Originally Posted by Ben
(Post 123591)
My A/C is cold now. I mean *cold*. Boosting around town I felt like Satan frozen in the 7th layer of hell.
I'm glad you cut it like you did, that's how I would have suggested. a little expensive, but the hood vents on the bottom of this page would look cool: http://www.carbontrix.com/vents.htm |
No it's R12 that's been topped off with Freeze12. I topped it off around a year ago, a couple of ounces was all. Haven't put the gauges on it since, either, but it's cold. I'll put a thermometer in a vent next time I take it out.
Haven't cut the other vents in yet. Not had time. I did get to help Ben w/ his turbo project, and I got to hang some shelves in the garage though. So at least I have been productive. The difference is absolutely the extra airflow through the condensor. Neat stuff. If I got another crack at it, I would just have cut 3 sides (the sides and the rear) instead of doing the H. I think it would have been easier for me to build up a little lip in the front with some filler (liquid steel?) than for me to do the extra body work required in making my cuts look right. |
Your PS/AC+ alternator belts wont like the easy acces to rain much.
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Rain? In Atlanta? :rofl:
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I ain't scurred.
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I bet at highway speeds there wouldn't be any rain problems. When it rains you could carry that magnet around and cover it up.
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Originally Posted by cjernigan
(Post 123710)
I bet at highway speeds...
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Am I missing something? Does it not rain in ATL?
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It's just hot there all the time and they don't get much rain. There is also only like 3 hours of non-heavy traffic through the interstate highways through and around atlanta. I think they say traffic starts at 3 am and ends at about midnight or something (humorously).
Ok, i bet at 45 mph with enough lip action on the hood he wouldn't have any rain problems but what do I know. |
Originally Posted by Ben
(Post 123699)
I ain't scurred.
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Out where Ben lives? No sweat going highway speeds. Now where I live, first gear is still very useful, even now that I'm boosted ;)
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Hard to get to the speed limit in town, and I can hardly imagine Ben driving at or under hwy speeds where he lives. Not with that power - more like race track speeds. Though I will say that after 10pm during the week, traffic is pretty much dead in town. That's when I make my logged runs- small stretch of major hwy that comes inside the perimeter interstate that remains four lanes (for commuter traffic). I can check for speed traps driving out, and then make the run on return.
Yes- 75% percent of GA is in a severe drought right now. It's the kind of drought that's going to kill some big trees around here. We had one almost 20 years ago and it killed a 150yr old oak tree off my back porch. |
Originally Posted by Kurt Rohmer
(Post 124125)
that carbontrix wide vent looks very nice.... $99 buckaroonies, well not today i still need to source a used bipes for the same money :(
yeah I'd love to use that one day....just a pretty vent. Cut out the shape and bondo it from underneath....boom extraction hood heaven. and keeps with my red/black theme :greddy: |
Though it seems pricey- there's something to be said for cutting a hole, sticking on event and driving away. I'd go for the fiberglass variant... if there was one.
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that vent is also pretty big (10" front to back). might be cool on a larger car, but I think it may be too deep and too tall to look right on the miata.
is that where you got your CF naca duct from? |
Originally Posted by m2cupcar
(Post 124152)
Though it seems pricey- there's something to be said for cutting a hole, sticking on event and driving away. I'd go for the fiberglass variant... if there was one.
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Originally Posted by Ben
(Post 124153)
is that where you got your CF naca duct from?
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not always the best...one time when i was a kid i burned a hole in my carpet cause i thought crayons smelled good.
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mmmmm..... crayons....:p
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I was always one to play with electricity myself nothing like abit of selfimposed electroshock to get the juices flowing. :rofl: singed crayons and carpet is a delicacy, in Virginia is it hmm.
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