Air Scoop Question
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Air Scoop Question
Is there anyone that can answer this question with a high degree of confidence? - not hear-say or myth.
Why do we face a hood air intake to the rear and not the front?
Why do we face a hood air intake to the rear and not the front?
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But you will always be design/law limited in a street application. In any case, it won't make much difference where the scoop is or what direction it's facing if you are thinking ram air. Just not going to happen in a practical sense. You have to change high-velocity, turbulent air into the stagnant, pressurized air a ram air system needs. There's just no effective way to do that from a packaging perspective on a street car. The plenum required has to be pretty big.
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Im thinking your talking about 73 and up hoods, (if not disregard this post), theres a pocket of air that circulated in front of the windshield and thats what gets pulled in through the air intake, its "cowel induction"
I hope this helps
Miles
I hope this helps
Miles
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Thanks guys, that's pretty much what I hoped to hear. Really appreciate your prompt response to my question. Searched the forum but unable to find a diffinative answer.
cheers from down under
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Cowl Induction - it works and it is used on every car
Although relatively few production cars use cowl induction to feed the engine, virtually every car on the road uses it... to feed the heater and air conditioner.
When a car is in motion, there is a high pressure zone of air that forms at the base of the windshield. This area is tapped to feed the car's interior ventilation system. And sometimes the engine, too.
Perhaps the most common (current) application for an engine's cowl induction is on a stock car (think NASCAR). The rules for most circle track (full bodied) cars do not allow a "hood scoop" or exposed air cleaner, so the air cleaner is fed thru a plenum / intake which is located at the base of the windshield.
When a car is in motion, there is a high pressure zone of air that forms at the base of the windshield. This area is tapped to feed the car's interior ventilation system. And sometimes the engine, too.
Perhaps the most common (current) application for an engine's cowl induction is on a stock car (think NASCAR). The rules for most circle track (full bodied) cars do not allow a "hood scoop" or exposed air cleaner, so the air cleaner is fed thru a plenum / intake which is located at the base of the windshield.
