Recently I have been looking into hood louvers to help vent some hot air. I have also been toying with the idea of using louvers backwards near my CAI box...not a good idea. However, I didn't give up on my dream...I am thinking about using a warrior cowl cover (Warrior Products 923PC - Warrior Products Outer Cowl Covers for 07-13 Jeep® Wrangler & Wrangler Unlimited JK - Quadratec) and cutting it in a square (leaving about a 1" thick frame). Then cutting a hole in the hood near the airbox and placing the chopped up cowl cover over the hole. Of course I would put some sort of grill in the hole. Any Ideas, is this just too crazy? I know allowing cold outside air into the air box can really help performance. Thoughts, comments, and witty insults welcome...

 

how would you filter the rain water getting to your intake?

 

I've built a few high hp cars. This would do u no good on the jeep. The hp tq gain would not be noticeable. A cai gains maybe 3 hp.

 

yea, don't do that. It will have nothing to prevent water from pouring directly into your intake.

 

Remember it only takes a couple tablespoons of water to completely destroy an engine! This mod would allow buckets of it! Just word to the wise.

 

I've considered a mod like this also... but with some sort of cap or cover that can be closed when its raining. I've even thought about a servo arm from an r/c car to electronically open and close the vent. Or a cable system to manually open and close. Just like a remote exhaust cutout.

Saw pics on here of a black JK with a windshield sticker " NOT NORMAL" it lives up to that statement. He has an old school dome cover style air breather vent on his hood, right over the air box... the type you see on military vehicles.

 

I guess it wasnt here that i saw these pics.. Juju sent these screenshots:

 

I've seen intakes on to of the hoods of vehicles before. I had a shaker scoop on to of my 1977 TA. How do they keep the water out of the intake?

 

Scoops like this face backwards, not forwards.

I'd not do it.

 

He's right I made a ram air intake for a 4cyl Ford Ranger when I was a teenager.... I made the intake perfectly but it didn't do DIDDLY SQUAT! LOL