[JASonic]

Ive kinda over posted on this. Some members expressed interest in the idea of doing this. I only wished I had a camera capable of picking up how cool it really looks when its done right. Ive did it twice now. The second time it came out much better. The more I let the creativity flow, the more "improvements" I see. There's some real smart people around here that may come up with cool ideas to enhance this and Im looking forward to the ideas.

These types of simple visual mods are only unique for a short period of time. Im real suprised there isnt a kit out for this mod already. The only reason I can figure there isnt is because it takes a certain amount of balls to drill through your hood and hood scoop. I've tested it and thought it through and it doesnt have any effect on the scoop or hood. As long as you make a few holes in the hood itself under the scoop for the air to escape. The beauty is that under my scoop, the hood has an "inverted" spot that worked perfect for air holes because it was higher up allowing for air and not water to enter the engine bay through the hood insulation. Also, you need a place to run wire so the holes were necsesary. I drove the car at 110 on Saturday afternoon and everything was fine. No noise, vibration or anything. I also sprayed a powerwasher into the scoop and nothing moved or budged.

I found one unique problem when doing this that was fun to figure out. As you can see in the picture, I drilled out all the center holes in the honeycomb scoop. Now I had to figure out how to keep the LEDs in place without losing the ability to see through the scoop. You see, I wanted the scoop to still "fake" the look of functionality. Not only that, I have more LEDs in the back of the scoop that only shine threw the holes on angles. This makes for a kick ass effect when driving by. So anyway, I put the lights through the holes from the backside. I use a drill bit that was the same size as the light. This way the bulb fit snug. Its not snug enough to hold it still at speed. I needed to find a way to keep them put.

So heres what I did. First, I put the bulb in. Then in the holes where there were bulbs, I sqeezed in a clear acrylic non-yellowing all weather sealer filling the hole around the bulb. The sealent bonded to the bulb and filled the remainder of the honeycomb. That shit locked it in place. LEDs create no heat which makes it ok to use. Also, the fact that its clear and stays crystal clear makes the bulb look the exact shape of the honeycomb. It defracts the light perfectly. Now the bulb is protected from any debris coming at the scoop at high speed. This works great.

Now to hold all the wireing in place behind the lights, I cut a piece of window screen to shape and secured it tight behind the honeycomb holding everything in nice and square. This is important to keep and crap out and whatever. I noticed it also minimized water from getting in too.

Electrical is the easiest part. I didnt have much issue with that. The whole thing runs off a 9v battery. I did not want this hard wired... too many issues with that. I built a little case out of some old electrical crap I had in the garage. Real simple on off switch. LEDs take very little power to luminate. So I just have the box sitting on the center console right now but Im going to instal a little hook or something down by my leg to hang it on.

I cant drive with them on because they are a serious distraction to drivers. I dont need a ticket for this. But I can turn them on when I know theres no cops around for kicks!!!

Another important note is that this cost me about $6 to do. Of course I had the majority of the the stuff to do it. If I had to buy all the parts for another car, I could do everything for less than $14 or $15.... and that sealer, screen, lights, wire, 9v and box.

I also ran one led to the grill to backlight my mustang.

[Dennis]

thats just neat if i had a lid id do it but yea definatley nice

[weems]

looks good man , good writeup also