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As many times as i've seen melted plastic panels on cars, NONE of them caught fire.
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01-14-2013, 02:56 AM | #31 |
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Recommended by who? I've seen several post of people saying you need heat extracters but have yet to hear any hard evidence as to absolutely needing them. I'm not saying you don't need them but i'd like to hear from someone in the "know", rather than speculation. There are many cars out there that come from the factory with belly pans and don't have vented hoods. Hell, my old 00 Z71 truck has a brush guard that almost completely covered the underneath of the engine and it didn't have a vented hood.
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In my opinion, the biggest reason for the heat extraction is because of the super charger, not so much as a requirement if the belly pan is on. Katech did wind tunnel testing on a Corvette and added a splitter and belly pan and tested in different configurations to show the benefits are each separately and working together. I'm in the process of getting a new custom heat extraction hood and making a belly pan which will cover the same as the ZL1 plus in front of the wheel wells. This week I'm cutting the template out of a fiberglass sheet for fitment, and then will cut the final pan from aluminum.
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Its all designed to work together
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01-14-2013, 03:30 PM | #35 |
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That explains a lot of what's going on with all the little enhancements. It also mentions and shows that the heat extractors are for added cooling at the higher HP levels. Air goes in the front, then out the top. In our engine bays, the air goes out the bottom, which is where the perceived problem would occur with a belly pan. What's to say that air won't still be forced out the bottom, around the outter edges of the pan and along the pan to the tranny, as it was intended?
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