I`ve had my GT a year now and the only thing thats bugged me is the fact that it has a hood scoop that does **** all.

So. I now have a hood scoop that although isn`t a shaker, it serves some sort of purpose.

Took the heat cover off and removed it. This was underneath.



Took the honeycomb `fake grille` from the scoop cover and drilled out every hole then put it back in.



Drilled a hole in the corner of the hood blanked panel and used a jigsaw to cut out the panel piece. Used a file to smooth off and make perfect.



This is the view through the cut out. Straight onto my plenum.



Cut out the appropriate heat space in heat shield/sound deadening material to allow air in/heat out. Taped up with correct heat proof alloy tape.



Same tape was applied round edges of cut out and new modified hood scoop added before heat/sound proofing under hood. Gap was then joined with the tape for neat job.



Car now looks EXACTLY like it did before but now that scoop serves a purpose (albeit a small one).



Took the car a good run. Lifted hood to check for dead insects on my plenum. None. BUT. Plenum wasn`t roasting hot like it normally was so that can`t be a bad thing.


Comments welcome.

 

If you drive in the rain make sure there isn't water settling into the cops. Another guy did that with a heat extracting hood and it caused him issues. Other than that, it should slightly cool intake temps which is always good.

 

lol, not much chance of that happening mate. Fair weather car only. Its seen rain only once in the last year and that was an accident.

 

You did a hellava job on that, I've been wanting to do that to mine but worried about the rain. Looks GOOD!!!!

 

Thanks bubba. Its one of those things that gets as much bad press as good if you know what I mean.

I`ve read about some guys doing it and the scoop blowing off but in they cases the front grille has been removed altogether and one other dumb bastard just took the grille out and didn`t even cut a hole in the hood so the air rushing in had nowhere to go.

I suppose I could tiger seal it as well for extra security. I`ll keep an eye on it but its already had a 3 figure run with no problems.

 

dam certainly put some effort into that! But awesome work none the less. You should do something like that for the side scoops like the 94/95's had with 'functional' brake cooling side scoops.