not really if u look and phillys underhood shot you will see that if placed it right spot you will not be cutting into the hood braces, and that is what really gives a hood its rigidity

 

DO IT!! not fully sure but that looks like it would fit, maybe a tiny bit of trimming to the braces but seems good.

and to the OP, those look great, time for me to go hunting at the JY

 

you should be able to just cut that out without hitting any supports...so you dont have to worry about losing strength in your hood...and i too was scared at first for a bout the first half hour i kept finding stupid things to do because i was afraid to make the first cut...once the first cut is made the fear goes rights out the window....and thanks to everyone that commented on my vents

 

I have the same daytona turbo vent. Got it at jy for $12.00. What I want to do mount it is get a second hood skin and dome it. So it will be like 3" higher than the rest of the hood. Then cut and mount. I will post when I get started on it. Might have pictures, someone stole my digital camera.

 

yea i want to see it when you get it done so definitely try to get pics up

 

did the same thing






temp have been down alot and whats good about this is when ur stuck in traffic the rad fan pushes air out of the front vents so air is coming in and out everytime.

 

mayko i like those where did you get them?

 

you know i wanna do vents on mine as well but for some reason my temp stays way low on my 89. its got the open system conversion done but still stays way down. except for one time tryin to tow some toyota out of the mud. that time it hate life so idk what i wanna do. any suggestions?

 

I personally think they look good and serve a very good purpose as well.

 

I'll probably do them just for the sake of never overheating, along with dual electric fans.

 

Sorry to have to contradict you, and although it's counter-intuitive, forcing air in through the top of the engine to cool it won't work in a Jeep. First, the engine is too high off the ground. When moving, air acts like any other fluid (like water, which is why they use water in aerodynamic testing). As a fluid it's going to seek the path of least resistance, so the majority of the airflow over your engine is from the bottom up. Thats why having the vents facing (correctly) with the opening towards the windscreen helps more. The air rushing up under your engine bay travels over the engine, and is pulled out through the vents similar to a chimney stack, as there's a small pocket of low pressure air created just behind the vent openings due to their angle. Air likes to flow from high pressure to low pressure, so that draws the cooler air from the ground up through the engine bay, where it heats up, and out through the low pressure vents.
Now that being said, it does work the way you described in a very low suspension racer...say a Lamborghini, where they have worked the aerodynamics so finely so as to almost eliminate any air travelling under the car at all, and the air flows so smoothly over the body of the car that they have to interrupt it with 'backwards' vents to get it into the engine at all.
Just my 2 cents worth! LOL

 

Well said. I say it is for purely for cosmetics.

 

sorry ebay. i think it was like 10 bucks.

 

My vents are facing the windshield to let heat out. When I'm at crawling speeds in the woods you can see the heat pouring out of the vents.

 

I have the lebaron vents, and they work great when crawling, and look fantastic.

Make sure you get drip pans though...these sumbiches WILL fry your TPS.