Forcing Air into the Engine Compartment, Engine Cooling ??? Options

[Highland]

I'm guessing it's been tried, but is there a downside to forcing fresh oncoming air into the engine compartment? I've read that removing the rain tray does not help cooling which tells me the 2 engine compartment side vents are more than adequate to feed the centrifugal cooling fan; so perhaps increasing engine compartment air pressure and reducing relative air temperature would help.

So don't laugh too hard at the pictures (IMG:style_emoticons/default/av-943.gif) It's a first pass attempt.

I did a couple of runs on my normal joy ride and am qualitatively seeing about a 5 to 10 degree head temp reduction and quicker cooling to normal temps after an uphill grade. Also cruising at 65mph in 5th I'm seeing about a 10 degree reduction in steady state temperature. I have a big hole in the back due to a 3D print problem and my duct tape keeps on flying loose so not getting full duct air. I just have a VDO head temp gauge on #3 plug. As many of you know the VDO has 50 degree hash marks; so not real accurate reads.

So is it correct that head temps are not affected by outside air temp, that's an oil temp thing?

Has anyone tried this? The stock grating is still in place. Can I be doing any harm?

[Shivers]

Seems to have good air flow on the rocker and they come in fiberglass. Could pick up some cool air with a scoop and think brake cooling ducts. That size from each side would bring in some air with out over pressurizing the engine bay. (someone mentioned fan issues) Maybe like this: Red is exposed, blue is inside with start collar and orange is the flex tube to a small collar added to let air into the engine bay. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)