Added Scoop to 2005 Roadster installed by Baltimore Body Shop

 

Please tell me that it is functional and you have a filter under it passing air directly to the throttle body.
If not, it's cool anyway. Really like the design.

 

I love it.
Where did ya find that one???
I have been looking for one like on the new SRTs or like LL drives on NCIS/LA.
Good job.

 

I like seeing interesting mods on our cars. Squirrel Crusher

 

Looks very nice, sort of remindes me of a 96 "SS" Camaro scoop, or a shorter version of a 1970 AAR Cuda scoop.
Losing the hood "Spine" is less noticeable on a roadster than on a coupe.
How did they do it? It looks like it's glass, did they make the whole hood out of glass?
Be prepared for even more stares than usual.lol


Ala-xfire, a truly "functional" hood scoop must sit high enough to be above the 2" (give or take) layer of "dead air" that envelopes the car as it's moving through the atmosphere. There are a few notable exceptions, Mid 60's Comet, 68 Hurst Olds, and early "Formula" Firebird hood scoops all sit far enough forward to be more useful.

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The sort of scoop that works better would be something like the 1970 T/A Challenger, and the scoop the 1969, 440-6-pack Road Runner's had.
Most all scoops of the muscle car era were essentially cosmetic. Even if they were actually "sealed" to the underside of the hood, then about the best you could expect was at least the engine could "inhale" some cooler outside air. But the increase in performance was negligible. In reality a cowl induction hood draws more CFM than most scoops.
I'm just a fan of Scoops, that's why mine is non-functional.

 

They did a great job, it looks great. In fact your whole car looks great.

 

It's just for show non-functional just like the look had the glass worked into the hood

 

Looks nice, in fact it looks better than nice. it gives the car a more sporty look,, the only problem i see is,, ,,now people that say isn't that a crossfire? will say what kind of car is that, is it a new 2016 model, your answer is to be ,I don't know, my (wife), (husband), ( son), (daughter),got it for me for my birthday and i don't have a birthday any time soon.

 

True, but it would alleviate the "heat soak" we see with the current CAI's employed. This would keep the IAT's closer to ambient, and yes I do realize there is little performance gain, but every little bit helps.
Besides, it would be really neat at car shows to have the hood raised and let everyone see that it was functional.
Just day dreaming, I guess.

 

[QUOTE=ala_xfire;834920]True, but it would alleviate the "heat soak" we see with the current CAI's employed. This would keep the IAT's closer to ambient, and yes I do realize there is little performance gain, but every little bit helps.
Besides, it would be really neat at car shows to have the hood raised and let everyone see that it was functional.
Just day dreaming, I guess.[/QUOTE

I don't think heat soak is much of a problem on the NA cars. But as you said, any venting is still good.
The only problem with keeping your hood up at car shows, is then nobody notices the scoop.
Somewhere here on the forum there is a photo taken at Carlisle of a long line of Crossfires with their hoods sticking straight up, except one......mine.

 

His comment was that with the hood up you could see that it was a functional hood and not just a cosmetic addition.
Personally I do not like non functioning do dads on cars, I think a weak spot in the design of the Crossfire is the hokey grille things on the side of each fender. I have often thought they should be filled in and forgotten. These things are just like stick on portholes.
PS
You can see that I added the ] to the end of the ala_xfire quote.

 

Dave if you really don't like the fender strakes that much, then lose them. Chas did. Find a couple fenders from a salvage yard, send them to any good body shop, and make them disappear. All it takes is $$.
Or spend some more $$ and make em functional. But would the cost of the modification be worth the negligible return on your investment.
My point about functional hood scoops basically being worthless, (unless they are tall enough) is just my opinion after testing at the drag strip with the same exact scoop. No performance gain what so ever on a car that was a very consistent performer. But I still like the way they look on some cars.
On a classic XKE, or a vintage Gull Wing Mercedes, it would be a sacrilege. On an original 427 AC Cobra, it would look naked without one.
Since two of the three cars the Creator had in mind when he designed the Crossfire were available with (functional and non-functional scoops) I figured no harm, no foul.
Your thoughts "obviously" may vary.

 

I think it looks great!

 

I like it functional or not. I agree that uneccessary doo-dads don't trip my trigger but I am not going to remove those that are already there. I don't consider a scoop a doo-dad, they can be a nice cosmetic addition and this one looks great.

 

I really like it
Looks like it belongs there
That shop does nice work

 

I think it works great ,but with any addition to a car that is not standard it comes down to personal choice.

 

Very Nice add, also very nice car.

 

Nice. All you need now are some gauges visible to the passenger compartment showing at the back side of the scoop into the passenger compartment.

 

PNA, are you suggestion something like this?

https://www.google.com/search?q=1970...ml%3B670%3B419

 

PNA, are you suggestion something like this?

https://www.google.com/search?q=1970...ml%3B670%3B419