Thanks for the feedback. Initial market research with the design renderings told us we were on the right track but you never know until it is finished. I’m happy to hear the positive responses.
We'll get underside pics asap. The hood came back from the painter late yesterday, was installed and the pics taken hastily before leaving on a business trip. Otherwise we would have taken them closer to sunset or sunrise and gotten more angles including the underside. We should be able to get underside pics sometime Thursday. We actually debated whether to launch the product before getting underside pictures Thursday and everyone we showed it to privately thought we should show it as is. My guess is if we would have held a poll here, the majority would have voted to show it as is.
Just a hunch.
In the mean time, this link shows the plumbing of the underside of our Inferno hood for the Grand Prix.
http://www.pfyc.com/inferno/inferno_underside.jpg
Note where the air comes in on the driver’s side about halfway down the side of the hood. You can follow the plumbing from there around to where the inlets are. The GTO setup is similar to this. Also note we keep the crumple zones and the same structure underneath that was engineered into the factory hood.
There are a couple of windshield washer nozzle placement options. First off, if someone wants to mount them on the hood, that is possible (but probably won’t be a popular option). We are currently working on two other solutions. The first would be a conversion kit that puts the washer nozzles on the wiper blades like many other cars. The next option is my favorite so far and that is to mount them on the black plastic pieces immediately behind the hood routing the hoses underneath that piece from the passenger side. This is the next thing we’ll work on as time permits. We’ve looked it over and the only question so far is how well the washer spray will spread across the windshield. We’ll see.
Please don’t hesitate to post further questions. I’ll do my best to post answers promptly. Thanks again for your responses.
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Mike Lewis
PFYC
