under hood temperature management

Supercharged111 · Jul 25, 2022

L31MaxExpress said:
Consider yourself lucky not to have 115-120F air trying to cool your truck. That is what the ambient sensor right behind the grilled has been reading for weeks. Its been close to 110F in the shade every day here. Its only supposed to get to 104 today.

My van is getting fender vents. Very hard to get the hot air out of the engine compartment in a van.

Believe me, I do. TX would be MUCH more appealing to me if it weren't so damn hot. CO is not our forever home.

PlayingWithTBI · Jul 25, 2022

yevgenievich said:
Post up which vents you are thinking.

I'm curious too.

L31MaxExpress · Jul 25, 2022

yevgenievich said:
Post up which vents you are thinking. Looking at the ones from the picture above, it might actually fit the lines of the gmt400. I am in similar or worse operating conditions temperature wise.

I am actually thinking of these. Look like the exhaust extractors on a WW2 Merlin engine. Paint the lip body color and leave the louvers stainless color. They are 13x3 so should allow alot of hot air out. At highway speed they should function like a venturi and draw more hot air out.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07GX3W4Z4/ref=sspa_mw_detail_6?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A2JJLOIJQL1NKZ&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9waG9uZV9kZXRhaWw

PlayingWithTBI · Jul 25, 2022

Supercharged111 said:
TX would be MUCH more appealing to me if it weren't so damn hot

Come on down to AZ

94K3500PROJECT · Jul 25, 2022

I think it’s worth mentioning that a LOT of air that you would evacuate from under the hood, at least on a race car, can be evacuated from the wheel openings.

Applying that to these trucks I feel like somehow removing most or all of the metal inner fenders and rubber splash guards would probably reduce temps under hood quite a bit.

Supercharged111 · Jul 25, 2022

Somebody just needs to pony up and stick one of these pigs in a wind tunnel.

PlayingWithTBI said:
Come on down to AZ

I've been through that state in August. I think you know where I stand.

yevgenievich · Sep 4, 2022

L31MaxExpress said:
I am actually thinking of these. Look like the exhaust extractors on a WW2 Merlin engine. Paint the lip body color and leave the louvers stainless color. They are 13x3 so should allow alot of hot air out. At highway speed they should function like a venturi and draw more hot air out.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07GX3W4Z4/ref=sspa_mw_detail_6?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A2JJLOIJQL1NKZ&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9waG9uZV9kZXRhaWw

I am actually thinking if those will work as an air intake on the driver side fender

yevgenievich · Sep 5, 2022

Wrapped headers worth about 15 to 30* F better intake temperature in the high heat conditions. Now when opening the hood after a hot run, things are still hot but not giant blast of heat in the face

SUBURBAN5 · Sep 6, 2022

Whatever the outcome... please post pics// I've also been interested in some type of underhood cooling mod.

udidwht · Sep 9, 2022

What does the front of your radiator look like?

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