Anyone Working on Quality Replacements for the GenV Hood Vents ?

[v10enomous]

Anyone working on different style and material vents to replace the plasticy looking stuff ? This seems like a great opportunity for the aftermarket. Even a better grade and texture of plastic would be an improvement but carbon fiber or even powder coated aluminum or something would be nice.

[Voice of Reason]

I've been thinking about this for a while now but have no experience manufacturing this stuff. I would like to see what a vent that's essentially a trim ring completely open in the middle looks like. If you take the vents out it looks weird due to the way the hood is designed so something is needed. Ideally if a plastic trim ring looks good then a carbon fiber ring would be even better. I've gone as far with my dreaming on this to look up 3D scanners and 3D printers to scan the stock vents and then print a prototype but that's as far as I've got. If someone already has these two things I think an hour in CAD removing the inner material from a scan and then print something would go a long way to telling us if this would work.

[rlhay2]

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I had to 3M tape one of mine back in place. I broke it hand washing the car. ...dem gainz...

[v10enomous]

Bring back the speaker grills... lol

The rest of the car really looks high end and these plastic vents drag it down IMO. Especially when you consider that they are the focal point of the cars with the SRT hood and even the GTS. I would have thought that someone would have done this shortly after they started delivering the first 2013's.

[ViperPete]

Id like some real carbon fiber inserts too. Maybe a louvered design instead of all the little holes that are a PITA to clean.

[v10enomous]

Id like some real carbon fiber inserts too. Maybe a louvered design instead of all the little holes that are a PITA to clean.

Yes... need to be easier to clean as well !