Thread: Heat and the engine Bay

Didnt BB do this a while back?
but he did it intake in front

looked pretty good if I remember rightly,,
Pics you say?

hmmm

Archive?
what archive?

Id fit a second snorkle to the vehicle put a squril cage fan in the air box and duct it around the inside of the engine bay set it up to use the snorkle as an exhaust instead of an intake.

I'd try the simple approach. Fit a snorkel to ram air into the engine bay and cut air outlets in the bonnet.

For a Rangie, these outlets could be (in increasing order of looks):

• vents on the rear sides of the bonnet (sometimes using the plastic vents from the rear pillar of a Rangie.
• louvres on the rear sides of the bonnet - harder to do and the bonnet will require removal to take it to a specialist, plus subsequent repainting
• cutting and folding the rear lower edge of the bonnet in the same manner as was done on earlier Suzuki Vitaras

An alternative to a snorkel (and easier and cheaper) is a couple of flexible pipes from under the bumper area up into the engine bay. I make no suggestions on what might happen in water or mud hole crossings!

Ron

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

Id fit a second snorkle to the vehicle put a squril cage fan in the air box and duct it around the inside of the engine bay set it up to use the snorkle as an exhaust instead of an intake.

Dave unless you reversed the Ramhead it would be counter productive..by having the sccop reversed on the bonnet and the electrofan attached underneath it would minimise water/mud ingress. Oh well back to the think tank

My 76 Rangie came with with rear pillar vents mounted in the top face of the bonnet, unfortunately a little close to the heater intake, and if you have the blower on whilst stopped at the lights it tends to draw in hot engine smells!