for those of you who have a GT style engine lid Options

[SirAndy]

one thing i noticed when dropping the engine this weekend was that
the heater blower on top of the engine is mounted in a slight angle
and when it rains hard, it fills up with water!
get's into the hoses too.

you turn on the heater fan and it'll blow loads of water into your heat-exchangers
and eventually into the longs!

gotta need to attach a small block off plate to the underside of the lid
right over the fan.

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Andy

[Randal]

Given our great PCA rules about cutting sheet metal, I still think a GT hood, along with a big fan (1600 cfm) pushing air out through the oil cooler works.

Proof - before (old style hood) with fan (600 cfm) sucking air in didn't work at all. Just about everything in the engine compartment was cooked (wilted) after running at Buttonwillow (hot place).

After - with GT hood, allowing more air flow in and out, along with a big fan (1600 cfm) blowing air out through the oil cooler worked better (cooler), but still need another 105 degree day at Buttonwillow to confirm. I did have a big 4 inch HD drain pipe scooper at the bottom going through the (removed) heater ducts to get more up into the engine compartment.

Probably a front-end oil cooler, with free air is the only real long term effective way. Strong air flow is the only real answer.

I like the oil cooler mounted in the real spoiler, but then the spoiler is just for looks.