![]() And the 60-foot was a couple of thousandths slower on the pass with the scoop, so it wasn’t the track or the weather. 14-seconds and three mph in the 1/8-mile in a 7.00 index car. Both Innovative and CTR offer their scoops in traditional clear lexan and tinted, or “smoked,” again with the main difference being the look of the scoop once installed on the car. The opening is rectangular as well, though Innovative Racecraft has recently added a “bubble top” design with a rounded top panel that provides a very nice look, and the rounded top can really accent the lines of the car. Nearly all lexan scoops are rectangular in shape with a taper that widens vertically toward the inlet. The design of the scoop is fairly basic, though there are some options available, based mostly on aesthetic preferences and intake design. “We only sell about 15 or 20 a year because it’s not something we focus on, but we offer a quality scoop that will survive a backfire or two without having to be replaced.” I believe our design is the strongest on the market today,” Terry says. “I looked at a few that had been blown off the car by backfires and made some changes that made them much more durable. CTR decided to build a stronger design after looking at a few scoops that were destroyed by nitrous backfires and realizing there was room for improvement. As Limited Street’s popularity faded, so did the need for lexan scoops - at least until the latter part of the decade. Terry recounts first seeing lexan scoops back in the early 2000’s when ORSCA’s Limited Street racers were trying to keep a more stock-appearing profile for cars by not allowing a traditional forward-facing hood scoop. Lately, we’ve been shipping a lot of them to no-prep racers as well, as those events have really caught on over the past couple of years. Lately, we’ve been shipping a lot of them to no-prep racers as well, as those events have really caught on over the past couple of years,” said Pirez of his customer base. ![]() “Most of them do end up on grudge and no-time cars, yes. Troy jumped into the market with both feet around 2009 when the trend first started catching on, and his data agrees with what we’ve seen first hand. Troy Pirez Jr., accomplished driver and owner of the Seffner, Florida-based fabrication shop Innovative Racecraft, was one of the first to manufacture lexan scoops. Lately, the explosion of no-prep events has opened a new market for the clear scoop as well. While there are some X275 cars beginning to adopt the see-through design, and Radial vs the World competitor Chad Henderson has utilized one on his big-inch nitrous Grand National for a few years, the vast majority of them are used in the grudge and N/T world. We can address most of the “who” right off the bat, as it seems that probably 9 out of 10 lexan scoops are on grudge, no-time and no-prep cars, the current outlaws of the sport, it seems. Where did they come from, and what are the benefits of this understated, but very cool scoop design? We reached out to a couple of leading lexan scoop manufacturers to find out the who, what, and why behind these clear bug catchers. Lexan scoops have gone from a rarely-seen accessory just a few short years ago to being one of the more common sights adorning the intakes of many cars these days.
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