i was looking at my evo's hood vent today and it was kind of faded to i decided to take it off and paint it back to black...would it be safe to leave it off completely? There would def. be more heat coming out of the engine and i have seen other evos like this but say in a heavy rain storm would there be a problem with water getting into the engine?..also if the heat shield under the hood is removed will it damage the paint or no?

Thx

 

it is perfectly safe to run without the vent on. there are tons of people who do run without one.

Nobody needs to respond to this thread after my post.

 

ok thanks for the quick reply!

 

As far as the silver heat shield, that is there deflect heat (save paint). Keep it. If it is starting to peel or fade, just repaint it.

The vent, do whatever.

 

The vent actually is used to pull the heat out of your engine compartment..... keep it in there

 

agreed plus it protects your engine a lil more from the weather to keep it cleaner

 

I don't think this is true.


The only thing the vent does it vent heat. Rain water and other crap still can get in. Thats the only thing I don't like about it - is when it rains, water gets in my engine bay.

 

so would u rather keep the vents on or off?

 

Keep everything on and stop being a ricer!

 

^^^^haha

 

How is he being a ricer? Nice proof read there buddy

 

haha burn

 

I've had mine off for ~30k miles. You'll be fine.

 

so rain doesn't mess up everything in the engine by having the vents off?

 

the rains will make your engine catch on fire