[Tigers] I'll Be Dammed!

[Steve Sage]

Hello Buck:
I mentioned in a post a day or two ago that I do have my hood propped 
open and it definitely vents air out at speed, and makes a difference. 
It may help a bit in stop and go too, since all that hot air has some 
way out, although that would be tough to prove.

Steve Sage
>
>
> An earlier post mentioned the theoretical disadvange to propping a 
> hood open for engine compartment ventilation. (Reasoning that venting 
> into a high pressure region is difficult)  I'd like to point out that 
> when a Tiger's hood latch is not operational, that a stock steel hood 
> will "lift off" around 70mph (depending on headwind/tailwind). We 
> discussed this at SUNI and the consensus is that it will only lift 
> seveal inches and then levels out. However I have seen the light 
> weight LAT hoods still lifting at 6" up, enough to force a race driver 
> off the track. The lifting hoods indicate to me that a higher pressure 
> can vent nicely into a high pressure area.
>
> Buck Trippel
>





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