Hood Vent

[SledgeHummer]

hehehe ok have it your way

Here's an idea, I dont know if you live in a cool or hot area, my area is defintely hot, 125 degree in the summer. I thought about the vent thing, but for a purpose not as an H1 look alike thing.

Anyway, the idea is : make a "vented" hood (intake) then install an air cooler radiator, same as the one they they have for superchargers and turbos (intercooler) to cool the hot air during the summer. which means I would have to install the intercooler on the inner part of the hood.

Or a lesser hassling alternative would be to open up the "vent on teh hood and have some out-vent openings on the side fenders.

Then I took my H3 to the Desert in August, and it was registering 51 degree celcius on the rear view mirror digital thermometer. I started my quick half-day journey at 12 noon and came back home at around 8 in the evening, I started the engine at noon went off, never switched the engine off, not a single minute until I came back home at 8 in the evening.

during the whole time the engine was on, AC was on to the max in cooling (fan was on 3) and (mind you) during desert drives the engine would be revving between 3 and 5K RPM constantly, I stop each 2 hours for rest (but keep the eingine running). ALL THIS, and the engine temperature guage simply went up slightly past half during worst rough areas.

That got me thinking : why am I planing all this vent stuff ? truck's running BEAUTIFULY even in worst of earth's conditions.

Compare this to my 2000 Chevy Blazer ZR2 (http://www.zr2.com) first thing I would have to do in those conditions is turn off the AC, coz the engine cannot take that kind of heat pressure during the summer, hence sweat the entire trip.
BEARING in mind that I have a an additional electric fan installed on my Blazer, + 3 line "Hidden Hitch" automatic transmission cooler ON TOP of the single line OEM one, modified the radiator from sigle core to a custom made THREE core radiator, switched the 195 cooling thermostat to a 180 degree one from Jaguar so the fan clutch can kick in sooner, all of that plus the AC off all the time to keep the temp at half and preserve the engine.

Compared to my H3, the H3 is still OEM and running perfectly WITH AC ON.

Conclusion : why do it on the H3, truck's perfect as it is. I initially started planing the vent thing coz I expected the H3 to be similar in engineering to the Blazer, I am glad I was wrong.

SledgeHummer