S197 Race Louvers

[blacksheep-1]

I finally found what I was looking for...

Kincaid Performance Inc.

Run ice cold intercooler temps with our Killer Chiller heat exchanger designed to piggyback the vehicle's AC system.

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[TMSBOSS]

Interesting. Looks like you need to run the A/C to make this work.

 

[mavisky]

If you're set on running a positive displacement blower, get the biggest you can and run lower boost. This will result in more airflow and lower IAT's, with the tradeoff being added cost and parasitic drag on the engine.

 

[2012Boss302]

Back to the original post. I have looked at these louvers for my car. Adding up the cost of a salvage yard hood, louvers, and paint work adds up to the cost of a Tiger hood not including paint.

Are louvers better than the Tiger hood??

 

[Fabman]

Back to the original post. I have looked at these louvers for my car. Adding up the cost of a salvage yard hood, louvers, and paint work adds up to the cost of a Tiger hood not including paint.

Are louvers better than the Tiger hood??

I believe either on the AJ Hartman or Racelouvers website they test many hood louvers and a tiger hood in the wind tunnel. I don't have time to look it up now but perhaps @AJ Hartman or Al @ Racelouvers @302blown will chime in with a link.

 

[BKBoss302]

I had only the cost of the vents and a jig saw blade to make these work in the original hood. Since this photo was taken I added a one inch wicker bill on the leading edge of the three vents.

 

[blacksheep-1]

Phoenix always ran tiger hoods, but keep in mind they are RACE hoods not street hoods and the finish quality is comensurate.

 

[Fabman]

Here we go:

 

[Fabman]

 

[twistedneck]

Phoenix always ran tiger hoods, but keep in mind they are RACE hoods not street hoods and the finish quality is comensurate.

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Dont ask me how my tiger hood flew off on the highway at 80mph and got ran over by a semi truck..

 

[302BOB]

Dont ask me how my tiger hood flew off on the highway at 80mph and got ran over by a semi truck..

OUCH!!!!!.....Let me go out on a limb here and take a wild guess that a lack of hood pins could have contributed to this very unfortunate episode.....I'm sure the semi survived unscathed..

 

[blacksheep-1]

OUCH!!!!!.....Let me go out on a limb here and take a wild guess that a lack of hood pins could have contributed to this very unfortunate episode.....I'm sure the semi survived unscathed..

They are pretty flimsy, I could see them tearing through the hood pins.

 

[twistedneck]

They are pretty flimsy, I could see them tearing through the hood pins.

The cause was simple.. Driver forgot to put ANY pins in before driving to store. But its a blessing becuase the Race Louvers stuff makes about 3x the improvement vs. the more tame Tiger hood..

 

[twistedneck]

Here is a pic of race louvers installed on my 2012 GT.