That would be awesome. The hood looks great. Would it be possible to include provisions for closing or covering up the vents, in case of being caught in the rain?
I make the hoods myself. Look in my sig. Below is the one a made for RON. If i can pry it out of his hands and if we get enough interest we (Steve from TRUE FORGE WHEELS and I ) will be getting them made in fiberglass or carbon fibre. I think we need 10 people to commit. I am going to try and get things together about mid September.
http://www.svtperformance.com/forums/pics-videos-buffet-149/904432-new-custom-hood-dsg-cobra.html
Finishing up with an idea I had. I removed the front bumper, and made some space between the intercooler and the a/c condenser. There is now about 1 1/4" space between them. I'm hoping that this frees up some air flow to the bottom half of the a/c condenser and radiator. Also have a Mark VIII fan that should be arriving today. I will try to remember to take some pictures. Does anyone know anything about wiring a Mark VIII fan to a cobra?
Finishing up with an idea I had. I removed the front bumper, and made some space between the intercooler and the a/c condenser. There is now about 1 1/4" space between them. I'm hoping that this frees up some air flow to the bottom half of the a/c condenser and radiator. Also have a Mark VIII fan that should be arriving today. I will try to remember to take some pictures. Does anyone know anything about wiring a Mark VIII fan to a cobra?
Yep Race Bronco2 knows what has to be modified to make it work, that is what he runs. He may have a "how to" thread somewhere.
You are definitely onto a significant portion of your cooling issue by addressing air flow. Turbo cars with poorly positioned intercoolers will block a ridiculous amount of cooling air flow.
I believe in addition to trimming the foam, you may also be able to cut out part of the lower back portion of the center section of steel bumper reinforcement. The in coming air gets seriously pinched there even on Cobras with an aftermarket supercharger H/E.
I don't like those 160F thermostats, I would ditch that and get a Reische 170 and the also make sure your fan settings are correct in the tune.
Link: http://www.svtperformance.com/forum...ostat-cooling-system-reische-performance.html
Also I recommend getting that air dam on there ASAP, it does help in stop and go and slow driving conditions as well as highway. I would put it on full depth and trim it after it is on the car, so as to maximize the effect. Let it scrape, it's going to scrape anyway on some bumps and driveways so go for the max effect.
The boxing in and managing of the in coming air flow to reduce or eliminate any air from escaping without going through the rad, is a highly effective method and is critical on cars like ours with very limited inlet air volume due to the grille opening sizes.
The boxing in helps to create higher inlet air volume and pressure at the rad inlet. The air damn helps to create higher inlet pressure but mostly it helps to reduce the exit air pressure.
The larger the air pressure difference is between inlet air and exit air, the easier the path for the air and more volume of cooling air flow results.
This is why the heavily vented road race style hoods are such a huge single change cooling improvement.
But the the little stuff does still matter and it does still all add to the final goal of improved cooling.
I personally found my car runs much hotter with the Mishimoto radiator than it did with the stock unit. In hind sight I wish I'd spent the extra money and purchased an OEM replacement instead of cheaping out on the mishismoto.
In 98 ~ 100 F weather I'm seeing 230 temps with a/c on just driving normal. Without a/c only really gets down to about 225 or so. Even on the highway doing 70 ~ 80 mph for 15 minutes plus it only seems to cool off to around 220.
When I had the stock radiator on the car in the same weather I peaked at 220 with a/c in back roads hammering on it. Highway driving was closer to 200.
Hmm, that's odd to me. I think maybe your problem could be due to the thickness of the mishimoto radiator. Are you using a stock fan? I think I might have heard the same thing from someone else about poor performance out of their mishimoto radiator and it was attributed to the stock fan combined with some other things that compounded the problem. When I changed to the mishimoto, I kept the stock fan but went to a 70/30 coolant mix and used some purple Ice. Cooling improved some but it wasn't until I put in the Mark VIII fan that the combo really started to shine. Look at a couple previous posts talking a out the results from the Mark VIII fan. It is badass. Combine one with your mishimoto and I guarantee that your cooling problems will be significantly reduced.