Purpose Of A Roof Scoop

It cools off an appropriate spot when you start to get hot headed.

Purpose of a roof scoop. Just a quick video on how i installed my roof scoop and vent on my 2004 subaru sti thanks for watching. This is because there s a negative pressure created by the vacuum bubble behind the trunk. For rallying in those cars such as the wrc cars they perform a function but i don t know what. The only other reasons for a roof scoop are to cool rear mounted heat exchangers radiators or to provide intake air for a rear or mid mounted engine.

For a normal street car it s just gives it look to make it look more aggressive. I have no idea what good a roof scoop could do. On a rally race car a small roof scoop creates positive pressure in the cabin pushing dust out of window. Re read what i said its for the passenger area of the car.

So a car that has the engine in the front the purpose of the roof scoop is merely for looks. If the car was a rear engined air cooled engine car like an old vw bug it could be used to force cooling air over the motor. I explain the basics of how the airflow works around. Any dust floating around the cabin will seriously inpeed the driver s vision and make it much harder for the co d.

In almost every case a large naca duct will provide more than sufficient airflow without increasing drag raising the boundary air thickness or causing turbulent airflow. Anyone has idea. Hood scoops are for cooling the engine or engine components. What are roof scoops for.

Also on mid engined cars the roof scoop is the air intake. The main reason for having a roof scoop on a rally car is to actually pressurise the interior of the car slightly. You ve probably noticed that if your car windows are open fresh air gets sucked in. To flush out the.