Demolition of a perfectly good Cervini hood!
 

I had an idea the other day - it may be a stupid idea but worth asking (I guess). I have a Cervini 2 1/2" Twin Turbo hood. There are non-operating vents that look like nostrils, like the Stormin' Norman hood. Would it make any sense to take my Dremel tool and cut out openings in the back of each of the "nostrils" or to take a drill and make holes to create a functioning opening so cool air can flow right through????? Am I on crack or would this be ok? :p Please answer before I damage a perfectly good hood.

I don't see why not, but remember if you're in the rain on the highway or whatever, your engine is gonna get a bunch of road grime on it all the time!!! It'd help to cool, though!

If it was me, I would have cut out the holes before I even had it painted...

So I'm not the only one who's crazy, huh? :D guess I don't have to open up the entire section of each side, maybe just drill holes??? What do you think?

I say completely cut it!!!!!!! :D

Re: Demolition of a perfectly good Cervini hood!
 

Ahh, on Stormin Norman hoods, the vents are open its a ram air hood :rolleyes:

filter?
 

Maybe you would like to manufacture a mesh/filter too that you could install. It wouldn't restrict airflow too much. I personally hate having to clean my motor a lot due to road grime. Polished valve covers and other shiny things get dirty quickly.
Good luck.

I will give it a try and try to use window screen to keep stuff from getting in while letting air in. I'll let you all know how it goes, and what I end up doing. Thanks for all the input.:)

I've heard people talk of various effects of alot of air entering the engine compartment by way other then THROUGH the radiator...

if you're not going to actulay RAM the AIR into the intake, you gain no performance... and i cant imagine that the air would really COOL the engine all that much, since most people dont have cooling problems while diriving anyway, it's usualy an idle thing. So with that I'll add this, what you end up doing is pressurizing the engine compartment... now it's not sealed off or anything but you're got extra air comming in from another source and it messes up the flow of air through the front.. granted this all may look like the balls... and I'm a big fan of ram air hoods, but it'll do only that... look cool... I cant believe that that air would provide any noticable cooling properties... I could be wrong.. as I'm sure I will find out in short time by other posters if that is infact the case.

Hmmmm? Interesting..............any ideas on this from Mr. 5.0???? :D

Hacking up your new hood
 

Leave it alone.

As already stated, just having some small holes in the hood does almost nothing for cooling and just gets dampness and dirt into the engine compartment.

There is absolutely no performance gain to be had by doing this so why bother and risk messing up the hood and creating dampness and dirt problems under it?

Leave it alone.

OK, I will leave it alone.........until I see positive performance results from doing it. Thanks.