RCZ's 370Z Journal.

RCZ

Thanks Nitex

Spearfish, I've been thinking about a hood and painting all of it. I think I want to do some testing though. I'm gonna borrow a heat sensor to see how each change I make affects engine bay temps. I'm thinking the following:

- Jet hot coating intake charge pipe
- CryO2 Intercooler Sprayer for Heat exchanger / oil cooler
- Reflective gold foil on manifold / Water reservoir
- Heat shielding to isolate headers
- Oil cooler Fan
- Vented hood

spearfish25

I'm very interested to see how that turns out. While the shielding may be helpful for directing or containing radiant heat, my sense is that our engine bay is just too well sealed. While the fans do their best to funnel air in through the radiator, there are no decent exit locations...it's like a fan blowing in the top of a glass jar. Even a hood lift kit (which would look ridiculously stupid) would allow the air to exit at the base of the windshield and probably drop temps substantially. I'd be willing to bet that the shielding doesn't do much until you get the hot air vented out somehow.

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