anyone ever try this? did it work for you?

 

No. They look like *** and you'll constantly be having people say to you.... "Hey, did you know your hood is open?"

 

excuse my newbiness, whats a hood spacer?

 

ROFL

Is this a joke? If you're not doing it for looks (it looks gay, this is not a "to each his own" situation) then you have terrible taste. If you're doing it to help ventilate under the hood temps, I'd only have one question... Do you have some sort of basket ball sized turbo you need to keep cool? Regardless, there would most likely be no measureable difference in performance. People are actually paying $100+ for this crap! Yikes. I'm in the wrong business!

 

Hondas do this and it looks terrible.

 

Hood spacers are basicly washers inbetween the hood and hinge. Lifting the back end of the hood up to vent the heat.

 

More technicaly, they are a handful of washers and bushings. I swear I'm about to quit my job, go to the hardware store and grab a fist full of those parts, throw them in a box and lablel them "hood spacers" and start selling em.

 

ive actually seen it done, and they used 1 inch square stock, drill holes, and slap it on (my friends eclipse) and it requred 1 washer (each side) ....... idk, i thought ide see if it really worked.

he also took the rubber seal out from the back of the engin bay.

for him, it seemed to make no difference.

 

washers are and extremely cheap easy way to go 2

 

wow.....havent seen any, but i can already picture it and it cant be good at all.

 

And what if it rains? Think about the dust... Gah....

 

LMAO

I thought he was talkin about the ones to adjust the height of the hood that are in all a32s

 

Jime does this. He's the master. Ask him for a how-to and/or some pictures and his opinion.

 

hood spacers =

 

I did it on my old B13 and plan on doing it again to my new B13. Longer bolts and some nuts do the trick. Its not that noticeable looks wise. As for heat loss, any bit helps.

 

If it's truly a drag car and not a DD, why not remove the headlight(s) or add a scoop/fab up something that provides a measurable difference? You stand to gain a lot of imrovement with the location of that turbo and a good vent setup.

 

i dont think it looks clean. like the car was in an accident and the lines arent matched up right. but some one try it and post pics though.

 

just did it and ill post pics in a lil bit....

for some reason... i kinda like it

 

If I saw someone's hood open in the back like that I'd get a crow bar, pry open the hood from the back side, and steal the engine.

 

I have seen a few civics doing it and i doubt there will be any noticeable gain from the tiny space you make. Better options are functional cowels/ram air hoods( which dont look right on a maxima, or a good heat wrap of the exhaust. Heatwarpping the exhaust will give noticeable gains if you are realy in need of coolling down your engine temp( hai). It will also assist the flow of your exhaust gasses but im not sure that will make a huge difference in hp. there is a small writeup of this on motorvate.ca

 

upon further research i find someone saying thats its not even really for heat, its for engine swaps and more clearance.

 

It was common on g35's and 350z when the larger intake spacer was used.

 

 

 

personally dont like but hey its ur car you do what u like to it. you have any pics of the hinges with the hood open?

 

not yet.... ill get some up in just a sec though

 

no no no its a GAY honda thing

 

Its amazing this thread is getting more attention than most of the threads in here...

Anyhow, no. Its ugly, serves virtually no purpose, and costs money.

 

Just a bit extreme wouldn't you say?

I can only see this benefiting someone who drag races a lot, or autocrosses. Anything else is just

FWIW, there are ways to achieve the same thing w/o raising the hood like this....

 

rockin OE DSM wheels! FTW! I had the same thing on mine when I first bought it

 

see..... the car looks like it was in an accident