Exactly what I was thinking too. If you're actually going to drive it, I wouldn't want water and debris being sprayed on my alternator and belt. I guess you could block it off, but IMO fake scoops are ricey.

Also, I really think those fab'd scoops are far too boxy for the smooth look of the car, maybe smoothed out a bit on a 4th gen they'd look decent, but the new montes are just too rounded and it would stick out like a sore thumb. I'd think you could make a hood bump look more factory in appearance, plus you should be able to just cut one off an eclipse and weld it in?

 

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Honestly, the fab work is amazing.. however the scoop design is not.

 

Looks Good

 

I didn't have a dust free environment to paint it, so I took it to collex collision and they did a good paint job and matched the 12 year old paint job well. I lost my pin strip on my hood. (lost as in sanded and painted over) Does anyone have any suggestions for hood pin strip or just leave it plain?

 

i would just leave it plain. but i still think the scoops need to be rounded or have some kind of shape to not be so boxxy

 

I could probably live with the boxiness but just the black in them looks bad.. And since their closed makes them look funny.. I understand why they should be closed but I would have put a piece of glass their instead so you could see in, and at quick glance it would look like they are not closed.

 

The Black makes it stand out a lot. Looks like good quality work tho.

 

If you keep up all of that work you might have to put in 2 crank pulleys!

 

I added two idler pulleys along with the extra alternators.