My normal Friday off today, the home boss didn't have anything on the honey-do list, so I'm out in the garage tinkering. It's starting to warm up here in the desert - should kill off this Wuhan virus soon - and was thinking about cooling ME when I finally get to drive my car. Was looking at the space around the radiator between the sides and top that gaps to the hood seeing that air will go around the radiator and not through it. That gap needs to be filled in to push all the air coming in the front through the radiator. Hmmm, I'm thinking this gap could be put to good use.
Have already been designing in my head an idea for twin cooling scoops on either side of the radiator, to fill the gaps, to direct air to a heat exchanger that will be mounted behind the radiator - so I don't have to cut holes in the hood for NACA ducts. There is a good 2 inches in width and 12 inches in height to grab enough air volume to blow through a heat exchanger.
The gap on the top of the radiator is big enough to also put a scoop and air plenum to the underside of the hood to grab the rest of the high pressure air that would be wasted. A big flat panel with an opening an inch in front of the radiator is all that is needed, the panel gets bonded to the inside of the hood. Got out the cardboard and mocked up the panel and did a test fit of the hood onto the frame - perfect fit. The panel is 10 inches at the front tapering to 22 inch at the rear and is 33 inches long, shaped to fit against the bottom of the hood contours. A fiberglass panel and a pair of universal vents off eBay and I will be much cooler when driving!
Capturing all this air to prevent the bypass and using it for cooling - heat exchanger and cockpit - will kill 3 birds with one stone.
