Think Im gonna cut open my hood..

Lincoln ave said:
Missing Link you just don't get it. When you force that cool air into the engine bay that hot air has to go somewhere. This moddified ram air that i'm talking about will help with your heat soak issue. I understand 100% what you are looking to do, I don't think you are following me 100% or you might think i'm talking about something else. But either way what I have suggested will help with your heat soak issue and get cooler air on the engine as well. I have an LS and I have the same problems you have. I'm modifying a tube to bring fresh cool air into my CAI from under the car and you don't even notice that its their. I haven't done a final install yet due to my back issues it has been put on hold.
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Im following you partially, but, heat rises, so bringing in cold air and with nowhere for the rising heat to escape it wont theoretically do much. Thats why I want hood vents/heat extractors, I would believe them to be "more efficient". That and I have other plans for the limited space in the front bumper/grille area.

The fender vents might be a possibility if I get some "pusher" fans mounted in front of the radiator, or open up both grilles (upper/lower) like I want to.
 
Just installed mine

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Niceeee! Too bad its a photochop.. :( It does look pretty big but I dont think its that thick from front to rear. Hmmm...
 
wouldn't you put it near the front of the hood? not the back?

like mustangs?
 
Yea i probably did make it too thick lol. I was just joking obviously. And yea on the mustang it is towards the front. I thought the point was for the warm air in the back to leave as you drive forward and force air through the front grill?

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I believe what they actually do is offer the air a path out just back from the radiator - reducing the high pressure the occurs in the nearly sealed engine bay. This improves the flow of air through the radiator and overall performance of the cooling system. When you look a a Ford GT - it's the design taken to extreme.

I do not believe it is actually meant to remove the engine heat from the engine bay.

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those are ducts that match to the back of the rads. so the airflow comes in the grill and out the ducts, with no buffeting or high-pressure restrictions.
 
just make a good fender well cold air intake. put the filter down behind the foglight like mine. it was a big increase in performance. new tubing all the way to the throttlebody no flexible dryer vent accordian crap that :q:q:q:q sucks. then have your tune redone so your car can run cooler maybe different thermostat. the hood will be more for looks
 
bmsls don't waste your time talking to him about that, he doesn't understand that part. He just wants the looks i'm starting to believe. He wants that ricer looking crap on his hood.
 
it might look cool, its worth a shot. i wanted to make a "cowl" hood but just never did. well see how it turns out
 
Andrizzle said:
Yea i probably did make it too thick lol. I was just joking obviously. And yea on the mustang it is towards the front. I thought the point was for the warm air in the back to leave as you drive forward and force air through the front grill?
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Its towards the front for the reason that QuikLS explained, it pulls hot air out of the engine bay by letting the air coming through the radiator go straight out the top. It would work towards the rear but not for that sole purpose, then it would just be to get hot, stagnant air out of the engine bay. That and I wanted it towards the rear because I was thinking it would be an easier install but I wont know until I get a spare hood.


"bmsls don't waste your time talking to him about that, he doesn't understand that part. He just wants the looks i'm starting to believe. He wants that ricer looking crap on his hood."
Lincoln Ave you never said a god damn thing about making a fenderwell intake, the things you said are in fact complete ricer BS, yea having tubes running from my front bumper/grille to the coils is not riced out at all, not to mention its not gonna do a damn thing except make my engine bay look like complete garbage. Im really starting to think you dont understand a lot, I mean hell, you tried to tell me what MY Trans Am has, like I havent had the thing apart or ever looked at it. Then you tried to tell me that older muscle cars used this type or "ram air" all the time, a ram air system does not move more air into the engine bay, it moves it into the engine itself. Get a fukking clue man, this thread is about a hood, not running crap all over the inside of my engine bay and bumper to get cooler air into my engine. I want to get hot air out of the engine bay, making more air get into the engine bay "might" drop the temp by hmm I dont know, 2-4 degrees, cause guess what, the air is still stagnant and not going anywhere because theres no place for the heat to escape through except get soaked into every thing in that engine bay including body panels.


Pete, thanks for that link/pics Ive never seen that before, looks like a good idea, Im gonna PM the guy.
 
That yellow hood does look good, except if it is not functional it is kinda lame looking.

Also looks like rain would love to just glide right on down in there lol
 
missing I have a clue it's obvious you don't have a clue though. But go ahead and cut your hood apart, I suggested a few things that might be cheaper and save you money in the long run. And if you could read and actually decipher information you would understand where I'm going with this. But obviously your screen name is a clue to your intelligence. I tried to just put my 2cents in and I know for a fact these things work. And by the way if you are forcing in new fresh cooler air the old hot stagnant air has to be pushed out somewhere. Your engine bay is not a balloon, it will not just keep filling up with air and get larger, that stagnant air has to go some where. So i think you might wanna get a clue and look into what you wrote previously. First you wanna move stagnant air, then you change your mind and want to confront the heat soak issue, then you go back to stagnant air issues. Make up your mind. Do you want to cool off the engine bay or do you want cooler air into the engine????? Because you go back in forth in this thread. It's hard to get a clue and help someone when they don't have a clue.
 
The stagnant hot air in the engine bay is the heat soak issue, its the same issue Im not going back and forth with anything. And yes your right the engine bay isnt a balloon but when your forcing more cooler air into the engine bay its going right out the bottom cause guess what, thats how the air/atmosphere works, heat/hot air rises with no where to go because the hood IS sealed, and the cooler air runs right out the bottom where its open. Thats why theres a stagnant hot air/heat soak issue. Its even been talked about before in the thread Pete mentioned and Im sure others as well. And like I said before this thread is about hood vents/heat extractors, not how to get air into the engine bay but how to get it out. Where in this thread have I said I wanted to get cooler air into the engine? Where in this thread do I seem to not have a clue about anything because Im pretty sure Ive had the same idea throughout this whole thread, I think what it really comes to is that I just dont like your idea and your upset about it so you said Im just doing it for looks and Im a ricer or whatever the :q:q:q:q. If you have nothing useful to this thread than just stay out.

Can we get back to the original topic now about venting the hood to cut back on the hot stagnant air/heat soak issue.
 
Andrizzle said:
That yellow hood does look good, except if it is not functional it is kinda lame looking.

Also looks like rain would love to just glide right on down in there lol
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that hood wasn.t finished yet. after the small holes are drilled, i think it would be a good design. since it.s so close to the front, would the minimal water be that big of an issue? how does the ford gt and mustang deal with the "issue"?
 
pektel said:
that hood wasn.t finished yet. after the small holes are drilled, i think it would be a good design. since it.s so close to the front, would the minimal water be that big of an issue? how does the ford gt and mustang deal with the "issue"?
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+1. Looks like some good body work. And I'm pretty sure the yellow is pimer.
 
Seems like it would be a good looking addition. But I agree, you should try it out on a tester hood before applying the application.
 
I am not sure about the water in the mustang and such. I have been thinking of how the water would react on that yellow hood. and it looks like it would spill over the pulley and belt assemblies... I am not sure if that would have any effect. Too bad that guy who did the yellow hood is long gone.
 
I still sent him a PM, maybe by chance itll alert his email or something, hell maybe he still has it and wants to sell it who knows.. Ill give it a week and if he doesnt respond Ill look for a spare hood and do the same thing except functional.
 
pektel said:
that hood wasn.t finished yet. after the small holes are drilled, i think it would be a good design. since it.s so close to the front, would the minimal water be that big of an issue? how does the ford gt and mustang deal with the "issue"?
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Well the GT doesn't have an engine up there to worry about. So I assume there is just a drain for the water to drop down to the ground. No clue about the Stang. I have an idea, just don't let the car sit still in the rain, if you go fast enough it won't matter. :)

A minor point to make: heat doesn't rise, hot air does, but heat itself doesn't. Very stupid an nitpicky I know. And in this discussion it doesn't matter at all.

The bottom line for me: give it a try, lets see what happens.
 
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