My X2 is getting a crank rebuild because it sat for barely a week in the garage after it had been run a couple times to blow it out but somehow water found its way to the front rod bearing. Luckily I found out before it was run or I would have fired it up and lunched the rest of the motor after a tank of gas.
I am thinking more about this hood project and think I have a good plan for it. It will breath through the rear into a cavity the legnth of the hood and about the size of the upper hump in the hood. Not the original hump but the lowered hump. Then way up front I will have 2 or 3 breather / anti siphon tubes going up to the cavity in the hood. To keep water from running in the open area straight down into the tubes I will make the tubes and inch or so tall into the cavity so water can't run right into them.
The more I think it over the more I am considering making the area deeper than just the 2 inch bump on the hood and add a drain line out the back for water that gets in to out the back of the hood down low. I can mold one of my lowered hoods and make a prototype hull insert out of aliminum to see how it works and how strong it needs to be. It needs to be backflip pancake proof, look cool, keep water out, and weigh in around 6 or 7 pounds.
I need to make the mold for myself so it isn't a big deal if nobody wants one.
