Anybody with cowl hood?

DavesXJ · 12-07-2003, 03:03 PM

I've found a manufacturer for steel cowl hoods and I'm considering installing one. I'm just curious if they are worth the effort to evacuate heat out of engine compartment. It's a 2 inch rise and I think it looks good.

Any comments are very welcome.

Dave

Manufacturer:
http://www.prestigious1.com/Cowl%20Induction%20Hoods%201.htm

Picture:

hjeepxj · 12-07-2003, 03:12 PM

Ive only ever seen 3 on XJs, one is on Aaron's XJ http://genxj.com and the other was on a silver rig, and one on an ebay rig.

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Meerkat · 12-07-2003, 03:15 PM

Dave.
That is really good looking alright. However, in my experience, the cowl is used for air intake, not heat evacuation. I don't know how hard (or rewarding) it would be to connect your breather up to the cowl, and for heat evacuation, just get a good hood from the bone-yard and cut louvres into the surface of it.

DavesXJ · 12-07-2003, 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by wvd

Dave.
That is really good looking alright. However, in my experience, the cowl is used for air intake, not heat evacuation. I don't know how hard (or rewarding) it would be to connect your breather up to the cowl, and for heat evacuation, just get a good hood from the bone-yard and cut louvres into the surface of it.

Hmmm, true dat. I realllllly like the cowl hood. I checked out the other one posted above and it looks good, too. It'll all depend on the budget and budget master (wife) next year.

jdogg4 · 12-07-2003, 09:10 PM

I like the look of that very clean. I don't see why you also couldn't user that hood with a vent system on it aswell. I think that would work and look just fine.

**MSHarnett** · 12-08-2003, 06:28 AM

That hood does look nice

, but like said earlier, a cowl is for air induction. To evac air, I recommend buying hood vents. Eric sold a bunch of us those Lebaron Turbo vents that should work really well.

**LOCKED UP** · 12-08-2003, 10:07 AM

LeBaron vents

It's a little messy from the cutting but cleaned up just fine.

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