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Originally Posted by Paolo Castellano
That is correct depending on the aerodynamics of the hood where the scoops on the hood would be located.
You would still have to overcome the radiant heat soak of the headers and overall radiant heat sink of the engine heating those intercooler cores when you are not moving.
Trust me, the rate at which those intercoolers would heat up without air moving through them would be great.
Sitting in traffic at a light could easily net 200+ degrees of IAT's after only a couple minutes if a front mount car's intercooler piping can hit 135ish just from the radiator's heat being blown on them by the fans.
Lingenfelter did it much better by putting the intercoolers behind the foglights.
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Radiant heat could be blocked from reaching the ICs, but if there wasn't enough engine compartment venting to reduce underhood temps, it'd all be for naught as engine temps rose, maybe even more so due to hood louver space being taken up by the ICs, and the computer pulled out power.
So what about adding electric fans to ICs? No room in a hood mount, but perhaps in other IC mount locations
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