I went to Andys Autosports while viewing another post and looked up hoods again. 2000-2005 have a new low cost option instead of the Parts for your Car and MPD one.

http://www.andysautosport.com/chevro...r00142573.html

 

NICE! And a good price. I like the 2 dimples along side the scoop in the back. Style. And for $424 -10%, thats under 400 for a fiberglass hood (+shipping) GOOD price!

 

that looooooooooooooooks awesome,
some one should do it!!!!

 

Is it actualy functional or is it just a for looks one?

I cant find any info on that part of the hood.

 

dont go for it guys, i know it looks good. Before i got my SS hood i did the research, asked around here on the forums and did some other searching. Some guy has this hood on his car and says its really thin and needed major help (flimsy and was thin in some spots, thick inothers)when it arrived. i mean, i know its cheap but if i had to do it again i'd make the same choice i did. anyways, i dont know how a fiberglass hood could be that cheap, especially when its including shipping. That alone scares me. the molding process is a delicate one.

 

Hey thanks for the heads up!!! Damn I love forums!!!!

Which SS hood did you get? The MPD or PFYC one? Any reason that swayed your choice one way or the other? Didn't know about one of the websites is a good answer too.

 

I decided to go for pfyc because of the price and the customer service. i never contacted mpd about a hood, only pfyc but they never jerked me around before, so i felt good ordering from them. they only have online live assistance, but it seemed like they could always answer my questions promptly. The only downside to their hood is that nobody makes a functional ram air CAI for it anymore. slp used to, but stopped right before i got the hood. if only the accident happened 2 months before it did! It should be warned though, shipping for that hood is NOT 150ish. It cost 350 bucks, their website quotes it wrong, and i had it shipped to downtown San Francisco. The body shop did notice a small wave in the hood on the passenger side, and offered to fix it for free since it wasnt that bad and their body shop didnt want a crappy job done on one of their cars they fix. The key is to get a body shop that knows about fiberglass and works with it. most european garages know what to do.

 

Yeah, I had seen this one before, but not too fond of it. Kinda ricey IMHO.

 

Did it come with the plenum to get ram air or did they take that off? Their site reads they no longer have a functional airbox but it isn't to hard to make one.

 

Ya it has a cutout for the air, slp used to make the functional airbox but they dont any longer. and for anyone thinking the grand am ram air hood airbox will work, trust me, it wont. tried that haha. the K and N FIPK ends right by the airhole, so it doesnt make that much of a difference. The air is still being picked up. I was thinking about somehow fabricating something to guide the air onto the K and N, but it would look dumb.

on another note, i was thinking about dumping the K and N cone that comes with the FIPK for a K and N Xstream cone filter. seems to me like the hard plastic on the top of the filter is deflecting a lot of air away from the filter, when it could be pushing the air right through. that makes sense right? With the FIPK kit the filter is huge, think its like a 9". the biggest they make for the xstream i think is 5 or 6". So i guess my question is, would the smaller,moreair allowing Xstream filter make up the volume difference of a 9" K and N without the xstream top? any takers. remember, the filter must have a 4" opening.