http://www.my350z.com/forum/showthre...er+intake+pics


Basically the guy put spacers on his hood so he could retain the stock parts when he added the IM spacer. This made the back part of the hood stick up.

The guy also measured a 45-50 degree drop in engine bay temps. Would this be a worthy mod?



Any thoughts on this?

 

The thread you link to says that after installing the hood spacers, his engine bay rapidly drops from about 140-150 F at standstill (80 F ambient) to 90-95 F when moving, proving the efficacy of the mod.

I have an engine bay temperature probe, and those are exactly the same temperatures and temperature drops I see in my engine bay, but without the benefit of the hood spacers. So, I'm unimpressed.

 

Drop from...

 

That looks extremely STUPID IMO...

 

i agree i have a temp probe actually on the intake pipe next to where it goes into the fender and i regularly record the same temp drops as him exept ive been all the way down to 80.5* while going 100 and yea ive seen up to 158* underthe hood at a stand still so it just looks like you hood came loose or something IMHO = teh gay

 

Looking at it, i'd figure it would work, but never knew temps would drop without the spacers anyway.

 

Pull the weather stripping out. That is much less hard-core and g@y looking than those stupid spacers. I regularly saw 10 degrees above ambient while moving even with my HAI with this method.

 

In early 04, I volunteered to be a test car for a local engineering company. We were testing the benefits from thicker gaskets and spacers for the IM and TB. In the end, it was decided that our gaskets are thick enough from Nissan and that temp drops wouldn't be as noticable. (Btw, this was all on my 95 vq30de)

 

And whats funny is they sell a couple nuts and blots as a "kit". All stuff you can get from Home Depot...

 

Hahahahahah..