Hood Vent Water Drain Off Plastic Piece

[Daytona Camaro]

Has anyone removed this? If so, any water damage to the engine? I think the engine/hood vent would look 100 times better without the plastic water run off plastic. I want to remove mine but not sure if I should.

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[Matty Ice]

I did but it never sees any rain. When washing the car a little water gets in the engine compartment. I also took the baffle/deflector for the CAI.

[MiniBig]

I took mine off the day I bought it in 2014 and never put it back on. It's been in rain and car washing. No problem at all. Engine bay still looks as good as new.

[xc_SS/RS]

I've got the hood vent installed on my car and the only time I run the tray is during the winter. It's my attempt at keeping more heat in the engine bay lol

[MiniBig]

Originally Posted by xc_SS/RS

I've got the hood vent installed on my car and the only time I run the tray is during the winter. It's my attempt at keeping more heat in the engine bay lol

That it will do

[Daytona Camaro]

How did you take the tray off ?

[Jeff71]

Mine is off. No water damage but I don't drive in the rain and I wouldn't stress out over it if I did get caught in the rain.

It's been a minute since I've removed it but basically you need to pop the hood, locate the 6 or 7 plastic push pins that hold it in place and remove them along with the tray.

[Supercup]

Originally Posted by Daytona Camaro

How did you take the tray off ?

Simply remove the plastic tabs that hold it on. Note that, when facing the car, 3 or 4 of the tabs (can't remember which) also hold on the cover to the air box. So when you pull those off, you need to re-install them once you take the tray off, to hold that lid in place on the hood. This seals the air box to keep max flow of cool air.

There is a tool for these - but you can remove with needle nose plyers, as long as you are careful you can re-use them.

Lets more heat escape, so if going to the track definately something you want to do.

[Daytona Camaro]

Originally Posted by Supercup

Simply remove the plastic tabs that hold it on. Note that, when facing the car, 3 or 4 of the tabs (can't remember which) also hold on the cover to the air box. So when you pull those off, you need to re-install them once you take the tray off, to hold that lid in place on the hood. This seals the air box to keep max flow of cool air. There is a tool for these - but you can remove with needle nose-pliers, as long as you are careful you can re-use them.

Seems complicated. Gonna give it my best shot ....

[Daytona Camaro]

Already dropped 1 rivet down in the engine to the floor pan!

Use towels to catch any rivets! :(

Now I need to jack her up, unscrew floor pan to recover the rivet :(

[Daytona Camaro]

Plastic tray out. Looks 1000 times better. The tray was actually kinda heavy.

[MonroeZ28]

I took mine out almost immediately along with the plastic coil pack covers and have never put any of them back on. 427 s run hot to begin with and all of those things trap a massive amount of heat. Car runs much cooler without.

[MiniBig]

Originally Posted by Daytona Camaro

Already dropped 1 rivet down in the engine to the floor pan!

Use towels to catch any rivets! :(

Now I need to jack her up, unscrew floor pan to recover the rivet :(

I dropped one too. Never found it.

[Daytona Camaro]

Originally Posted by MiniBig

I dropped one too. Never found it.

Did you get on the floor, go under the engine and remove the plastic floor pan?

I don't like the stuff down there, just being there.