Functional hood scoop, anyone?

Hey everyone, new on TW. I have a 2009 4 door Pre-Runner and keep staring at the ugly plastic non-functional hood scoop. It was a lot easier to poke a hole in my 78 Trans-Am's 6.6L shaker, but this thing? Anyone ever fabed anything for it? Liking this site very much.

 

Waste of time IMO, do the fog light mod with drier duct instead.

 

It has no use, one person tried to craft a thing that sat overtop of his CAI to funnel air to it but it just soaked in water.

 

Welcome from N.J.

 

If you find it so ugly, swap it with another member here. There is no shortage of people looking for the scooped hood.

 

fabbed


and swap hoods with somebody local , problem solved

 

thank you everyone for all the responses.

 

Intake or exhaust?

Air blowing in would cool exactly what?

Air blowing out, yes... will reduce pressure behind the radiator and provide another 20 or 30cfm through the core.... and deposit dirt on the hood

 

Member jberry has a functional hood scoop mod you might want to check out:

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/1s...inale-jberry-vs-boxrocket-11.html#post5646511

 

LOL!

It actually hurt cooling because it increased pressure behind the radiator.

Some of the Duramax guys that do a lot of heavy towing go absolutely nuts in mounting seals around the radiator support to make sure that no air bypasses the core... then rig assemblies to evacuate air from behind the radiator!

But they are generating heat from 3 sources. The Diesel engine itself runs pretty cool, but under high loads it'll build a fair amount of heat, add to that the AC condensor, and the intercooler.... and the Duramax has an intercooler that's as large as a radiator!

 

Now back on that C++ quadratic derivative.....

 

That's some funny shit!

 

I'm not an engineer.
I'm an electrician, and recently promoted to traffic signal operations specialist (timing signals, coordinating traffic flow)