Been doing some more reading, keeping in mind the up side down airfoil shape of the car, I decided to vent out the hood. I’ve seen lots of examples but they all seem to take up most of the trunk. The out the wheel well system uses less trunk space but again I don’t want to mess with the air flow. So I’m thinking some creative ducting and vent out the holes drawn in. The hole is surrounded by bracing so why not add channels like the stock ones and a couple added pieces of trunk rubber seal. Going to use some factory light bucket funnels to drain any water out the bottom. My question is: it seems that these holes in the hood would be no smaller than the holes I’ve seen with the wheel well cooler exhaust systems. What do you guys think?
I have the big hole in the trunk lid with ducting
Tried two other set ups first but the big hole (same cooler) brought oil temps down more than the first two attempts (measured oil temps)
You want your output duct to be about twice the volume of you input side
That is a big hole. Maybe I can figure a way to put it in the middle but at the same latitude and waterproof the frunk.
Not much math
I just eye balled double the size
My cooler is about the same size as a license plate
The air gets warm as it passes through the cooler causing it to expand
So you need a large exit to evacuate it.
And hopefully some scavenging pressures as the air passes over the car
The folks who've done it certainly know the most, but I, for one, like your originally proposed outlets. Maybe not feasible once you look into it a bit, but they are handsome and I understand your logic for venting them as you did.
Kevin
Maybe this is more in line with what you're looking for?
I believe this is @http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?showuser=19241 LS car
@http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?showuser=179
Thanks again dude
As cool as that is, it looks like this is to vent the whole frunk. I went out and looked and the picture does not appear to have headlamp motors. Dang. Well back to the middle.
Yes, that's my LS car and its hood vents. Also yes: no headlight motors. If I were to do it again, I'd try a GT3 or GT4-like vent that's wide and sorta shallow across the hood. Dimension to work/look good.
And for sure you need a vane or some sort of desiign element to create a pressure differential. The noses of our cars tip down so without this, your vent will be a scoop.
If you reviewed that part of my build thread, you saw I made a number of different versions and even did a yarn test to prove out the flow was doing what I wanted.
If I can help provide additional info or lessons learned, let me know.
@http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?showuser=19241
Thank you! If you mean these I had one like that in the middle in mind.
Room for 2 tool boxes
Not waterproof
The hood sets inside of the duct
I clean after driving in the rain
It used to be a trailered race car,
Back when I cut the hood in the 90’s
I trash bag the luggage if my wife attends events
RRC in two weeks!!!!!!
Most pics from my street car thread in sig
First picture from today as I pack
Dad did the sheet aluminum duct work
I put ultra-grey on the seams to help with waterproofing
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