Thread: hood spacers anyone doing this

DIY: $3.57 Hood Spacers - 8th Generation Honda Civic Forum

i recently seen this is kinda the new honda fad going on which is hood spacers which slighlty raise the back of the hood to relieve engine heat, i kinda see the benifit although the honda guys are more of less doing this on tipical honda engine which dont nearly generate the kinda heat a turbo engine does, but anyways has anyone does this, and noticed any differences in engine compartment heat soak?

To me it makes the car look like it was wrecked and not fixed right.
Doesn't seem like it would really do a whole lot for cooling,but I guess any reduction would be helpful with heatsoak on a turbo car.

If you really want that same thing without that stupid look, rip out all that rubber hood trip on the back end.

It actually works better than just removing the rubber hood trim. I was going to do it, but didn't get around to it yet. I will be spacing the hood up around 15mm.

I've seen cars run MUCH cooler here (especially in the desert) by raising the back of the hood up.

im definitly going to be doing this, my engine bay seems to see alto of heatsoak betwen the turbo/radiator/intercooler piping, having some of that trapped heat in the engine compartment relieved will really help

Sorry, it looks broke to me. But what am I saying, my car is 2 tone - white and primer

Im doing it. Ive noticed on average about a 8-10 degree coolant temp difference with it raised up.

i did it on my turbo car using nuts as spacers and longer bolts. it difinitly made a difference. i'm thinkin bout doing it on the ve car now.

post pics of what it looks like on your cars pls

This is REAL old skool stuff here, but I guess it has been rediscovered. I've seen lots of road racers doing this, mostly V8 guys back in the day. It really does make a difference if you are running hot (as pointed out, turbo), and for the heat dissipation challenged NX, yeah it looks odd, but it works. What I don't know is what height is optimal. Might be interesting to try a couple of different height spacers with a proper temp gauge to put some numbers with it. It is on my list of things to do during the swap.

Darrin