What's with the hood...

[Gary Smith]

Originally Posted by chris3racing

This stuff just gives me a good laugh. With all of the good racing going on and we get another thread about some poor joe who has a hood that don't look right. I have been left out of super stock racing over the last few years over this same thing. My hood on a 340 Duster is not right. Please, help me understand how a hood, which never did much even back in those days is such a heartburn.

It's a fresh air hood, and probably worth 2 tenths or more in good air. 30 years ago tech would not only toss you at the gate, you'd have others laughing for trying. I swear it's nothing against Dick Lux, in fact he's gonna make NHRA tech dept look like bigger buffoons than they already are.

[Ed Wright]

I can not imagine 2/10ths. I have taped over the scoops on my Trans Am "Ram Air" hood and it does not care. Runs exactly the same. That's why I find the "flat hood" and "Ram Air hood" HP factors being different for some LS1 engines being different kinda funny.

[tommy d]

I'm a Ford guy and I love Lux's Comet but.....If a Nova or Camaro racer showed up with a cowl hood on a combo that wasn't offered would no one complain?

[James Hill]

Originally Posted by Gary Smith

It's a fresh air hood, and probably worth 2 tenths or more in good air. 30 years ago tech would not only toss you at the gate, you'd have others laughing for trying. I swear it's nothing against Dick Lux, in fact he's gonna make NHRA tech dept look like bigger buffoons than they already are.

The car doesn't have an air pan on it, if anything the hood is probably hurting it .05 by all the turbulence it is creating. I am sure if people that actually race in the class or could race in the class with him that have seen the hood thought there was some advantage to it something would have been said.