summer's coming
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summer's coming
so i'm looking at ways to keep the under the hood temps down... and there's all these threads on low pressure high pressure? stuff that 19 year olds like myself just don't understand the concept of..... So i was wondering...i have some small washers on my hood as of now to raise it so the temps stay lower...in theory....
i was just wondering what kindof spacers people are running to raise their hood... since i read somewhere that this can decrease your under the hood temp by like 10%...
anyone have turn signal intakes they might wanna sell? that are still black?
i was just wondering what kindof spacers people are running to raise their hood... since i read somewhere that this can decrease your under the hood temp by like 10%...
anyone have turn signal intakes they might wanna sell? that are still black?
#3
raising the back of the hood actually makes it a high pressure zone in the back. I'm sure you have heard the term cowl induction. Those actually pull air in at the windshield. This is useful on old v8s because the carb airfilter is right there. not useful on our cars (unless you have a v8 swap). Its just a "look" that people like. It will only decrease your cooling efficiency.
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hey now don't bust my ***** ...i'm a business major...Smeal is just calling my name right now!!!! yeah so I have a D in economics and I need a 100% to get a Mid C... i should be studying right now!!!! procrastination is a disease.
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lol... yes you doo M2cupcar...yes you do...
so basically what is the most effiecient way to run the best pressure in a miata engine bay? make sure that my radiator lets air through? ....how does the heat dispurse from the exhaust manifold and what not? does it get sucked below the car?
so basically what is the most effiecient way to run the best pressure in a miata engine bay? make sure that my radiator lets air through? ....how does the heat dispurse from the exhaust manifold and what not? does it get sucked below the car?
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lol... yes you doo M2cupcar...yes you do...
so basically what is the most effiecient way to run the best pressure in a miata engine bay? make sure that my radiator lets air through? ....how does the heat dispurse from the exhaust manifold and what not? does it get sucked below the car?
so basically what is the most effiecient way to run the best pressure in a miata engine bay? make sure that my radiator lets air through? ....how does the heat dispurse from the exhaust manifold and what not? does it get sucked below the car?
I'm going to work on making an undertray to fit with it.
#12
heres the short version
hood risers work at low speed, great for cooling off in the paddock,
they do jackshit and ruin your air flow in the engine bay at higher speeds (+30mph), track events for example are the worse place for these.
I have them and they reduced my idle cool down time significantly. but it makes the fresh air vents on the cowl into more heater... so suck it up.
the ideal way (also more expensive) is really great shrouding and belly pan, the cheapest way is to use what mazda gave you and heat shield the sensitive stuff.
hood risers work at low speed, great for cooling off in the paddock,
they do jackshit and ruin your air flow in the engine bay at higher speeds (+30mph), track events for example are the worse place for these.
I have them and they reduced my idle cool down time significantly. but it makes the fresh air vents on the cowl into more heater... so suck it up.
the ideal way (also more expensive) is really great shrouding and belly pan, the cheapest way is to use what mazda gave you and heat shield the sensitive stuff.
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vinyl glove. I'm acually going to install studs in the IC ports and move the scooper down a bit to scavenge in a bit more....I really need a pressure gauge, I'm probably going to redo the underbelly tray with aluminum as well.
#17
The concept that air moves from high to low pressure is pretty simple. That forward movement causes high pressure areas at the front of the car is pretty simple. The hard part is figuring out where the low pressure areas in the engine bay are and how adding openings changes the position of low pressure areas relative to high pressure areas.
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http://cafefoundation.org/v2/pdf_caf...localflow2.pdf
Talks alittle about creating the low pressure needed to get the air out of the engine compartment. Basically involves creating an airfoil to create the area of low pressure. This could be incorporated with the undertray.