Wow, from your last couple of questions, it’s clear you don’t quite have a grasp on the basics of American Iron. Even the phrasing of your questions is in the mode of “what can I do?” AI isn’t a “what can I do” kind of class. CMC is. AI isn’t. The proper question for AI is “What can’t I do?”
Relating to your questions on hoods, louvers, cowls, airdams, splitters, etc. there really isn’t a lot you can’t do. Specifically for the front of the car, you can’t chop up the firewall, the front strut/shock towers, or the frame rails. Everything else from the firewall forward can be removed and replaced with whatever you would like, in both form and materials. So the hood, both front fenders, and the nose can be tossed and be replaced with other steel, aluminum, fiberglass, carbon fiber, or anything else in whatever shape you would like. If that shape looks sort of like what you started with but modified, cool. If the front of the car ends up looking like a C6R Corvette, a Trans-Am Jaguar, a German Touring Car Mercedes, or any other aerodynamic high down force/low drag shape you can come up with, that’s cool to. If you need to cut out the core support to lay the radiator down at an angle so it fits under the new shape you have created, go for it. It’s all good. If you happen to come across a nose wing from last year’s Ferrari F1 car, you are welcome to dangle it out in front also.
More specifically, louvers in a cowl hood are well within the limits of the AI rules. If you don't feel like getting a new hood, you are welcome to just cut a hole in your current one for the air filter to poke up through... :-)
Welcome to the area. We'll see you at the track.
Richard P.
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