Im looking into molding a hood scoop on. For REAL Forced Air with an optional 50/50 blocking for heavy rain, Mainly to force cooling to the engine and force air to intake.

does this idea sound right?.

ive never seen a hood scoop. anyone try this?.

thanks.M-dubya

 

i think a functional hood scoop would be vry hard to make because of where our intake is located, but if you manage to do that and make the hood with scoop conservative and not overly flashy, i think you might find some buyers...

 

i dont think it should be quite that difficult. maybe construct a hood inlet similar to how the GTR vspec II has it, and then route it to the intake.

 

i forget what company makes them, but someone makes an attachment for mustangs that mounts on the underside of the hood where the scoop is and attaches to their airbox. try and find that and you may have a better idea of what youre gonna have to do.

 

Cervini's. forgot their website though

 

I've seen a small, not too flashy, scoop on the old 300ZX turbo right around the same location as would be required for the Maxima's intake. Was this a functional hood scoop? Could this one be used on a Maxima?

 

this isn't a very hard idea...just take the hood to a body shop, have them cut a hole in the area of the intake's position and pop a hood scoop on there...then fabricate a cover for when it rains. now will it look good...IMO...NO!

you'll get coolerr airflow though, but do you think it will be that much more effective???

 

the problem with this is that our intake comes in off the side, not the top, so routing an airtight duct in the very small clearance to a hoodscoop would be difficult. and i don't think anyone would like a hood ike that, but if we could get someone to actually fabricate a fiberglass mold of a conservtive scoop hood, one that blends in with most of the conservative max's on this board, i think he could do well...

even a non-functional scoop hood that looked good would probably sell on this board...

it all depends on looks and price though.

 

i saw one just today on an altima at school...in the same spot (more or less) as our intake. dont know where they got it, but hey it proves that it can be done.

 

http://www.geocities.com/boostedmaxi.../turbomax7.jpg Air Intake Scoop.

http://www.geocities.com/boostedmaxi...turbomax17.jpg The Turbo Intake with the hood up..

copy and paste the links

 

still didnt work

 

it didn't work...

 

i dont think this is a bad idea if it works... itll kinda be like the celica scoop. if someone can make an attachment that goes straight to the airbox, itll be better than any hai or cai. direct ram air.

 

welcome to geocities

click the link, it wont work
delete the filename but keep the rest of the address
you will be able to get into the images dir and then you can click on the pics

geocities will work like that sometimes, just delete the filename, hit enter, and even if there isn't a main directory there, you can then type the filename in and that usually works

 

the best way to view gayocities images is:

open a new browser window... drag and drop the link that gtr_rider posted right into the address bar.

the image will load.

 

Some of them have scoops built into the side of their fender where the intake is. It might not look the best, but at least it's functional.