i think the pics look funny becuase the angle of the car too .

but yes snow sucks. lol

 

Pete, dont do that nasty looking scoop.......ugh. I would wrap the manifold and downpipe. Before my car came apart last time I wrapped the dp only and its works good enough so that I could rest my hoand on it for a good second or two after the engine was running. Im defintely gonna hide my FR manifold with it unfortunately. Also I may try a coating that you do yourself and its cheap as ****, can be found for under $30 and all you need is an oven that will cook it at 500 degrees (cant use your home oven if you use it for food too).
Also you can even think about a heat sheild for the manifold...they are ugly but actually work.
Last but not least, you can custom make some type of a scoop under the front bumper to direct air up, but it will need an escape route as well. So you would need the rear of the hood proped up. Or another idea I kicked around was cutting holes into where the wiper cowl is through the firewall and having the air escape through the vents there in the cowl.

 

i really dont wanna take the manifold off. it will be too much of a bitch . i wanna enjoy the car without ripping anything apart for a while. ive had too much work into it and sick of tearing it apart. i was thinking of an under bumper scoop. prob is finding a good sport to mount it and something good to use for it. and having it not slow me down. i got some like metal dryer hose stuff today to run from a nice spot in my wheel well or right around the opening of the front end by my intercooler to the inlet of my turbo. i might do another one on the eother side to just feed some colder air in . . . how many washers do people use to pop the rear of the hood up. i might try that too

 

Here is an extremely cheap & simple idea yet effective at the same time.

Put a few washers on the hood hinge and angle the hood up for more cooling.

Works like a charm.

Since you thermal coated your exhaust stuff then rust is no biggie, but if you get that big *** hole on your hood everything else that is not coated will rust like a Mother.....

Also when it snows again and you got hood that **** will pile on your car and with that big vent there snow will drop into your engine bay and **** things up.

Man I give everyone that lives up north where it snows. I dunno how you deal with the rust on your cars from the salt they put in the snow.

 

i didnt theral coat anything . and the car doesnt get driven in anything other than dry summer weather.

 

My bad then getting that EVO hood thing is not a good idea for you after all.

Well then Thermal coat your manifold, tubine housing and your DP would be an excellent idea. Or just wrap the DP and coat the rest to make it last and hold the heat down.

It's up to you on what you want. It's not cheap but it's worth every penny.

 

i say no to the hood, but yes to the thermotec wrap.

I use it works wonders. silver for the charge tubes, plain for the turbo manifold and downpipe.

 

I typed "hood" in the "SEARCH" function in Archived content, and in 1 minute, found these:

Washers between the hood bracket and the hood to "lift" the hood.





Can you believe teh search function works?

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Turboteggy &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I typed "hood" in the "SEARCH" function in Archived content, and in 1 minute, found these:

Washers between the hood bracket and the hood to "lift" the hood.
Can you believe teh search function works?

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! </TD></TR></TABLE>

Considering this was mentioned on the first page like 5 times.

 

for real tho i feel ya on the engine temp part.....i think i got a similar motor set-up as yours ....everytime i drive i can see heat raise wen i pop the hood....its not even funny.....my temperature fluncates sometime i am thinkin i still have a full size stock gsr radiator its soakin in the heat from my turbo and manifold.......waiting to upgrade to a civic dual core radiator. Is that what your runnin.......i am runnin stock radiator with two fans linked togethers its not even enough


don't do the hood scope too ricey .....

 

On the topic of putting washers under the back of the hood:

This WILL NOT let hot air out the back of the hood! The bottom of the windshield is a high pressure area, and therefore if you lift the back of the hood air will flow IN back there.

Not out.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by kpt4321 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">On the topic of putting washers under the back of the hood:

This WILL NOT let hot air out the back of the hood! The bottom of the windshield is a high pressure area, and therefore if you lift the back of the hood air will flow IN back there.

Not out.</TD></TR></TABLE>

How is that a high pressure area? (Not being a smart ***, just wondering.) And if this is true, then the addition of outside air would still be beneficial right?

 

It just is, because of aerodynamics.

Yes, it can still help to cool the engine bay.

I just wanted to correct the people who were saying hot air will come out there.

 

Since hot air rises, and with the hood raised the part closest to the windshield would be the highest point, doesn't it make sense that it would flow out of there?

And in combination with what ITR said, if he did the dryer tubing, the hot air would need a place to escape, wouldnt the hood prop help then and keep some sort of flow going through there?

 

Hot air will rise about cooler air, if the pressure is the same. This is not the case.

Basically, the air flowing over the car is hanging out in the windshield area, creating a higher pressure zone at its base. When you lift the back of the hood, this higher pressure air will flow into an aera of lower pressure, the engine bay.

 

its an engine. it gets hot. if theres nothing melting or getting damaged, realize that car engines get hot. thats why they burn you're hand! man physics is crazy

 

bear with us here.

you're going 40 mph.

40mph worth of air is rushing over you're hood and then slams into you're windshield and is forced to change direction.

that creates alot of pressure.

now whats going to win, hot airs tendency to rise or 40mph worth of pressure at the base of the windshield?

Cowl induction, great for induction, but I didnt realize it was an underhood heat thing... note sarcasm

 

any body try to weld little heatsinks on their charge pipes? so the charge piping will not conduct anymore heat into the charge air after passing thru the intercooler?

i've seen it done on a charge pipe on an s14 silvia where the charge pipe passes near the radiator so the guy who made the custom piping welding aluminum heatsinks on the area of the chargepipe near the radiator. i don't know if it works though..what do you guys think?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by turb &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">any body try to weld little heatsinks on their charge pipes? so the charge piping will not conduct anymore heat into the charge air after passing thru the intercooler?

i've seen it done on a charge pipe on an s14 silvia where the charge pipe passes near the radiator so the guy who made the custom piping welding aluminum heatsinks on the area of the chargepipe near the radiator. i don't know if it works though..what do you guys think?</TD></TR></TABLE>

I thought that it was really bad to use aluminum piping for charge pipes because aluminum conducts heat really well?

 

the hood lifting trick is crap when it rains. hot air comes out and fogs the window instantly. as for heatinks, that wont work either. the beat way is to insulate the pipes from RADIANT heat coming off the exhaust.

see charge pipe on left of motor

 

Everything that you do to your car has a side effect just like everything else in this world. It's what you want and what are you willing to sacrifice to get it.

I'll would go for a cowl induction so it clears my turbo and give it that muscle car look. It works for me.

Just wish they make a good looking cowl induction hood for the CRX.

 

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i've seen it done on a charge pipe on an s14 silvia where the charge pipe passes near the radiator so the guy who made the custom piping welding aluminum heatsinks on the area of the chargepipe near the radiator. i don't know if it works though..what do you guys think?</TD></TR></TABLE>

That person is a moron. If you wanted heat sinks on the charge pipes, near the radiator is the worst possible place to put them. That will make heat more likely to go IN, not out.