4 Port Heat extractor hood
 

Does anyone have this 4 port heat extractor ram air hood? do you like it? is it worth the price....? anyone got pix?????thanx..

i believe its made by mecham...and to my knowledge aren't the ports fake? i forget, i think i recall seeing it where the back looks like it has these bigs holes in it but they are filled in :(

No, the heat ports acually work ive seen pix before and an article about it.. but i was wondering if any of the members had it just wanted to know if it was worth the $900...

I've heard nothing but bad things about the quality of Mecham's hood, everything from fitment problems to splitting around the sides, plus the fact that the hood is not finished from Mecham when you get it.

There is a place that makes a 'replica' hood for a much lower cost (and much better quality), but I don't have the link handy and I'll be damned if I can't remember the name of the place right offhand...it may come to me later. I think the price was $500-600.

Mecham hoods suck for quality. (Had one on my 99 - some pics at link in sig). The extractor ports are real, but they are baffled to help reduce the amount of water that gets into the engine bay.

Hadn't heard of anyone making a replica of them... :shrug:

I wouldn't buy another one...even at half the price...

heard nothing but good things about the look of a mecham, and nothing but bad things about the quality, especially for the price

Well thanx, looks like thats a negative on the hood ! now i want the raptor... anyone know where i can get it cheap...?

I have that 4 port extractor hood (however not made from Mecham) and the fiberglass job was botched! I was hoping that the body shop could fix it by blocking and sanding it and it ends up that they really couldn't do much to help. So I'm left with a paint job where it looks really wavy and the edges aren't smooth. Paid $1060.00 for it too. Talk about getting screwed. I didn't know much about the history of Mecham's products and had called them up to found out about the quality of their stuff. Good thing I ran into this site or I would have ordered another botched hood. Comp TA, if you can remember the place the makes the replica (hopefully in metal) let me know.

I recently looked in mechams web site and even called the guy. he told me that as the company has gotten bigger they have upgraded their molding thus giving them better quality. www.mechamperformance.com I think it even says it on their web site. Let me know if anyone has bought one that comes out bad after knowing this.

Well I'm not sure if I would still take a risk with them.

I must point out that he said almost the exact same thing when I called and asked about their hood quality...5 or 6 years ago. I suppose it could be true this time...*shrug*

let me be the first to say that the ver 4 hood, (the one on my car) is much better quality than their older hoods..... they stepped up their game. I had virtually no fitment issues as well as prep issues.....

and to the person that asked.... the hood is fully functional.

as you can see the airbox through the front grills.....also if you look the new version, the rolls are enlarged much more than a raptor hood or even the older mecham hoods.

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j2...AVEN/Zam22.jpg





and also here are a few others

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j2...AVEN/zam16.jpg

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j2...AVEN/zam14.jpg

^^^fitments do look pretty damn good.

Good looking car Raven. I think I'm gonna try and sell my hood and purchase a Mecham one.

like i said, im very happy with what i have. i admit i was very skeptical after reading all the posts about quality.... however. this was 5 years ago when i bought the car.......(wow.....it just dawned on me my car is now 5 years old.....) anyway i bought a regular TA rather than the firehawk sitting next to it for the sole purpose of buying this hood (and that it was going to get VERY modded) if i bought the hawk.... it would still be stock.

F@ck that fraud!! Don't touch any of his crap! He told me that same line about improving the quality, too. So what are the chances of me getting a new hood for free from his "much improved" pile of shit since I ordered one of his "less the shitty" piles of shit before? Probably the same chance as me posting without PICTURES!!! UH!!OH!!
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/518658/2

Also, I will update all of you in a few days on the better hood from the better company, just got computer fixed...

01ls1lover are you still planning on getting one of these? I plan on it i dont care how much i have to spend on it i love it. Youre the one from yuba city right? lol this place is too small for us both to have that hood! nah im jj i dont care. I have been wanting this hood for like 5 years and keep putting it off but i dont care any more i want it too bad im gonna do it i dont care if i spend 2k in prep alone. It is by far the best looking hood ever for a trans am. I have searched and searched and searched and i have never found a replica. If you can pin one down let me know but im telling you, ive never found anything after countless hours of trying to so i doubt there is one. All mechams other stuff is alright including camaro hoods and even trans am spoilers so whats with the one fluke hood design?

I like everything about it except for how the very front of the hood is, right in between the nostrils where it dips down. The firehawk badge doesnt even seem to help it much.

Matt, what company is working on your hood? I see that Rex commented on your cardomain, was he supposed to make a knock off mecham hood for you?

please ignore that on my car. anyone else who has it doesnt have that gap problem to my knowledge the reason i do is because i have no foam or metal bumper supports in the bumper at all so it sags in the top middle rather than being bulged up from the styrofoam support....