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Old Nov 19, 2008 | 04:43 PM
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Default Cooling down the engine bay....ahhhh

Well i was doing some thinking, and i thought... how can i keep my engine bay cooler??

1. By letting more cool air in

2. By letting more hot air out



So the first and easiest step seemed pretty obvious. Make the chimney larger.




The next step will be inducting more fresh air into the engine bay somehow... still working on that one. I have some ideas for it.

1. Change my wrc style headlights to be functional air inlets. This one is going to be a bit tricky b/c i'll have to find a way keep my turn signals legal. I was thinking a couple of different setups might just work.


a. Swap positions with high beam/low beam projectors, so that the high beams are on the outside. Wire up the high beam light to flash with the turn signal, since white turn signals are legal in florida, i think i would be ok. Obviously they wouldn't work with the brights on though.

b. Relocate the signal bulb to the bumper wrc style.

c. Relocate the signal bulb to a different position on the light, like on the side of the headlight intake. Leaving the reflective material intact, but covering it with clear coat to protect it from bugs and rock chips.
d. just remove it b/c no one uses turn signals in florida anyways j/k



Here's a pic of the prospected headlights i want to modify





Here's a pic of the functional scoops on the wrc car





input? suggestions? opinions?




OR should i just bail and leave it alone, b/c the difference wont matter and it will just look ugly.

Last edited by skoloseven; Nov 19, 2008 at 04:47 PM.
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