Originally Posted by StephenC
nevermind the cooling issue, that escort is
had a few more thoughts after reading all this. What if the rear quarter windows had vents in them, possibly similar to NACA style ones, but had 'scoops' covering those vents so when moving the air is forced into them rather than hopiing it flows into them. Also, with my car in particular it would make sense to get a carbon fibre intake for the roof but actually get it mounted into the sunroof area (not sure if the mk3 fiesta or mk1 in question in this thread has sunroof) and duct along the roof area into the enclosure that the rear windows are feeding. Similar to the Pat Doran fiesta but without having to chop the roof. Exiting again either in the number plate area or light cluster area (led to believe this will be at low pressure, whereas the roof must surely be higher pressure when car is travelling at 100mph+?).
I think the proper method would be as the norweigen ecos where it is brought from underneath and rear windows but for me this wouldnt be an opition, theres no way im cutting the boot floor out just to get a bit more space in the front.
Ilike your ideas there....
The end point though of chopping the boot out is the only option i have at moment without drastically changing the front end. The front bumper needs to be retained and the only way to resolve the space issue would be to bring the rad and intercooler forward about 7 inches, this is currently not possible. I would need new design bumper etc, and im not 100% this would keep the turbo from boiling the rad.
In a coosie you can run a big turbo hapily as the engine sits longtidunally and the turbo is to the offside of the engine bay.
In mine with the turbo im wanting to run a gt38 the turbo will be sat right up aginst the rad, and will act like a kettle.
The sacrifical death of the boot floor is at the moment the only option for me. The car is a pure track/race car now so all luxuories are long gone.
The hole or slot as i like to call it now will be fairly minimal as its the scoop and ducting underneath that will do all the hard work.