I've been thinking about using the fog light holes for cold air induction.
you could rig up some tubes and install some steel mesh using the lower molding grooves as a guide. then widen the holes under the vents in the hood and put some more mesh in place of the louvers to carry on the look. what do you think?

 

functionaly i love it. i would not do it on my car because i like the stock look, but your ride is your ride. if you think it looks good do it. your car looks realy nice BTW. always been a fan of that color combo.

 

I agree about the stock look, I was just dreaming. If I had an extra project car maby, it would be nice to get a t/a breathing right. I've been doing searches about making the hood vents functional but it looks like more trouble than its worth.

 

I know a guy who ran a dryer hose to a fog light on the bottom of his front fascia (import car) and it worked well until he hit his first puddle during a rain storm, the intake sucked a bunch of water into his engine.

 

i say no because you get enough cold air from your air dam and the dryer hose/mesh over everything is cheap looking unless done really well...i highly agree about proper air flow...the hood ive designed similar to the japanese camaro hood...utilizes airflow in every way possible to keep my engine as cool as can be...

if you can picture the flow
basically cold air rushes up from the air dam through the radiator...being pulled by the 3,000 cfm fan...hits the front of the engine and rises up and out through the heat extractor...while more cold air sifts in through the two air inlets flowing over the heads and back of the engine to exit via the cowl

i cant wait to find out just how well it works

cooler engine = longer life and more power

 

Let me be one to say, that I have done the fog light / HVAC ducting as a type of "ram air", and I like it. I have done it in a way that you cannot see it unless you look under the car, or have the intake off the car. Very discreet, and very nice for pulling at higher RPMs.

If you can do it in a way that you can cover it up, or make it look factory, I say go for it.

And as far as the mesh hood louvers go, I love the look of it. Kinda goes hand in hand with the new GTO look. That shape also compliments the headlights nicely. Just make sure that if you do it, take lots of pictures for anyone that might want to convert to that idea. I'd also like to see how it comes out

 

so you left the lights in and just ran some tube down there? got any pics, maby a tech article?

 

talking about cold air induction, or rad flow air? I'm thinking intake for the motor, so that leaves the air dam out of the discussion...

I think that's a sexy setup. Photoshop? Nice job. Also, nice car. I think it'd look very good, and could be quite functional. Remember, if you want to keep your engine bay cooler, (and not purely to plumb into the induction system), you need air intake, and air exhaust. You have that in the quarter panel, but is it possible to add more? perhaps...

 

are those quarter panel vents functional?
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on the 82-83 t/a were the front grilles functional? if so were there ducts going to them?

 

yea, the quarter panel vents let hot air pass out back of the engine bay. At least that's the idea, can't say I've held my hand over them to check, while driving down the road

Yea, the front grills were fuctional, they are right in front of the rad no ducting necessary...

 

No, I took the fog lights out. No pics, but if you check out the tech section of this website, on the homepage, there are a few writeups with pictures on how to do this.

Basically, all I did was got one peice of expandable 8"diameter HVAC aluminum ducting (about 8$ at home depot), and cut two sections out.

I attached one end to the fog light housing (which is where the air comes in), and turned one end up about 90 degrees to meet with the air intake box. Theres two fog light housings and two intake boxes, so you use one section for each. Once you are in there, you can get a good idea. A good deal of plastic had to be cut out that was part of the airbox underneath where the filters work, but it really serves no purpose. I would go out on a limb to say that there could be a gain of 10hp max with this mod, depending on how your intake flows as is, and what type of filters you have to maximize that power. For a DIY project, I could really feel it in the seat of my pants once you get past 4000rpms. No more brick wall where it used to be, you know?

But since you have a T/A so I am not sure how your intake system works. Don't know if you will be able to utilize the fog lights the way I did. But it is basically up to innovation. If you can find a way to get ducting from that fog light to your intake, then you've completed your mission. There's no "right" way to do it, as long as it looks good to you, works the way you want it to, and doesn't mess anything else in your car up.

Just don't drive through any really really deep puddles though. I hit one and kind of shreiked, but nothing happened...guess I got lucky. But the beauty of the HVAC ducting is that it's baffled so-to-speak, which will trap alot of water before it gets to the intake itself.

 

The front fender vents on TAs are purely cosmetic. Stock, there is absolutely NO way hot underhood air can get out of those.

Like the stock hood vents & louvers....100% cosmetic.