would my turbo 4runner benefit from these ??? any thoughts ? any one running these ???

 

I have read a few things on the net talking about their effectiveness. however, I don't think it would look very good on the truck.

 

overall, you probably wouldn't see much of a benefit. You'd get more from an intercooler than louvres on the hood.

 

I know a intercooler would be ideal. Ive read mixed reviews about the louvers some say the heat pours out, some say not so much. any more feed back would be appreciated

 

The only thing I can think of with regards to louvres would be in a situation where you are in a slow crawl at higher RPMs. What I mean is this... a bunch if the guys I ran with running Scouts would louvre the hood over the exhaust manifolds so that massive amounts of heat would exit the engine compartment when they were rock crawling. I think for you an intercooler would be help more.

 

Before you do it try taking off the hood and driving it with no hood at all. If no hood doesn't float your boat then you may be disappointed with louvers.

 

Mine work great!

 

[QUOTE=BigBluePile;51101666]Mine work great!

Do you notice a Difference. What do you mean by mine work great ???

 

When I can see the heat pouring out of the drivers side vent(which makes sence, that's the side the headers on) and being pushed out by my flex-a-lite fan, I'd say it's working.

 

id say a intercooler too since hot air don't make power

 

See, this is the kind of info that makes me want to go ahead and try this. I know its not going to make my truck run cooler but it may help my engine to last a little longer

 

I tell you what, those louvers(which are the these ones: http://www.raceace.com/index.html) probably don't do squat on the highway but when your goin' low and slow in the muck and the mess they probably help out a lot.

Oh yeah, and when something smoke checks itself under the hood...out the vents it goes!

 

lol, smoke check?

The second motor I put in my old Isuzu... I let all the smoke out of it, and later found that cause a HG to blow and a rod to bend

 

lol! Yeah, my idler pulley on the power steering belt locked up on the interstate at about 75 mph and THAT was a nice ball of smoke that burped out of my louvers!!!!

 

does anyone know where to find this hood with scoop?

 

Hmmmmm, looks custom

 

yeah, IIRC, there was a thread a while back of a guy that modded a Mustang hood or something onto his stock hood

I don't think I've ever seen a bolt-on hood with a scoop for the 1st gen Runners or 2nd gen Pickups



you know what would be really cool though?

an old Dodge Dart style scoop

 

ive always preffered cowls. because the hood bulges up in the middle, you can cut and bend up a section of the back and put a honeycomb mesh over it for the air to escape. I have though of rigging my air filter to pull air out of a home made cowl, but i guess it would work for one of those too.

 

WRX scoop. FTW. Keep it JDM!

 

I've got em on my 87 runner, I'm in Tucson so it gets hot! I can see heat pouring out of those things with the motor off in parking lots. After long drives you they are too hot to touch. My engine temp was basically unaffected but I know my underhood componants are lovin them.