Norm Peterson
corner barstool sitter
Same 'idiot' who realized through aerodynamic testing that locally high pressure air at the base of the windshield (and for several inches in front of that) would push more outside air into the rear of the engine compartment (a relatively lower pressure region) instead of letting any hot engine compartment air out. It's not hard to see that "solution" making an existing cooling problem worse instead of better.I don't understand how anybody who designs a hood doesn't get this right. I understand not wanting waster constantly cascading off the windshield and down the front of the firewall. But what's so hard about a few molded 10mm nipples for attaching some dangling rubber tubing off a "tray" like mold under the wiper area? Then you could run a nice 1/2" gap between the back edge of the hood and the aformentioned "tray" for air to be drawn off. What idiot thought sealing the top of an engine bay was a useful goal?
Aerodynamic behavior is not always visually obvious and can be exactly opposite to what a simplistic "common-sense" approach may suggest should be happening.
Norm
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