvanized steel used in ducting. I poked around for a while, and found that vent. COst about $5 and is about 30 gauge aluminum. Really easy to work with, and looks nice. Not too shiney like stainless would be.

Post by **chmercer** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 6:42 pm

Thrwnsprkz wrote:Welcome to the club...

woah, gangster sidepipe

Post by **Thrwnsprkz** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 7:35 pm

haha, yea... thats my pipei luv it

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