Oh yeah, I remebered one thing I forgot from earlier....
I mounted a heater core from a 1984 Buick Skyhawk underneath the radiator
panel, and cut a hole in my dam for cooling. I run the lines from the
interior lines to this auxillary cooler in the summer. (After a batch of bad
heater valves, I dismantled mine and had someone weld a plate where the
'valve' part goes, effectively turning it into a 90 degree elboy without
flow reducing abilities, and therefore, no drips onto the distributor,
resulting in the cessation of engine activites at highway speeds).
I wanted to run ducting to the brakes to be 'cool', but let's be realistic
guys, for a street-driver, you really don;t need it. But if you want to, go
ahead. It's your car.
Wifh the mutha f**king rain would stop..I want to be outside. I wish I
wouldn;t have picked this week to quit smoking.
Thomas
-----Original Message-----
From: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>
To: MG List <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: Saturday, June 24, 2000 4:41 PM
Subject: Re: Doing the Front Spoiler thing
>While it may slightly increase your frontal area, I would think that the
>reduction in drag (by preventing much of the turbulent airflow beneath
>the car) would more than make up for it. That seems to be the logic
>behind modern production car aerodynamics. On the other hand, I would
>doubt that you'd see much actual downforce until over 50-60 mph.
>
>Hard to predict the effect on engine cooling. Ought to help, by reducing
>air pressure under the car and therefore in the engine compartment, and
>pulling more air through the radiator. It does seem as if you might want
>ducts to the front brakes. You might also consider cold air ducting to
>the carburetors -- you don't want them struggling with low pressure,
>pre-heated radiator leftovers.
>
>No actual experience talking, here, just "bench-racing" small talk...
>
>Eric had this to say:
>
>>I know you haven't seen the spoiler that I have, but it leaves a decent
>>five inches or so clearance from the ground (no 'ground-effect here to
>>any degree:-). One of the reasons I want to try it out is to see how
>>much more air it may gather (air dam in the front) to keep the engine a
>>little cooler. Hell, if it helps any I will put in ducting to cool the
>>brakes more, too.
>>
>>Any thoughts on what this is going to do, aerodynamically to the car?
>>They are designed to suck the front down a tad (at the slow speeds we
>>do, I don't know) to help handling, but what will this do to my
>>straightline speed - slow me down?
>>
>>I guess I can just suck it and see, but if any of you have front spoiler
>>experiences, I would love to hear.
>>
>>
>>Eric
>>'68MGB MkII
>>
>>PS Yes, I think I have prepared myself, even with this large ground
>>clearance, to accept the fact that I will possibly destroy the thing if
>>I go off the track in the wrong place.
>>
>
>
>--
>
>Max Heim
>'66 MGB GHN3L76149
>If you're near Mountain View, CA,
>it's the red one with the silver bootlid.
>
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