Crazy idea for the Type IV engine shroud..., ..but I think it would look crazy good! Options

[horizontally-opposed]

So I've seen a lot of people do interesting things with the stock Type IV shroud to make it look more interesting. Body color, silver, red, orange, you name it. But none of these has really appealed to me. I've thought about ideas like CF (too modern for the car for my tastes) and wrinkle black (the way I would probably go). But then I saw the shroud in this thread:

http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?showtopic=81971

I like this color, as it reminds me of the old Bosch distributor caps. But then THAT got me to thinking about another material I associate with this color, and that's the ultra-trick and way cool naked fiberglass Porsche used to use on 906/911R motors as well as throughout the 908s and 917s. Morspeed has duplicated it, albeit at far higher levels of quality and MUCH higher gloss, for its restorations.

Question is, could it be done for reasonable money? Could the stock shroud be used to make a mold? I frankly can't think of a cooler looking, period-correct hotrod 914-4 engine bay than this setup with a pair of carbs so long as the finish can be nailed. I think I'd like it even better than the Fat Perf. setup and the DTM, though I know it wouldn't outperform the latter.

pete

[1970 Neun vierzehn]

Noooooooo,
It didn't come out right, I meant that the red fan shroud should be natural f/g. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blush.gif)

[Jake Raby]

Noooooooo,
It didn't come out right, I meant that the red fan shroud should be natural f/g. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blush.gif)

And it should also have internal diverters to direct the air where it needs to be so there isn't a 150F temperature differential across the 4 cylinders, but it doesn't.

[ericread]

Noooooooo,
It didn't come out right, I meant that the red fan shroud should be natural f/g. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blush.gif)

And it should also have internal diverters to direct the air where it needs to be so there isn't a 150F temperature differential across the 4 cylinders, but it doesn't.

What most people don't understand is that air flow is stupid. If you aim an airflow at a wall, you won't get a nice smooth airflow around the wall, you will get a high pressure point at the wall with a falloff of airflow on the fringes. These internal diverters are absolutely necessary to "shape" the airflow and direct it to where you want it to flow.