So alot of my friends drive nissans and most of them are turbo.... the following mod is very common but I have never seen it on any other type of car. What is being done is they take out the bolts to the hinges of the hood out.... add an extra bolt or several washers to raise the rear of the hood. It lets there be a 1/2cm gap between the hood and the plastic covering to allow air to pass through the front grill over the turbo and out the other end right under the hood. Does anyone think this is efficiant. the only problem I see is the hood os not flush with the body.. Any thoughts? I will try and do it this weekend and post some pix... I am just tying to think of ways to help cool my turbo on the highway.. I have an oil cooler but I just dont think its enough

 

wow, this has been discussed before, but yes it will cool the engine bay, and yes it will not fit due to you moving the hood up, and yes there will be a gap.

 

Just remove the rubber strip that seals the back of the hood along where the wipers are. Same affect..

 

I've seen it done to some tCs on here, but don't know if they've done any test to see how big of a difference it was or if it was worth it?

 

its a free mod when u get the NRG hood shocks lol

 

thats not a bad idea.. never thought of it

 

i have this mod. helps A LOT with my stage 0

 

Yep - this is an ooold mod V8 guys have used for a long time. We did it to a buddy's car and it looked kinda weird at first.. your hood doesn't line up obviously. But it did help the temps for sure.

 

a few crx's do it when they swap a k20 in because the k20 sits too high

 

you win the prize for the best answer in my book.. so +10 for you.

altough lifting it with washers will be more efficient.. this is how much more:

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^ i did both

 

Twice the efficiency!!! +15 for you my friend! haha

 

:D
i used 2 washers, and took off the weather stripping

 

lol Ok so I know you guys are all giving me the big L on the forehead but I'm having a time trying to get the carpet under my hood to stop burning..... and actually in my book it would be 10hp instead of the 5 you get from stickers....jk....lol

 

rip the carpet off.. i dont have it on my car and i have some gold foil heat shield where my manifold sits highest.

 

lol i might do this too then

 

never thought of it

 

Where did you get the gold foil heat shield stuff!?!?!?!?!? I have been trying to find it for a long time

 

This stuff works.

http://www.heatshieldproducts.com/heat_shield.php

 

x2 i do that on mine as well.