SRT hood scoop went bye bye

blackmega3500

blackmega3500

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So what does cold dense air, 115mph, and poorly designed Chrysler parts leave you with....

An ugly phucking hole in you hood! Although underhood temps are great!!!! Lol

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Sunofa***** just flew right off... made a couple passes back around the freeway looking for it and nope, couldn't locate.

The oem replacements are $300 no matter where you look which is just insane, so fabbing my own!
 
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I can see if I can find a used one if you want.. although a fabbed one would be sweet.


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Well, it looks like my SRT hood will forever be in storage, if that's the case.
Who designs a part that's unable to take 115 mph passes? ;)

Mark.
 
jasonc said:
Been smokin those 22.5's.
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Lmao....

Actually so worn right now my wife doesn't like it in the rain, understandably so..... I temporarily justify it as "highway slicks". They definitely need to be changed!

The biggest bummer was I had a lot of rpm to give being only round 24-2500.
 
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PRINCETON_JAKE said:
Mines been fine to 130+
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Yeah, I've never seen it happen. All over the actual SRT ram gassed forums though. Definitely make sure the bolts are tight, and maybe add some silicone sealant!

One guy said his flew up and shattered his windshield. F that!
 
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Looks like the four plastic tabs on the front just ripped right off! Maybe just put a piece of tape over the leading edge before running. I bet wind got under that lip and started pulling pretty hard.
 
CorneliusRox said:
Looks like the four plastic tabs on the front just ripped right off! Maybe just put a piece of tape over the leading edge before running. I bet wind got under that lip and started pulling pretty hard.
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This is exactly my thought!

There's also 4 bolt that hold the back part down, but yanked right out.
 
Well considering the SRT hood is basically a giant wind sail and I don't feel like wasting over $300 for a poorly designed piece of plastic.....

I've decided to do something different.....

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Using 28ga steel and plasma cutting the lettering put which will serve as hood venting and air inlet for maintaining cooler underhood temps, and plan on back laying the lettering with mesh that matches the grill.

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If I recall on the viper truck forum somebody was making these scoops inlets out of carbon fiber.

And yes the srt hoods are good for helping expell engine bay heat. This was told to me from one guy who was part of the aerodynamic testing on the prototypes. I was gonna do the srt hood on my tube truck, after speaking to that engineer, we changed plans.
 
RacinDuallie said:
If I recall on the viper truck forum somebody was making these scoops inlets out of carbon fiber.

And yes the srt hoods are good for helping expell engine bay heat. This was told to me from one guy who was part of the aerodynamic testing on the prototypes. I was gonna do the srt hood on my tube truck, after speaking to that engineer, we changed plans.
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Yeah it acts like more of a parachute and increases drag instead of the opposite. I'd put money on it that all the race trucks that run an open scoop srt10 hood would shave some time off using a standard sealed hood.

This may have been one of the threads you were thinking of.

Hood scoop insert - Dodge Ram SRT-10 Forum - Viper Truck Club of America
 
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