I found a fiberglass hood, on a iron duke camaro. It has the correct small louver indents, but at the rear of the indent it has a flap like a ram air that opens and allows air into the engine bay. On the underside of the hood, it has a mechanical linkage that opens and closes the flap. Is this really rare and worth buying? Thanks alot.

 

Not really "rare", but those hoods were only on 82-84 Zs. SOME 85s too, I believe. Or was it 82-85? I forget.

 

Thanks for the fast reply. I know the fiberglass hoods are somewhat common, but i never seen one with this ram air flap and linkage. So have you seen this type of ram air hood?

 

i think just 82-84 i havent seen an 85+ with the fiberglass hood yet, not saying they arent out there though...

 

i thought it was the crossfire cars that got those hoods? and i also thought they stopped makin it for the 84 year cuz of rain getting in the engine bay, so im thinkin 82-83? not 100% on those facts and im a bit tired lol. btw my 84 z had no flaps or holes.

 

I've seen a couple of those "flap" hoods, but I think both of them were "broken". As in, the flaps were no longer functional. You could open them by hand, but the auto mechanism no longer worked on either one.

 

Those hoods are found on '82-83 z28 with the Lu-5
crossfire injection engine,originaly there was an electric
solenoid to open the flaps that was triggered by the ecm.

 

Thanks alot guys! So it kind of sounds like it would be a good hood to buy then? Now that i think of it i believe there was some wires running to it. But the car was an iron duke, not a crossfire. Hmmm

 

was probably swapped out at some point, i had an 83 z28 with crossfire injection and same hood but it was cracked.

 

makes sense, the rest of the car was shot lol. The guy wanted a hundred bucks for it, good deal if its in nice shape?

 

Yea i heard they only used the factory fiberglass hoods on 82-83 camaros (not sure which modles) but discontinued them in 84 because they were prone to cracking.

 

mmmmm wouldnt mind have one of these hoods...
I've seen only one camaro with a flap that opens was my friend's 85 tan camaro. surpisingly his still works as much as I've heard they quit working easly.
I've been looking for one of these hoods.

 

I remember reading something where they discontinued these hoods early b/c of water leaks causing damage

 

As said, 82-83 CFI Z28's had it. They also had that crazy dual muffler exhaust too.

 

i agree. 82-83 LU5 with crossfire injection. which is i think is ecoming increasingly more rare. my car had the hood parted off it before i bought it years ago. im sure they would be wicked expensive aftermarket if they even make them and the scrap cars have probably been picked. if anyone knows where i can buy a working one thats free of damage in the ohio area let me know, i pay cash.

 

Mine works great yet. The hood is probably the nicest thing ON my car, hahaha!

 

Any pics of this mechanism?
It might just the ticket for the cold air induction I've been thinking about.

 

sorry for the bird crap on the hood. i just got it out of winter storage. here's some pics

 

I found one of these hoods with working flaps in a trash pile at a wrecking yard....it was in perfect shape minus paint, and the flapper worked....I already had a hood on my car....so I sold it locally for $100 bucks.....should I have charged more???

 

[QUOTE=derekterbeest;4113438]sorry for the bird crap on the hood. i just got it out of winter storage. here's some pics

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That's great! Thanks.
I can see how it could be adapted to a carbed application using a traditional cowl induction air cleaner assembly. Hood clearence with a RPM Air Gap manifold is the only glitch. I'll have to investigate.

 

That I don't know however....
If I figure it'll fit my application, I would certainly pay $100.
I'll have to keep my eyes open.

 

That's a pretty cool hood.i like it