ENG: Home made hood spacers

[MclovinRR]

EDITED:
sorry guys i know you will all hate me for this but i just thought of a free way to do this using parts from the car.....
FREE Hood Spacers....
FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS AND HAVE SEEN CARS WITH IT.....
IT'S NOT JUST A FAD OR A "JDM" THING TO DO...
This give a better intake charge
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hood spacers help keep the bay cooler by expelling the trapped hot air that sits under your hood while your at a stop light n such....

This keeps your intake piping cooler (dont know if thats what makes the difference in the charge) keeps your ac lines cooler helps with keeping your ac system so that the lines keep cooler on the outside and with your fuel lines and such keeps them cooler too....


THINGS YOU WILL NEED..

1. A friend to help you hold the hood ( or with everyday life)
2.A 10MM socket with a 1/4 ratchet
3. 4 bushings from the stock resonator box with the bolts
4. Tape measure or ruler.
5. A LOT OF PATIENCE....

Before we get started take your tape measure/ruler and measure the gap between your hood and the fender that way at the end you can reposition your hood to the stock distance....

P.S; I WILL NOT BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR ANY INJURIES, BROKEN PIECES/PARTS WHILE ATTEMPTING THIS DIY.... TUNE AT YOUR OWN RISK.....

ON WITH THE SHOW

1)Now the first step is removing your intake resonator box from behind your bumper and removing the 2 bushings from it. if you have a buddy with the same car then you can take his/hers too if the have a short ram/ CAI installed


3)Remove 2 bolts at a time that connect the hinge to the hood , have your friend hold the hood unless youd like a smashed windshield, hand, or skull....


4)PLace the bushings between the hinge and the hood like so with the bolt holding it in place like so.


5)Now tighten the bolts just slightly so that you can align the hood to the proper gap allignment


6) Close the hood and measure and adjust the hood to the distance from when you started then using your trusty sidekick, have them lift the hood slowly. make sure
they dont push pull or tug on the hood to misalign it or your just gonna have to do adjust it all over again then tighten the first bolts on the front on both sides, Lift the hood all the way up and lift the back screws..and there's your home made hood spacers.. enjoy kids.......



THE END............

[weldingtodd88]

pics?

[acc0rd_adicti0n]

pics?

x2 it sounds like a pretty good writeup but idk i wanna see pics...close ups too

[weldingtodd88]

pics would be sweet so i could see exactly whats needed to do, i LOVE cheap diy's

[MclovinRR]

pics will be up on friday night gentlemen... i need to get my cam back from my brother so i can show you guys step by step......

[RacH22]

DO YOU HAVE A VOICE IMODULATION?!?
http://www.clipshack.com/Clip.aspx?key=5CAFD7C894F4C17C

heh...the caps hurt.. can you edit that when you add pictures so I can read it? :P

[tommi]

Caps Sensitive.

[MclovinRR]

yeah sorry guys my caps button was stuck n i couldn't get it to shut off until a little while ago... i'll be sure to change it over k fellas??

[weldingtodd88]

sweet thread man ill deff. do this when i get some cash and you put pics up

[MclovinRR]

sweet thread man ill deff. do this when i get some cash and you put pics up

thnx bro ill get some pix up on fri.... thats when i can get my cam back

[TheNextEpisode]

When your engine is running, the engine would run quite hot if it weren't for the cooling system.

As we all know, as soon as the engine reaches a certain prime operating temperature, the thermostat kicks the fans on and allows coolant to flow through the engine to keep it right at that prime temperature.

My question is, what is the point of raking the hood?

Say that raking the hood really does lower engine bay temperatures. The thermostat won't open and fans won't run for a little while longer, until the engine is up to temperature. And that's assuming that raking the hood causes lower engine bay temperatures. I'm fairly skeptical of that claim as well.

I mean the fans and thermostat will keep the engine running at roughly proper temperatures whether ambient temperature is 30 degrees or 110 degrees, and I'd assume that that has a lot bigger effect on engine temperature than if the hood is raised an inch in the back. I guess my point is that the upper temperature limit of a properly running engine is capped by the thermostat (and fans at idle), not by how much airflow there is over the block.

Either way, the OP put some time in the post, so props for that. I'm just hoping that someone can straighten out my doubts. Maybe it's for lowering engine bay temperatures so that the intake charge is cooler? I'm just not sure how its going to lower engine temperatures, and how lower engine temperatures would even be beneficial.

[weldingtodd88]

thats all im really trying to get is cooler intake charge

[MclovinRR]

ok check this out fellas did a little more research....lol

YES, doing so does give a better intake charge
and i read into the whole thing wrong before i apologize....
hood spacers help keep the bay cooler by expelling the trapped hot air that sits under your hood while your at a stop light n such....

i read that it keeps your intake piping cooler (dont know if thats what makes the difference in the charge) keeps your ac lines cooler helps with keeping your ac system so that the lines keep cooler on the outside and with your fuel lines and such keeps them cooler too....

now i'm getting a digital thermostat to put on my dash and run the sensor into the bay to see if there happens to be a temperature difference while driving... we'll see what happens kids...

[TheNextEpisode]

now i'm getting a digital thermostat to put on my dash and run the sensor into the bay to see if there happens to be a temperature difference while driving... we'll see what happens kids...

Cool!

Good effort going into this.

[slammed4thgen]

there is one of these threads already.

hood stand off



i used 2 skateboard bearings on all four bolts.