[truegearhead]

Over the weekend with tons of time on my hands I decided to redesign the hood extractor. When I was at VIR a couple months ago the air coming through the bumper opening was enough to cause the hood to bow up about an inch which shows just how much air and resistance this design was creating. To reduce drag I decided to close the bumper opening, cut a hole in the bottom of the car and built a front mounted diffuser so the hood could pull air from underneath the car (the splitter in not installed in these pictures). If only there was a track to test this out on... Its hard to tell from the photo but air would flow to the hood from the other side of the curved aluminum piece. I probably need to install a plate over the front of the bumper to hide the curve piece since air cannot escape into the hood or anywhere else