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Post Sat Sep 27, 2014 3:04 pm

Open hoods?

Badly worded title, lemme try something else.

I've heard people asking about hoods made of Plexiglas and plastic, but I was curious about other stuff. I've noticed on the Falcon body, you can make an engine big enough to pop out of the hood, and it makes for a great visual, are there plans to make that a more intentional feature? Maybe set how deep and how far back the engine sits? I know the option for blowers will never come because that not practical for a car company to do such a silly thing. But I think it would be a great idea for muscle cars and hyper-cars to have the ability to have parts of the engine exposed and have it be calculated into the cooling figures.
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Post Sun Sep 28, 2014 1:06 am

Re: Open hoods?

Like a shaker hood scoop? Why is that better than the one we have?
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Post Sun Sep 28, 2014 1:29 am

Re: Open hoods?

With the exception of ancient abarth 500's most engines are covered. Some are viewable through glass but its such a tiny percent that I don't see it being worth while. I like the idea of shaker hoods and exposed air filters but I'm okay without.
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Post Fri Oct 03, 2014 10:54 am

Re: Open hoods?

Breather headlights... :D
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