Long time no mods.
Somewhat inspired by Piwoslaw's postings on his '
walls of seperation' between the radiator, intercooler and the intake, I've decided to look at this area on Helga. In fact this is an inspired by what PW thought I had done and which had inspired him to do a mod idea and which has in turn inspired me - if you know what I mean.
What I am trying to do is to allow cold air to the intake but keep the upper grill blocked - Diesels like a warm engine but cold intake. This is the area behind the upper grill.
The slot to the upper, right is the air intake. This is my grill blocked.
So the air intake is now being fed by whatever comes up from below as my lower grill is not (yet) blocked. This is the view straight down, as you can see this is the full height of the radiator.
The silver bit at the bottom is actually the bottom of the front panel / bumper which extends quite a long way back from the factory, it actually goes underneath the radiator so any warm air at the front will go straight up. My intercooler is in a front wheel well so there is no heat coming in from that.
My plan is to seperate this area from the intake with a shelf or block of some kind, as shown in red here.
And I will combine this with some small holes drilled into the grill block just where the intake is. The holes should be small enough not to effect any aero there
but should allow cooller air into this upper area and therefore into the intake - it will be a little like a shower nozzle of air.
Thoughts and comments welcome.
