Andrew 825SM

After driving my car around town normally, I notice that my hood is very hot to the touch and that my engine bay is emitting a lot of heat when I open the hood. I may be sounding too paranoid, but wondering if this is completely normal or if my engine is running too hot.

Snafu-Si

I notice that too once I got the turbo put in, so I picked up one of these.





Just in case you are completely blind, it's a vented CF hood. Lots of hot air comes out of those vents. I can see steam coming out when it's raining.. Not that I drive in the rain, it's just .. I had no choice at the time.

Eh.. just tossing out an idea.

Full-Race Javier

this stuff works well
http://www.designengineering.c....html

mskibbz-T

Where are the vents? I can't see any

sparkz

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a cheap &gt; $1 trick to help vent your engine bay is to add some washers to increase your hood height in the rear

Snafu-Si

Yeah, it kind of hard to the see, it's in teh shadow in teh first pic. Look where the hood drops down and that's where the vents are. Which also is right above the manifold when teh hood is down, which is conviently the hottest part of the engine bay.

turb

just get a sheet of aluminum and make a heat shield to cover the manifold. tack weld nuts on the manifold so you can use short bolts to fasten the heat shield onto the manifold.

had the same problem before but after i made a heat shield, temperatures dropped and it's not that hot anymore.

shortyz

yeah heat shield helps. and wrap your downpipe and manifold.

Integra_Boi

actually i think it made me lose some clearcoat after a fresh paint job on the car.. but i brought it back to the painter for "paint defects fix" hehehe because atfirst i thought he missed a spot which was tru.. but then i began to see more and more...

bruthaboost

My thermocouple under the hood read around 180 F with 85 F ambient temps.

BodyKits NW

You need to take more pics of that hood for me!

CivicSoul

If you get caught in a downpour after running hard, you could very easily crack or warp your manifold! That is why i would never get a hood with the vent right over the turbo! The paint on the underside of my hood is baking off but who cares.