Damn that's looking great !!!!
Thanks Karsten.:beer:
One thing I wanted to do to my hood is adding the stinger scoop on top of the L88 just like Panic did a few years ago..... But until I get my house finished and moved in all my car stuff is on hold....
I wonder if the Stinger plus those louvers is too much..... At some point it is looking too much like the Corvette Summer hood.....LOL
Ok, let's play backyard engineers (drunk on a golf kart) if you don't mind.
-A stinger scoop is supposed to Let the filter gobble up all the air it can while making room for some monstruous ram intake.
-My louvers are "supposed" to let hot cooling air out of the engine bay, and maybe have some aero effect (that's the drunk part).
So if any of those apparatus ever function like we envisioned them it would let the intake recycle hot air from the radiator.
Anyway, we know it's all about the badass look, and on that domain I'm from a different school.
To be honest, it I know I ended here I would have take the time to retro fit a '80 hood.
That's how I see it : by the mid 70's, with the Vettes EPA-choked to death, designers had to come up with some sort of compensation, hence the bulging hood.
So macho-cucumber-in-the-pants.
If I could make the hood flatter, I would, especially if you put an LS engine.
To me a high-rise hood Vette is a muscle car, while a flat hood Vette is a sport car.
Plus, I don't know, I kinda like to see where I'm driving to.
May I had all this babbling about hood size don't apply to REAL racing Vette, where it all about function.
Of course this is just a personal esthetic options, like the one you would expect from some snotty Frenchman.
Of it's just me who can't help conceptualizing.
That's why I've always been unimpressed bu the L88 hood, but see the LT1 hood as pinnacle of beauty.
It's so elegant and subtle.
Surely my version is much wilder, but I want to keep some of its essence.
Here's the lastest example, some mocking up tonight :
Not bad huh?
Well, I don't like it. It's cool, but too much egg-crate, the initial shape get buried under the square shapes.
