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Old 06-27-2004, 08:08 PM
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Default Cooling the engine bay...

As many of you boosted guys know, putting turbo in your honda will make your engine bay temperatures skyrocket to kingdom "***".

My question to you guys is what are your suggestions in keeping the engine bay cool...?

The things I've seen done are as follows:

1) Wrap header, downpipe, etc with the heat wrap
2) DIY fast and the furious style holes on the OEM hood
3) New CF hoods with some holes already fabricated in
4) Raising the back part of the hood like an inch so more air can get through the engine bay.
5) No HOOD.

I'm just trying to find an economical way of cooling my engine bay down. I'm probably going to be wrapping the downpipe and parts to keep it a tad cooler...

Any ideas? Or what you've done?
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Old 06-27-2004, 08:36 PM
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I say wranp the mani. and get a fan with higher rpms.

If you have the money just get a nice carbon hood with an inverted scoop.


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Old 06-28-2004, 04:04 AM
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open up the "foglight" holes in the front bumper and run dryer ductiong to the hot spots.
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Old 06-28-2004, 05:22 AM
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I would go for the raising of the back hood, it's the least rice/most HMT approach to your solution.
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Old 06-28-2004, 08:56 AM
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i just removed rubber seal between hood and cars body (between windwashers nd hood) and got tiny hole. i dont know how good it helps to cool engine bay, but i think it work atleast a little. and that mod took 2 minutes =))
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Default Re:Cooling the engine bay...

Originally Posted by Doofnoil
open up the "foglight" holes in the front bumper and run dryer ductiong to the hot spots.
This is not rice, it will work very effective if done rightand will not be noticable. It is one of many "old shcool" DYI mods.
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Old 07-01-2004, 09:24 PM
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it would be a good idea for guys running ac to run a dryer duct pipe to their ac compressor if their downpipe is realy close to it.
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Old 07-01-2004, 11:25 PM
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I would go for the raising of the back hood, it's the least rice/most HMT approach to your solution.
I agree, just washer it to raise it up between the brackets and the hood... simple yet effective. Cutting holes in the oem hood looks gay... most scoops tend to also.
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Old 07-02-2004, 09:26 PM
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Originally Posted by accordepicenter
I would go for the raising of the back hood, it's the least rice/most HMT approach to your solution.
I agree, just washer it to raise it up between the brackets and the hood... simple yet effective. Cutting holes in the oem hood looks gay... most scoops tend to also.
I concider my car a sleeper ( the hood will be painted to match ) and I don't think my vents are "gay".

I also have part of the rear water seal removed from the engine bay ( I left a little around map sensors ).

check it out: http://f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/max...&.dnm=7102.jpg
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Old 07-02-2004, 09:28 PM
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another veiw: http://f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/max...&.dnm=740f.jpg

"copy/paste" if you didn't know already.
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