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Originally Posted by Ant Man
One thing I have noticed is most people will start buying different coolers without looking at the biggest constraint first. The v8 produces an enormous amount of heat and more so when it is tuned to deliver more power. It is very tightly packaged and the bonnet is sealed. There is nowhere for the air flowing through the radiator to go.
Removing the rubber boot from the right hand vent lets a lot of heat out but the best thing to do is to run a vented bonnet where the vents are so designed to literally suck the hot air out from the engine bay which also allows the cold air to flow faster through the radiator and the two other coolers in front of it.
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Trackspec makes one of the common vent setups like you are referring to. Doesn't sound like they make much of an impact on their own but are helpful as part of an overall upgraded system. We just put them on as part of the current build process including adding the epic oil diverter valve and trying out a different fan setup. These are in addition to the full do88 big pack that is already on the car - that while it does an excellent job temps can still get higher than where we would like them on extended runs when it is hot outside.
If that doesn't have the desired effect then we are playing around with the idea of trying to direct the air out DTM style
