Finished Ram Air Hood
#1
Hey all, I'm posting some pics of my new hood, painted and finished. The hood is a RK Sport Ram Air Hood, it's fully functional, and mates right up to my Steeda CAI. Thanks for all your ideas on how to paint it! Now, I'm going to paint the rear spoiler black, and the area in between the tail lights, I'll also be putting stripes along the sides of her (on the very bottom). Hope you like!
#2
I've read a lot of negative comments regarding that hood. Did you have any problems with fit and finish? I do like the looks but a lot of people have mentioned how bad the fit and finish was.
#4
Originally posted by adrenalin@March 22, 2005, 2:08 PM
I've read a lot of negative comments regarding that hood. Did you have any problems with fit and finish? I do like the looks but a lot of people have mentioned how bad the fit and finish was.
I've read a lot of negative comments regarding that hood. Did you have any problems with fit and finish? I do like the looks but a lot of people have mentioned how bad the fit and finish was.
I read the same posts, but haven't had the same problems. The alignment, finishing and painting only cost me $434. To fit it, we had to lossen the bolts on the hinges, to move everyhting forward a little bit, but it only took a couple of hours to have it perfect. I have absolutely no complaints about the hood. I've had it at 130mph and the hood only lifts about 1/4", which is comparable to the lift I was getting with the stock hood. I'm not sure why so many people hav had problems with this thing, they probably should have sent it back and gotten a new one.
#7
How does the car feel while stomping on it? Can you tell a difference performance wise over the stock hood? Any gains I imagine, would be felt on the road since most dyno's are ran with the hood up.
BTW, car looks wicked!!!!!!!!
nick
BTW, car looks wicked!!!!!!!!
nick
#14
Shelby GT350 Member
Originally posted by Stugots22@March 22, 2005, 3:40 PM
Hey all, I'm posting some pics of my new hood, painted and finished. The hood is a RK Sport Ram Air Hood, it's fully functional, and mates right up to my Steeda CAI. Thanks for all your ideas on how to paint it! Now, I'm going to paint the rear spoiler black, and the area in between the tail lights, I'll also be putting stripes along the sides of her (on the very bottom). Hope you like!
Hey all, I'm posting some pics of my new hood, painted and finished. The hood is a RK Sport Ram Air Hood, it's fully functional, and mates right up to my Steeda CAI. Thanks for all your ideas on how to paint it! Now, I'm going to paint the rear spoiler black, and the area in between the tail lights, I'll also be putting stripes along the sides of her (on the very bottom). Hope you like!
Anyway , I wanted to give you a heads up on it that Dario at Steeda told me about. When I had it on for the trial fit last week , I took it by to show him. He really like the way that it fit up with the CAI. The next thing he did was to check in the latch area and said there was no metal plate behind it and that I needed hood pins. Steeda puts a metal plate behind the latch area on their hoods to reinforce it and these hoods don't have that. He said that because of all the air flow that the 05 mustang has in the front end , that on the racing circuit the hoods had been blowing off at the high speeds they attained. These were the factory hoods and not fiberglass ones like these , so I'm having the body shop install pins. Thought you might want to know about it ...
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How does your steeda cai hook up to the ram air hood. I thought tubing went straight from throttle body location to tubing to maf sensor to filter with cover. How do you get from that to attaching to your hood if you dont mind letting me know. Does it come with different tubing or gaskets etc.
#19
Shelby GT350 Member
Originally posted by sodaman@March 24, 2005, 2:15 AM
How does your steeda cai hook up to the ram air hood. I thought tubing went straight from throttle body location to tubing to maf sensor to filter with cover. How do you get from that to attaching to your hood if you dont mind letting me know. Does it come with different tubing or gaskets etc.
How does your steeda cai hook up to the ram air hood. I thought tubing went straight from throttle body location to tubing to maf sensor to filter with cover. How do you get from that to attaching to your hood if you dont mind letting me know. Does it come with different tubing or gaskets etc.
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Steve, I realize this post is now over 3 months later, but do you have any pictures of the completed hood? I'm thinking of getting the RK Sport Ram Air Hood and there is just not a lot of info or pictures of it that I've found on this site or others.
Thanks!
Thanks!