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Originally Posted by Denny McLain
On the way home after a 45-50 minute workout: 93 degree initial intake temp, went down to 82 driving temp within a mile and 80 WOT. Went to 8 and 6 over by the time I made it home with hot engine.
Simpler for me than routing tubing and seems to help some. Next move is a larger air diverter and isolating the rear of the filters some from the radiator.
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Seems to take a while to clear a hot engine bay...One trick you may try is to pop the rubber seals off the back of the engine compartment where the plastic seals to the hood. The long one to the rear and the two shorter ones just forward of that. This encourages air flow through the back of the engine compartment (high pressure area at the base of the windshield). Remove the plastic part at the strut brace triangle for even more flow (2 push pins and it snaps out). I've datalogged this on other cars and found an 18 degree reduction in engine compartment temps (on a turbo). It's a cheap and easy cooling trick...