Has anyone purchased this hood for your truck? I am looking at this as a strong possibility to purchase but wanted to see if anyone else did before. If you did or knew someone who did how was the fitment and color match of the truck?
Steve

 

personal opinion I guess but the stock hood looks way better than that! 1259$ could buy something much better for the truck but to each their own. For that much money fitment better be spot on IMO

 

Nothing I'd ever be interested in, but I still am curious. Is the ram air functional? Is the hood steel, fiberglass or some other material?

 

By the time it`s delivered, modified, prepped, painted and installed, one will be close to 2K or more just for a hood.

The odds of this hood fitting perfectly are close to zero hence the reason they offer it unpainted. Also, what does one do if it`s ordered painted and it doesn`t line up with the stock body panels.

 

I purchased a hood for my Camaro that was an aftermarket hood that did not require any fixing to make it work. I wish that company made one for the truck. I saw this one and was asking this forum as there are so many knowledgeable people and i just figured someone would have by chance purchased this hood. It is (if I remember right after emailing the company) it is fiberglass and it is a fully functional ram air hood for a few different cold air intakes.
Steve

 

The site says the ram air is functional. Im also wondering about the material. A lot of guys (me included) have issues with the hood shaking/vibrating at highway speeds and time will tell if that ends up causing structural issues with the hood. If it's made of some type of composite, I can see this thing basically shredding itself due to all the movement. I'm not a fan of it not having the "SUPERDUTY" lettering at the front of the hood either, but thats just me.

 

I have a Cervinis hood on my '95 Mustang GT.. It came unpainted. The well known/respected body shop I took it to here locally said it fit better and required less prep then any hood they had ever put on. They mounted it, pulled it, prepped it for paint and painted it. Zero issues.
Now, the Saleen s351 wing I took them at the same time.. they hated that thing. But it does look good. LOL
10 years later, I have no complaints.

 

As others have mentioned, the "ram air" feature needs to be better described. How does it tie into the OEM air box/tube? Would ram air do any good on a turbo charged diesel engine anyhow?

 

Heres the underside of the hood. The more I look at it, I doesn't look like a funtional ram air that forces air into the intake but rather just cools the engine bay by bringing cooler air into the general area.

 

 

I read that Chevy also had to back off of that because it cooled the engine bay too much and caused emissions problems. Hard to get a good regen when the temps can't come up to where they need to be? Keep in mind I read about this on the Internet, so take it with a grain of salt.

 

Ram air looks functional to me.

 

Haha, well I obviosly didn't look at all the pics! Good find!

 

Based on where the inlets are, the effects of "ram air" are going to be aerodynamically limited. If one wants to maximize air flow, one has to either put the inlets at the hood's leading edge or up high and into the airflow [akin to a snorkel type design]. Trucks do not experience laminar air flows over their exterior surfaces, so that hood is more for style than it is for "ram air".

Cervini builds a good hood, but it's an appearance product, not a performance product.

 

I have a Cervini hood on my mustang as well, for an aftermarket, fit was good and did not require a lot of prep.