Xenon 370Z Quarter Window Scoop???
 

This should be here, not exterior.

Yes I said it!! Broke my side window replacing the quarter panel. its $120 to replace or I can get these. I'm thinking of running them with ducts to the diff cooler or rear brakes. Any idea on the brakes? Will it help much?

PS, these are $150 everywhere. Why the hell is Z1 selling for $140 each?

Replacing the quarter panel???
Maybe to cool the diff, the rear brakes are the better part of useless.

Yep. Check my build thread.

Well the diffs under the car with a nice ramp up. I don't have a wind tunnel but it seems to work great as is. Not sure how much winds under there.

If you decide that maybe using the Xenon lower scoops that attach to the side skirts might be a better option for brake cooling, I have a new set I'll sell ya at a good price.

What about using that cavity as a spot to feed fresh air to your helmet. I don't know hot it gets in Ohio but in ct weather it's in parking lot or track. The humidity is horrible with no a/c and a vent into my hemet would be freakin awesome.

Thanks but I have to fill that hole. Turning to a track car I have to go cheapest and lightest.

That's an idea. I wonder how much it'd be though having to turn back forward since the windows in the back. For the time though I do have a/c :). I still think brakes are important. The rear must be somewhat important or ice mode wouldn't happen when you go with the same pads in the rear as the front.

Just saw this on FB but all in Japanese, any idea what they're using these for?

Well, their rear brakes are massive, I can see the ducts being used for cooling the rear brakes

Found some more. Looks like 6" tubes going to the old gas tank? But this is a brz I think.

But then the brz in another pics going to the trunk...I'm confused

Well, this pic is of the car less finished, and I don't think with the gas tank even in the car... So I think it moves after the put more crap in the car.
Realistically it's to cool the driver or something.
Drift cars have the radiator or some cooling apparatus in the back

Yep, cooling system in the trunk.
What it cools, I'm not 100% certain, but as stated above, I know that in drift cars, the same thing is done

Well in the pic in post 9 there is no radiator so youre probably right. Also in 7 post the trunk has a bunch of holes in the lid. Hmmm

Yep, and that would be PERFECT for the 370 because it's already too heavy in the front.

If anyone has the balls to DIY that, it's TOTALLY you.
(I believe they put oil coolers back there too)

What's mounted in the rear is often the diff cooler, tranny cooler, close to the rear is the oil tank for the dry sump, cooling system for the driver.

Done. Just need hose.

is going to be "draggy" though ....

Huh

Will create drag ...... for me, I'd use a Naca duct in place of a "scoop"

I don't think. It'd be like blowing threw a straw head on. It just goes in and right out. I doubt a NACA duct would pull much air in being flush on the side of the body. It might but I'd rather have these feeding a NACA duct. With the pics on the first page, Japanese race teams would be using something better if there was something.

What did you decide the ducting will go to? Also how did you take off the window?

Rear brakes.

A big hammer :tup:

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I'd like to make her Thor, but just between the legs.

That reads so good in Mike Tyson's voice.

The whole point of a NACA duct is to be an effective flush mount, low drag, intake. That's what it's engineered for and they work.

I don't doubt that but where on the body? There will be dead air spots. These 100% work and being so open for the window, any air moving in moves right out so no drag.

Finished the vents :).

I got 22g steel and cutout the hole and to fit the windows shape. I had some 2.5" SS pipe laying around that I then tac welded to the steel. Then I bondo'd filled the gaps for an air/water tight seal then plasti dipped everything because that is also water proof. Then I siliconed in front and behind the steel for a water tight finish and used self tapping screws to secure it to the body.

The air flow in is very great because the 2.5" pipe is at the back of the vent. It acts like a big parachute and funnels all the air into the pipe. The rear brakes should remain pretty cool :tup:

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Looks nice dude! Now all you need is some aero and a cage. Where are you going to run the hose through?

Working on all of it. Seat and bracket first then cage, wing whenever I find one and front splitter again whenever. Need a local sale of alumalite.

Through the trunk floor.