Here you are--just the start of the nonsense.......
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Today I talked to 2 different metal fabricators about my ideas to put a hood scoop on my 928 hood.... The hoods are made of aluminium..... and very thin aluminium..... and that is the problem..... to make the subtle hood scoop for my ITB's to my specs... I was given 2 quotes....
both of them were 4-6 K!!!!!!
The 928 hood is a very complex example of production engineering....
Needless to say.... it looks like I will be changing my intake plans......
I don't see fiberglass as a solution, as the heat that the hood is exposed to would make any fiberglass solution a short lived solution.....
I'm seriously bummed to say the least... the proposed hood in my minds eye would look seriously bad to the bone with my widebody.........
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modifications are only
great in the eye of the beholder.
in this case, it's in the eye of the delusional.......
first, the hood is not any more complex that any other modern day stamped product.
second, I made a comment that fiberglass for air box/induction was a bad idea, that fabricated aluminum would be better, and all of the sudden he now agrees
---not that he would acknowledge/credit anything I suggested.
third, in his quest to have the 928 minions bow down at his feet for performing another mega dollar disaster, he is attempting to create what has already been done as evidenced in the pictures above. However, in his mind, the construction of this nonsense is to be done by stamping a new raised center portion in the hood without any understanding of how the hood is assembled, or fabricated at the factory. To create what he is looking for, the factory had invested millions in stamping machinery and molds. This is no backyard project. Ask Louie Ott about his Nizzazzzz fenders....he didn't do those in aluminum!
fourth, the raised portion is not necessary, regardless of ITB's or not. An air box can be fabbed that will flow enough air (volume) to supply his stroker without interfering in the height restrictions, and still be plumbed to supply cold/pressurized air from in front of the radiator. (fabbed alloy box w/two inlets on the front corners, connect the factory hoses and then use John Kuhn's snout/filter combo.) Yes, I've already run the CFM numbers and this example will not restrict CFM flow to north of 9000 rpm's. Remember, we are not talking about feeding a 825 CI IHRA ProStock mountain motor.....just a 394 CI small block.
fifth, his assertion that a fiberglass "hood" would succumb to heat issues is total nonsense---many factory cars over the past forty years have used fiberglass and aluminum.....without being influenced by heat. In fact, many drag cars over the past 5 decades have used hoods AND fenders, without any issues of warpage due to engine heat. Some of these today, have 600 CI plus engines running twin turbos or SC's, producing mega times more heat than any street car ever thought about producing.
this is just history repeating itself, with him doing things that don't work, and then getting pissed off at everyone else (not himself or his lack of technical knowledge) because it didn't work. His first stroker is proof of this MO.
and all he can do is get an attitude when someone (me) makes a suggestion about doing it more efficiently and for less money......
Enjoy the 5 pages reading about it....it's truly amazing to the point of being nauseous.
and the band played on.......
--Russ