tconn

Cooling the turbo would be counter productive. Would slow turbo spool.

Davids hood mods are the best looking I've seen. It's what I'll be doing on mine.

Keithr726

I recently considered a 924 hood an chose against it as it requires adding hood shocks as the 924 used a different system. It does look good but I also do not like the idea of water dripping onto the headers or turbo/maf area.
Look here it has a nice write-up,
https://rennlist.com/forums/944-turb...opinion-2.html

As for the 968 mirrors, they are not too hard to install. Sunset porsche has the BEST price on a full kit. $300 I believe is what I paid a few months back. Follow this article when installing...
http://www.951motorsports.com/

Hope this helps

RolexNJ

I was hoping I could just bring the car to a quality body-shop, and have them cut it out and it would be pretty easy.

E, although it may not be functional at all, it is that look that I like in addition to the mirrors. Winslow's car was very sharp looking. Thanks for the pics and info. I think if I do this, it is going to be the same as Winslow's.

If anyone else has pics similar to the black car, please post them. And David, if you have some pics do the same. I can't recall what yours looks like but I think it is dual vented?

David Floyd

ehall

I'm not sure that I can agree, because I think we're talking about two different subjects.
To be more correct, the venting was used to cool the area, around the turbo, from which a lot of external heat is made. The turbo spool up wouldn't really be affected by that. The vent brings air into the area in an undirected, very general way. It really would only, perhaps, help to reduce heat soak of other components. It would take a heel of a lot of very narrowly focused air, to overcome the heat pouring through the crossover pipe and into the engine.
The idea worked really well for the LeMans cars, and that vent rammed area over both the turbo and the exhaust manifold.
In a street car, you're really only opening a hole to let radiant heat disipate, in city type driving.

ehall

Coll. If you search Horsepowerfarm, that was his name, though I'm not sure about how it was written, exactly, you should be able to find a post where he talks about where he got those mirrors. I remember the post, but it goes back to '03-ish.

333pg333

That's that vent from Carbontrix isn't it? I looked at that same one. I sort of wish there were nicer looking ones but as long as it does the job. Some underhood ducting will help a lot too.

333pg333

I liked those Naca vents too for their looks Rob, but I think they could be counter productive 99 times out of 100 on our cars. I'm sure Chris and the wind tunnel will come up with the correct and functional vents.

Darwantae951

Aribop had a 931 hood on his old 951 and it didn't interfere with his dynatech strut brace.

The hood on the car in this pic is the 931 hood. Also saw it in person when I drove thru ATL on my way home from Maryland. I asked him if it interfered and he said "No, and it provides GREAT cooling to the cruise control unit"

V2Rocket

how did you make those?

ehall

yep. That's a carbontrix piece. special tool used to have one to vent his IC. I don't know if he still does.

333pg333

I'm sorry but I had to laugh a bit there. I've never heard anyone suggest that their venting was helping out with their cruise control overheating. It just sounds funny to read it in this context.

333pg333

I wish there was some nicer looking and possibly more functional aftermarket parts available than this. Still, it should serve it's purpose.

ehall

aribop was being facetious when he made that statement, I feel certain.

Lorax

Yeah, the piece is fugly in conjunction with all the stuff on my car, but it's functional.