Federation Orange is the best colour

[djerickd]

 

[Snicklefritz]

My build in its current form…

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That hood, where does water run off to?

 

[Monarch_GTS]

That hood, where does water run off to?

Water gets into the engine bay at times… but thats not a bad thing. People have the misconception that its bad.. but it isnt.

All of the electrical components under the hood of any modern car are all weatherized (AKA; designed to be protected from exposed environmental factors) like changes in temperature, moisture, humidity, etc. and that includes rain and splash water. Obviously, you don't want to submerge any electrical components, but i regularly power wash my engine bay with water to keep it clean, and I have done that with all my vehicles since the late 90’s.

The “myth” about keeping your engine bay “dry” died with carburetors and distributor caps/rotors. In the old days, yes, getting water in your distributor cap could cause misfires or a no-start condition.

However, modern electronic ignition and ECU control does not have these issues.

As long as everything is in good working order under your hood, nothing bad would happen by pressure washing it out, and in over 26 years of doing that; I have never had a single issue.

The advantage of the vents in the hood is heat exhaustion from the engine bay.

The air passing over the vents is a lower psi simply based on the speed at which that air is flowing (exp, @55mph), and the air in the engine bay is traveling much slower and its hotter from the engine heat.

The low psi air is the colder/faster moving air going over the hood, and the high psi air is the hot/slow air in the engine bay. This convergence of the low and high psi air volumes creates a vacuum effect, sucking the hot air out of the engine bay, through those vents, and therefore pulling into the engine bay cooler air from near the ground.

A cooler engine bay is always better, add on top of that the well know dependance that Korean cars fuel maps have on air temperature, that all = safer for the engine and more HP.


Disclaimer: you never want to submerge your engines’ air intake in water, either, obviously…

 

[Snicklefritz]

^^^Well, I'll be swizzled. You've convinced me in one post. I am a believer. Congratulations. You should do a writeup for the seller of that aftermarket hood, they'll probably sell more of them. Ima sure most people, like I have been, are more than a little bit leery of getting any wet inside their engineroom.

 

[Transmetal]

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I thought about pulling the trigger on this, it's got about 10k less miles than my car but my car is just about paid off and it's not really much of an upgrade 2019 compared to my 2020. I know it has the full rwd mode, not that I would use it that often, I guess I could swap my current tails over and I'd finally have the sunroof I wanted. Don't really like the steering wheel though as alcantara is not a durable material long term but I suppose I could swap that out too. I'm not familiar with the gts model, what else does it have besides the carbon fiber interior/exterior bits over say a regular gt1/gt2? I thought it was an option on the base gt package?

This car, like mine (that I swapped in) has the upgraded 8" gt1/gt2 screen, the larger screen in the gauge cluster and what looks like a 15 speaker stereo. Maybe the gts is an add on to the gt1 package? I'm sure you guys can clarify things for me.

 

[clemson85]

GTS is an odd ball on the features but it has the ones I wanted.

Black leather seats all power, Big Screen, HK 15 speaker stereo, Sunroof, LSD, Exterior Carbon fiber bits, Alcantara Steering wheel console lid and roof headliner. Does not have the fancy auto cruise control or emergency braking, just heated seats not cooled. I live in a warm area so I wanted rear wheel drive. I have about the same miles as the one on Autotrader. I love the orange. Get compliments still like I did when it was new.

 

[Grump]

Couldn't think of a better thread for this

 

[Transmetal]

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You in Canada? I live in MN and I'd heard that the northern lights were gonna be visible.

 

[Grump]

You in Canada? I live in MN and I'd heard that the northern lights were gonna be visible.

Yeah southern Ontario. Second light show this year. I was mad at myself for not doing this the first time, glad to get a second chance.

 

[djerickd]

 

[Snicklefritz]

Is "Peaches" the name of your Stinger?

 

[Grump]

Sick. What are those yellow inserts in the front air dams?

 

[Alpinesting]

Our friends from the great white north call it Neon Orange. Either way it still looks good in our garage.