Your thoughts on the enormous new hole in my bumper.
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the more I look at this pic, the more I realize I'm going to end up doing something like this:
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I think i could trim off the bumper from my previous post, get some aluminum and screw it to the underside of the bumper, in front of the IC, then screw it into the extended copy of the splitter I can trace my my sister's bf's car with the TDR splitter. Its going to be scary when I gut the r-pack air dam.
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I think i could trim off the bumper from my previous post, get some aluminum and screw it to the underside of the bumper, in front of the IC, then screw it into the extended copy of the splitter I can trace my my sister's bf's car with the TDR splitter. Its going to be scary when I gut the r-pack air dam.
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Savington: Use touch up paint on the insides of the cut and it will look slick.
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I'll shoot some more photos tomorrow.
Hustler, wait until you actually have cooling issues on track. I'm still running a stock hood, and before adding the new hole and the oil cooler I was seeing stock temp gauge creep and oil temps of 270-275 degrees at Buttonwillow in 110* heat. I guarantee your intercooler is not bigger than mine, too. (27" core) I do have a big radiator, but I still need more airflow. If you run a fair-sized rad, big fans, and a vented hood, I don't think it's gonna matter what IC you have in front of the radiator.
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Ask and ye shall recieve:
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Don't use electrical tape:
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What the hole actually uncovers. You can see the oil cooler to the left and the radiator to the right. Opens up a fair bit of DIRECT airflow to the radiator, which is hard to get with a big intercooler.
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Don't use electrical tape:
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What the hole actually uncovers. You can see the oil cooler to the left and the radiator to the right. Opens up a fair bit of DIRECT airflow to the radiator, which is hard to get with a big intercooler.
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Nice, just what ive been waiting for- more sweet sweet photographs.
Hm, i really like that fourth pic looks pretty aggressive. I wonder how it would look with turn signals still in place.
Hm, i really like that fourth pic looks pretty aggressive. I wonder how it would look with turn signals still in place.
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Hustler, wait until you actually have cooling issues on track. I'm still running a stock hood, and before adding the new hole and the oil cooler I was seeing stock temp gauge creep and oil temps of 270-275 degrees at Buttonwillow in 110* heat. I guarantee your intercooler is not bigger than mine, too. (27" core) I do have a big radiator, but I still need more airflow. If you run a fair-sized rad, big fans, and a vented hood, I don't think it's gonna matter what IC you have in front of the radiator.
When Corky and I were planning the ducting for the heat-exchangers on my car, his expressed rule of thumb was a 1:8 ratio, opening to exchanger surface area.
Considering the abuse I have planned for my car, I expect you should have more than enough *potential* air coming into the bay. But like your engine, air won't get in if it can't get out...
(Note-1: The ducting has yet to be installed, as well as the hood vents.)
(Note-2: The hole next to the "standard" radiator duct is for the oil-cooler.)
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