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I dont but if I had to guess, they look like Bushwacker flat flares

resharp001

From that picture above, they look like Bushwackers.

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Hope everyone has a good weekend

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Holiday shopping season officially kicks off in a week. What is on everyone's wish list?

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We would like to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving!

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It may be cold out but its still hot in your engine bay. Let some heat out! (yes cornyest thing I could think of)

Amwill

I subscribe that TOTL hood has an impressive, aggressive and futuristic design that sets it apart from any other hood on the market. I also understand, from posts I've read here and on other forums,that it efficiently drives water away from the engine and keeps your engine bay cooler than a stock hood would but how much cooler ?
I have a Ripp SC in my future plans and heat expulsion is quite a concern. Before I knew the existence of TOTL hood (I am in Europe, you can forgive my ignorance) my only option was the AEV hood, either because I have AEV bumbers/tirecarrier/fuel caddy and, especially, because I trust the AEV experience with their hemi conversions.
Now, leaving the weight issue aside (a few pounds less or more wouldn't make any difference on my 3.8 jku) as well as any other aspects (style, ease of painting etc.), which hood is more efficient at removing heat from engine bay ? Has somebody ever tried to measure the heat inside engine bay with a stock hood, vs a AEV, vs a TOTL ?
Thanks in advance for answer.

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The stock hood is obviously your worse option. It doesnt have any vents and is insulated leaving no room for heat to escape. We dont have any metrics on how well the AEV hood performs but the issue with their design is that the vents are all located towards the front of the hood. This is adequate a slow speeds where hot air coming off of the radiator can potentially exit but it does nothing to address heat radiating off of the engine. Furthermore, once traveling at speed, there is enough air flow in the engine bay to push all the heat towards the back away from those vents.

We address those issues with our two stage design. The vents on the side of the hood allow heat to exit the engine bay when traveling at speed and the vents along the cowl allow all the hot air to escape at slower speeds. We had a customer with an LS swap report a 20 degree drop in intake air temps when going from a stock hood to one of ours.

Seizer

I'd be more than happy to trial your hood for you guys, to give you concrete number differences.
I've been logging for several months now with my Blue Driver coolant temperature, engine intake temperature, ambient temperature and vehicle speed for data point correlation. I can easily take this data and insert it into a Microsoft table and graph it. Which I intend do at some time. My reason for doing this is to get a base line on my stock electric fan throughout the year with weather changes, because I intend to swap out the electric fan for the water pump mounted mechanical. Anyways your hood looks awesome and maybe someday I'll upgrade.