How to lift up the s14 hood?

[DRFT_DREAM]

what should i use? washers or what?pls advise thanks a lot......

[AceInHole]

really lets a lot of the elements into the engine bay when you do it..... but i used 4 spare lugnuts. lol. just make sure to get some longer bolts

[DRFT_DREAM]

lugnutz? ace.what do u mean? i dont understand do u have some pix to show me? that would be greatly appreciated............thanks a lot

[Fibercus]

lugnutz? ace.what do u mean? i dont understand do u have some pix to show me? that would be greatly appreciated............thanks a lot

Lugnuts worked like washers (more like spacers) 12mm bolts fit thru them, and thread into the hood.

[DRFT_DREAM]

where could i get them from?

[s0ldats]

LUGNUTS.................you know the things that hold your wheels on?

[Bryants95240sx]

not all lug nuts have a hole drilled threw them i guess thats where hes getting confused

[Redtop_240]

And what the hell is this for?

maybe a stoopid question but I dont think Ive ever heard what its for.......

[Salty_X]

It allows hot air to quickly escape from the engine bay, and like AceInHole said, it also allows random stuff to enter the engine bay...

[Chernobyl]

It also doesnt work (the way you intend it) as the high pressure area in the 'cowl' will actually push air into the bay instead of out. But whatever, I guess fluid dynamics isn't important to some people.

[Kookaburraz]

It also doesnt work (the way you intend it) as the high pressure area in the 'cowl' will actually push air into the bay instead of out. But whatever, I guess fluid dynamics isn't important to some people.
Except you're wrong, and the high pressure area is not as high pressure as the engine compartment is.

[Maeda]

I guess its time to raise my hood ^_^

[Jeff240sx]

Except you're wrong, and the high pressure area is not as high pressure as the engine compartment is.

Way to go Kookz!
PV=nRT kind of applies here, minus a negligable ammount of engine bay depressurization. In the given volume of the engine bay, when temp goes up, pressure goes up. By opening a large ammount of the rear of the hood to unlimited volume, the pressure outside the hood would be lower. And air flows from high pressure zones to low(er) pressure.
But that's not even the most important part to why this works. The faster a fluid moves (air), the lower the pressure. When the exposed rear of the hood has air flowing across it, engine bay air is pulled out of the enginebay.
I guess fluid dynamics works again.
-Jeff

[Redtop_240]

God damn man........You got me wanting to do this to my beater saturn.....

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!

Preach on....

But in all seriousness this creates a vacume that brings fresh cool air into the engine bay?
Or it what?

Unless its for cooling purposes....I dont see the point....

Someone please explain.....

[s0ldats]

it's for cooling and in some cases, clearance. some STB etc go too high and hit the hood.

[91CRXsiR]

You can use washers and just slightly longer bolts. I had this on my 1st 240 it helped allot when I had a leaky injector got all that bad gas smell out

a small concern is that if you lift it high enough and crash head-on the hood may instead of crumple, shoot back thru the windsheild and slice ur head off haha which didnt happen to me when i slammed into a mountain. so get good bolts

[element240]

^ yea that would suck...
decapitated by your own hood.