designing a S/C / TN turbo specific hood!!!!
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designing a S/C / TN turbo specific hood!!!!
I have been thinking about doing this for a while. hear me out then give me your feed back on pros and cons of this idea.
i want to purchase a O.E.M carbon fiber hood. map out, cut, and install a NACA duct just forward of the supercharger/ TN turbo locaton (rivited on for now) with mesh screen at the opening. then about six inches aft of the NACA duct cut and install a vent to create a low pressure area so the hot air will be expelled to the atmosphere. i have always been the type of person to be function over form, but i think this could still be appealing to the eye if done right! i would think this would be worth while and provide substantial cooling to superchargers and turbos a like mounted in this area. please give me some feed back.........
i want to purchase a O.E.M carbon fiber hood. map out, cut, and install a NACA duct just forward of the supercharger/ TN turbo locaton (rivited on for now) with mesh screen at the opening. then about six inches aft of the NACA duct cut and install a vent to create a low pressure area so the hot air will be expelled to the atmosphere. i have always been the type of person to be function over form, but i think this could still be appealing to the eye if done right! i would think this would be worth while and provide substantial cooling to superchargers and turbos a like mounted in this area. please give me some feed back.........
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when i get my z back from GTM i am going to take this one step further. i have a fluke multi meter/thermometer with a remote temp sensor. i will mount the temp sensor on the volute of the supercharger, drive the z under hard boost conditions and take the highest temp reading. after the hood is modded as explained above i will run through the same driving condition and ambient temps and take my final readings. this should prove if this mod is worth while or i am just pissing in the wind.
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Originally Posted by JET MECH
but it dose not have a inlet just forward of the s/c head unit or the turbo so the ram air strikes directly onto it.
As it stands on a stock bumper wth a Seibon hood, the air comes in the front opening on the bumper, moves up past the turbo, and then comes out the top of the hood. It works well enough.
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well then i guess the turbo application is out of the question. the vortech sit well enough over the rad support that this application may be effective. i have the front hood seal removed on my z and when you look through the gap between the bumper and the hood a little over a third of the s/c is over the rad support. BTW i have the varis bumper duct already installed and the cooling effect from this is hardly effective at all.
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Originally Posted by JET MECH
well then i guess the turbo application is out of the question. the vortech sit well enough over the rad support that this application may be effective. i have the front hood seal removed on my z and when you look through the gap between the bumper and the hood a little over a third of the s/c is over the rad support. BTW i have the varis bumper duct already installed and the cooling effect from this is hardly effective at all.
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