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Just an idea. How about an inducted scoop? The opening would face rearward. By virtue of the car's motion, air would be extracted from the scoop.
That's assuming the intake for the air isn't at a lower pressure than what is created by the reversed scoop. Isn't the area beneath the car lower pressure than surrounding areas typically?
 
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That's assuming the intake for the air isn't at a lower pressure than what is created by the reversed scoop. Isn't the area beneath the car lower pressure than surrounding areas typically?

The area under the car is already moving in that direction. Increase the surface area over a simple air-foil and you force the speed of the air to increase to cover that surface. It creates a low pressure area under the car that will give up air flow. That low pressure area will not be NEAR as low as the area around that inducted scoop. If molded into the body surface, the body itself becomes the air-foil.

I'm trying to put up a small diagram that I just made but file upload is not cooperating for some reason.

Lemme look into that and I'll try later to post the pic.
 
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Ok rocket scientists, all of this talk about high pressure/low pressure, air foils and high and low drag would be relevant, if the scoop needed to be backwards.

Fact is I need air to be forced in there, not extracted. The pass through air exits under the car in the rear end tunnel.
 
Ok rocket scientists, all of this talk about high pressure/low pressure, air foils and high and low drag would be relevant, if the scoop needed to be backwards.

Fact is I need air to be forced in there, not extracted. The pass through air exits under the car in the rear end tunnel.

And you have fans to help the air through, correct? If I had your fab skills, I would put some small square scoops on the outside , versus screens or whatever covers you are thinking. That would look pretty bad ass, and even more out of the normal for a Fairmont. Seems like they would fit just right down there.
 
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And you have fans to help the air through, correct? If I had your fab skills, I would put some small square scoops on the outside , versus screens or whatever covers you are thinking. That would look pretty bad ass, and even more out of the normal for a Fairmont. Seems like they would fit just right down there.

That's the direction I'l leaning Nick, I gotta figure the area of a 6" hole, and convert that to a H x W measurement to see how far that thing will hang off the quarter. The fans are drawing through the holes, and dumping the exhaust out on top of the rear end.
 
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The area under the car is already moving in that direction. Increase the surface area over a simple air-foil and you force the speed of the air to increase to cover that surface. It creates a low pressure area under the car that will give up air flow. That low pressure area will not be NEAR as low as the area around that inducted scoop. If molded into the body surface, the body itself becomes the air-foil.

I'm trying to put up a small diagram that I just made but file upload is not cooperating for some reason.

Lemme look into that and I'll try later to post the pic.
Werd. I got ya
 
Ok, systems.

Did the IC water reservoir/pump mount today.
That entailed finding a sufficient round mount to hold the body of the Bosch 03 Cobra pump I'm using to move water between the IC, and the radiators.
Awhile back I snagged one of these BBC aluminum con rods that my friend had used up in his drag car. Once aluminum rods reach a certain number of passes in a drag car, they become "work hardened" and are subject to breakage. For my purpose the one I snagged worked perfectly.
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What looks like some sort of bizzaro catyclismic engine failure, is actually the end result of me cutting the small end off of a BBC alum rod, then drilling, and tapping it to act as a mount stalk for the Bosch pump. Two 1/4" studs sticking through the floor, nutted on the bottom do nicely to hold the Cobra IC pump 3.750" in the air.
The water reservoir is a chinese 2.5 gal aluminum tank, that I made these rectangular stands to elevate it high enough to match up with the input of the Cobra pump.
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That pump feeds water to these two radiators before going to the IC, then back again to the reservoir.
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Pics aren't that great, it was getting late, and the sun was phucking with me. So I took these few shots for todays' update.
 
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The area under the car is already moving in that direction. Increase the surface area over a simple air-foil and you force the speed of the air to increase to cover that surface. It creates a low pressure area under the car that will give up air flow. That low pressure area will not be NEAR as low as the area around that inducted scoop. If molded into the body surface, the body itself becomes the air-foil.

I'm trying to put up a small diagram that I just made but file upload is not cooperating for some reason.

Lemme look into that and I'll try later to post the pic.
Need some sort of tech guy to help you upload a pic? .....some noobz around here..... I'll tell ya
 
Agreed! This is probably my favorite part of the build, hands down!!

Wha???? All I gotta do is cut the top off of a BBC Chevy rod, and jam a Bosch pump in it to entertain you?:shrug:

And here I thought I had to Sleeve a 6 banger block, cut the side out of it, glue a piece of plate down the side, source a solid roller cam from Australia, modify said roller cam to accept a SBF cam gear, find a double roller timing chain one link shorter than the chain that came w/ the SBF set, (out of a 68 Toyota Corolla no less) Modify the crank to allow me to use a SBF harmonic balancer, fill an Australian head w/ combinations of SBC, and BBC valves, springs, and rockers, Make the intake manifold, make the exhaust manifold, make the valve cover, make the hot side, make the cold side, and paint all that junk ORANGE to get you to notice.;)

Stupid me.

Next time I'm just gonna build an LS.

Scratch that,.....there ain't gonna be a next time.
 
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All I gotta do is cut the top off of a BBC Chevy rod, and jam a Bosch pump in it to entertain you?:shrug:
Yep! That's all you needed to do.
Project over, move on the the next one or quit while you are ahead... That is by far the most entertaining use of an aluminum rod I have ever seen and there is just no 6 banger that will ever top it! ;)
 
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Wha???? All I gotta do is cut the top off of a BBC Chevy rod, and jam a Bosch pump in it to entertain you?:shrug:

And here I thought I had to Sleeve a 6 banger block, cut the side out of it, glue a piece of plate down the side, source a solid roller cam from Australia, modify said roller cam to accept a SBF cam gear, find a double roller timing chain one link shorter than the chain that came w/ the SBF set, (out of a 68 Toyota Corolla no less) Modify the crank to allow me to use a SBF harmonic balancer, fill an Australian head w/ combinations of SBC, and BBC valves, springs, and rockers, Make the intake manifold, make the exhaust manifold, make the valve cover, make the hot side, make the cold side, and paint all that junk ORANGE to get you to notice.;)

Stupid me.

Next time I'm just gonna build an LS.

Scratch that,.....there ain't gonna be a next time.
Awsome ;)
 
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