WTB: Carbon Fiber Hood Insert w/ Scoop

[vt_maverick]

Pics would be great VXorado, appreciate it! I like the WRX scoop, would be interested to see what it looks like backwards!

[VXorado]

Here are the pics, sorry it took a while to post them.

I still need to finish up the hood insert- I want to drive the VX during the summer rather than have it in the garage so I just painted the hood insert before I was finished and will probably work on it again in the fall. You can see the paint in the last pic is a little rough and needs some work. The "reverse hood scoop" extracts air from the engine bay which I wanted for hot trail days when my engine heats up more than I like. Overall the project wasn't hard but time consuming with all the fiberglass sanding. You could do the same project with a WRX hood scoop and then wrap it in CF

[vt_maverick]

Is the insert upside down rather than backwards?

[VXorado]

Its called a "reverse hood scoop" and is made to fit in the WRX hood when a front intercooler is installed to allow hot air to escape rather than pull air into the engine bay.

[Raque Thomas]

maverick - that's my black VX with the CF insert you have pictured. The CF insert was made for a short time by a body shop I think in the North East area. Although the pictures look really good - there were issues. The thickness of the CF varied, and was obvious when you looked at the insert, there were cracks that developed around the scoop area, and the fit was uneven around the edges. I ended up going back to the factory insert because I couldn't accept the poor fit and finish of the Cf insert. So, from 20', the insert was cool, from 2', it had issues.

[vt_maverick]

Thanks for the feedback Raque, for those of us that came along well after these mods were completed and posted, it's often hard to track down how they actually worked out over time. Appreciate the candid review, I'm leaning heavily towards the hydrographics option now.