I saw a good idea for a functional scoop hood on Trucks this past weekend. It was fiber glass and had the scoop which directed air down a track to an opening right above the air box. This was on a Chevy Sierra, but the principle seemed ok.

I'm about to go for a scoop hood on my 02 SR5 and before I just go with the stock sport hood which is just for looks, I thought I'd see if there was anything functional available. I did a search but only found the vacuum cleaner hose mod that looked completely retarded.

Anyone know of anything?

The only issue I could see would be water getting into the passage way, but the guy on trucks was going through water bumper deep with a wave over the hood and the truck kept going fine. I do realize that's TV though.

 

and he has a bypass valve in his intake.

 

Who's "he" ?

 

All that I've heard about making the scooped hoods functional says they aren't worth the work, and don't perform any better. IMO the most "functional" the scoop can be is blow some cold air on the top of your engine.

 

search... discussed here before.
Summary:
- no performance gains.
- additional water/dust in engine compartment

uber

 

Sorry to kinda dig this up after being idle for a while, but:

I've been thinking about fabbing a functional hood scoop for my 86 Turbo. I'm going to have the turbo mounted above the valve cover, and because I'm ditching the AFM, I was thinking about mounting a Cone filter(big one) directly to the turbo inlet.

Now because the air intake is going to be significantly higher than stock, and no where close to the original location(behind the drivers side headlight), I was thinking of a scoop. It would let me suck a lot of cold air in, and it would throw some cold air on the turbo to help it run a bit cooler. (the intercooler is going in front of the rad).

Any thoughts?

 

https://www.yotatech.com/forums/show...nctional+scoop
i did it last year. some dirt roads, but mostly street (2wd) and no issues w/ dust or the K&N.
1 trip through water deep enough to splash over the hood. rain didnt seem to wet the inside either, i checked under the hood after a drive and it was dry (evap from the heat?) washing only lets a small amount in, and i sometimes rinse the engine bay.
probably not beneficial for serious offroading.

 

This is pretty much how I'm thinking of mounting my airfilter.

Considering that the stock air intake sucks from around the headlight, I figured a scoop might be at way to go, instead of only taking in air from the engine bay.