I'm assuming that for most of us this would be a purely cosmetic upgrade?

Any negatives/potential issues to having the vents? If not, I may be interested.

 

It's way more functional than cosmetic. Venting the hood creates a low pressure zone over the surface of the hood causing a vacuum to form, thus pulling the hot air out of the engine compartment and away from your intake .
It may not seem like much but getting all that heat away from your engine will give you more useable power a cleaner more crisp throttle response and potentially better mpg.
I haven't been able to properly test this aspect because when you hit vtec the engine now screams so loud it's instant gratification truly an awesome sound

I couldn't think of any negatives other than possible rusting of non aluminum parts but it's cheap to change over to aluminum or ss to avoid that entirely

As far as rain the entire underhood area gets wet when you drive in the rain anyway

 

Very cool pictures on the step-by-step. I'm in the 180-240 price range I think sounded far ~$30-40 an hour?
We can always be SUPER KOOOOL and just rock no hood like all of the Integraz and Civicz bois. (JK) Ugh such a stupid trend, and I thought it couldn't get worse

 

Do you think you will still get the benefits if you are still rocking the stock airbox?

 

Do you think you will still get the benefits if you are still rocking the stock airbox?
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yes because nothing is full proof but I don't think the gains will be as significant as a ram air system or even an open oem

 

I'm excited

 

Just an update for those worried about rain I drove in this morning during a t storm and a fairly heavy rain and this is what my engine bay looks like immediately after arriving at work almost completely dry what little water did go in the heat dried it up very quickly

 

$300 seems like a fair price!.

 

For those of you interested in getting the hoods vented see about getting multiple people to buy aluminum as it benefits all and saves everyone a few bucks

 

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