Hot air release from engine? What you got?
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I searched here for the options/thoughts or pic's off bonnets with ais scoops [or is it scopes?] or releated..Couldn't find it,only some bonnets wich where "mounted the wrong way round"on the mountigpoints..with a open side at the scuttle..
The hot air inside the engine bay with a turbo engine is pretty much and i want it gone asap.

Should i blow cool air in like a subarau ? = open side at front
Or should i created a vacuum? = as on pic's..

What's best and why?
So what do you have ?

This is mine..created from 2 corner pieces of a mini roof and a mid section of a roundnose mini bonnet..
As you can see my car is a clubman [estate]







Thanks already..

It's a little car .... eating big money

the pics, 2 and 3 show a good placement, allowing hot air to rise out the engine bay when stood still, but when moving the aerodynamics of the mini will force air down the vent ( scoop )

pm me your email ill send you a pdf you might like to read

Edited by Brett on 8th Oct, 2010.

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Aerodynamics is even worse..it's a clubman 8-)

The idea was to create a sort of vacuum behind the open side while driving that sucks out the hot air..
Sort of the same vacuum principal as the back off a lorry..that's why the road dirt is always the worst on the back off a lorry.
It gets sucked on to the back in a sort off vacuum-storm / tornado wind thing..
[hard to explain in another language..some simple things]
But you probally get my idea / thought's on it.

It's a little car .... eating big money

As brett said, the scuttle is a high pressure area while the car is moving, hence the air flow will go in the opposite direction than you intend.

Edited by Brett on 8th Oct, 2010.

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@brett, thanks for the pdf file..made it all clear and visible for me.

Do please explain : carb imo ??? = Is it a nucliear meltdown of the carb or ice-ing up the carb or anything else..?

Any other options on removing hot air from the engine bay?
Or push in as much cool air as you can get in? Cause the {hot} air flow will disapear for the far most under the car..

[al in driving conditions..no standing still with engine running..]

It's a little car .... eating big money

sorry, non turbo with a carburettor and k&n filter, the air intake is at the back of the engine bay at the top, the raised bonnet or backwards facing scoop is a good cold air intake

imo = in my opinion

so good for a carb imo= good for getting cold air into the carburettor on a non turbo engine in my opinion

Edited by Brett on 8th Oct, 2010.

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