What do you think....
 

....of this hood

Any ideas or coments

I think it's really sweet looking, but I would only run a hood like that if a had a body kit

I dig it Mike.

Rice.

mebbe its my imagination, but the side mirrors look tiny in comparison to the rest of the body...

Debbie: the mirrors on the car are carbon fiber also (and are very small)


sperry & AtomicLabMonkey: are you saying its rice "rice" or could you see it better if you knew I would paint it to match the rest of the car? and also do something about the grills?

OH NOES!!!!!!1! 1S teH YU0RS M1RR0r5 ShR1NKIn6!!?

I think its pretty damn tight... Id rock it.

That is a sick ass hood I have all ready been in contact with Seibon they seen easy to do business with. :D

looks like someone had one set of 22b vents and one leftover... so they split it between both sides...


IBJC

Well speaking for myself, things it's got going against it are:

1) Unpainted C/F
2) Decals all over it
3) Needless vents/grilles all over it
4) There is no number 4.

Having it painted might help. I actually like the way the front bodywork looks on that car, and the air dam looks like it would actually be functional on track... if it weren't for the enormous hole cut in the front of it.

Its all about unpainted CF.

1) Paint is heavy (:roll: I'd want it painted too)
2) It's a show car... hell even race cars are covered in decals. Decals = money at that level... i.e. this isn't just some dude's ride
3) Turbo motor = retarded hot. Those grills/holes used to be *stock* on the '98-'01 body style, albeit not so big... check out a rally car's hood!

And what "enormous" hole are you talking about? The one that cools the radiator, or the ones for the brake ducting? :P

All that said. It's still rice. Pay $2000 for a C/F hood that's not hardly lighter than the stock aluminum hood is a waste. You want a non rice hood with the above advantages, then get a sawsall and cut some heat evacuation vents in the stocker. That's not rice.

Under all that is a Silver STi...Hmmmm? I think it looks sweet, I like the front lip, very BTCC

1. I would paint it for sure....atleast after a few months :lol:
2. No decals required for easy install 8)
3. Yes, thier are more vents than needed but with a short ram intake on the passanger side air flow should be great hehe cold short ram :D
4. I just don't know how to respond

and thx for the concerns :D

Umm, the enormous one in the front. :lol: I would seriously doubt the car needs that much lower opening area for the radiator, it looks way bigger than the stock WRX opening. Your car barely breaks a sweat in 105*+ temperatures too with the stock front bodywork. The bigger that hole is, the less downforce the front will have... course, they could put a wire grill over it and then you could just tape it up like they do in winston cup according to what weather you were running in.

It's only half as big as it looks. The top half of it is covered by a black plastic piece that's over the big ol' bumper required by US crash regulations. They just did a good job of making it hard to see on that car in the picture.

Oh and Prodrive *does* make that wire grill you're talking about, specifically for downforce:

[img:643c3af538=600]http://store1.yimg.com/I/fastwrx_1776_3199627[/img:643c3af538]

Ahh, I see it now.

And those wire grilles are sweet!

well i like the rally hood also but who has it? and is that where you came up with the $2000 number becuase the one i'm looking at is atleast half that price.......just becuase its an after-market hood doesnt mean i'm trying to shave pounds off my car but maybe make it look more unique

$1000 put into other parts will buy you a whole lot more speed than that hood will. :wink:

You just defined rice. :P :lol:

Then your wing is Scott cause were you saying that you have never gone over 120. I guess that wing is just there for looks I guess your part of the rice crew. I might have put stuff on my car to make it look better and I dont think its rice at all.

Yep. It's rice. I admitted it the day I put it on there. The best excuse I can come up with is that it should help reduce drag a bit. But then, so would a lip on the trunk.

You truck shaves quite a few pounds of your car Evan. So your trunk could be argued that it isn't rice.

If you spend say 2,000$ on a hood, then paint it causing the hood to weight slightly less then the stock, that could be considered rice.

As for Scott, I am shooting a guess out here, but I would assume that his new wing also weighs less then the stock wing, which is a weight benefit from the start. As for aerodynamics and that wing, I have no clue at what speed makes it a benefit.

Weight reduction is weight reduction, and every pound counts... but when you're working with a limited budget (as most of us are), perhaps one should consider the Dollar/pound ratio of whatever one is thinking about buying. If a new hood shaves 5lbs off the front end, but costs $1500 once it's bought, painted & put on the car, that's $300/lb. :lol: I can think of quite a few better uses for that kind of money...

Hey, at least it will do something if/when you start running track events with that car.

$1000 ...$2000...Who the fuck cares.

The STi is already fast as HELL. If I had an STi I would do absolutely nothing in regards to power mods. I have had my WRX for a year now with no power mods; only suspension and RICE. Mike, that hood is pretty killer. Personally I don't like the unfinshed look of CF except on a black car( 8) ). I would rather see you go with a wicked set of new wheels which I'm sure you will eventually but that hood is pretty cool and will defiantly stand out(get reved on even more).

I love the look of CF and every pound counts. I saved over 20 pounds with my CF trunk. I think stock with wing is 27 pounds CF no paint 5 pounds. 8) The other pluss is that I did not pay $1000 for I paid $0 for it. 8) :lol: Right now I have taken over 100 pounds off of my car with all the seats still in it. 8)

I agree with Evan, its not only light, its hella stylish :)

Re: What do you think....
 

The hood looks nice because of the body Kit..Maybe once it's on a SAID Blue STi .. It will make a difference. Meaning because grey/Silver and black almost resemble each other the Body kit offsets the difference,But once on a WR Blue STi(WRX) it will be better matched....
Mike, To answer your question, I love the way it looks :wink:

I guess my thing would be show and go to some degree. It's a STi and I don't want it to look like everyone else's. All I know is there are a few things I want to do to make it look a little different and changing the hood would be the first thing to do it.

Mike !!! What is the one QUOTE I live by and say it ..time and time again ....
Make it your own !!! Be original... the hell with everyone else... 8)

I agree, that hood in Blue would look really slick. I like it. Dress up mods= A O K ! If race mods are not your priority, then so be it, dress up stuff like that is bad ass too. Seriously, the first dress Up Id do to an STi, is a mild body kit, like the factory one, or even something like the one posted.

Make it look OG

does anyone know where I could find the Rally hood at? I do like that one also but can't find it any help

I know where you can find the '02-'03 rally hoods, maybe they do the STi now also...

http://www.writerguy.com/primitive/i...shoodsmall.jpg

is that a fiberglass hood?

It's not based off the GC hood. It's based off the Cusco bugeye hood.

JC

<----- Does Not Like Fiberglass :x

That fiberglass hood probably weighs twice as much as your stock hood. It looks ok put I wouldn't put it on my car.

I want those grills... Any good deals out there on them? I think they would look eally good in black...

pkzero used to make them but he Works for JIC now. I guess he does not make CF parts any more. I wonder if thats why JIC service is so crap now I read in some thread ho is shady. :shock:

Evan's info's out of date:

pkzero has been out of business for like over a year. The guy over there is Kevin (not BAN SUVS... another Kevin). Kevin got a job working for JIC USA as their tech rep, and due to the conflict of interest of being a JIC vendor and an employee, he shut down pkzero. Later, he left JIC USA because they're dolts over there (I heard some drama went down, but I have no details), but he continues to be *the source* for good info on JICs... he knows 1000x more than the JIC tech reps that replaced him. Kevin's name over at NASIOC now is "FJP", and he's a nice guy. He helped me A TON with my whole JIC issue.

The reason JIC USA's service went to crap is *because* Kevin left. Not because he worked there... he single handedly made JIC USA profitable IMO. Rumor has it, he's starting up another shop of sorts pretty soon... maybe the rebirth of pkzero?

As far as the grills... they're made by Prodrive. I don't know who sells 'em state-side, but they're *not* cheap, since they're made in England by Prodrive for the limited edition Prodrive WRX that's sold only in England.

Oh well thats all the info I could find on him cause we was the only person that was making the CF drop in WRC vent that I know of right now.

BTW Scott's JIC's are out of date. :lol:

How do you figure? The new JIC FLT-A1US's are entry level coilovers with only 5 way adjustment (in stead of my 15), no pillowballs or topmounts, and cheaper dampers that have the adjuster on the top (which usually means they're not the better inverted design).

However, they look like a wicked good deal since they'll probably be selling for under $1000. Figure $1200 for a set of JIC FLT-A1US with STi top mounts... not a bad setup! But not as good at the FLT-A2s I've already got.

Scott's JIC's are pretty bad ass... better than mine for the Bilsteins, and mine are good.

I was just saying so cause they have new ones. Tein has 16 levels of adjusting and EDFC so the Tein's are better. Not to mention the teflon coating so they will not rust. :D :P