Someone on the list had a horror story about the PO of their car having cut
large holes behind the wheel wells for "cooling". Lots of little holes might
leave you with some of structural integrity that those panels give you. A
better choice is to do what Larry Paulick, Bob Palmer, and a few others have
done, and that is to make a vent from back there to a Cobra-style or Doane
Spencer style fender exit (below the fender script). There was even a LAT
option for some Cobra style vent grilles to put in there.
Theo
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From: CoolVT@aol.com [mailto:CoolVT@aol.com]
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 2:29 PM
To: tigers@autox.team.net
Subject: Cooling
Someone mentioned radiators and it made me think of something I saw a a
recent car show. A Studebaker Avanti with the hood up showed a series of
either 4, 5 or 6 (approx. 3/4" in size) holes punched in the wall between
the wheel well and the underhood area. They were on the driver's side of
the
car. They definitely looked factory. There was room for more holes on the
passenger side, and yet there were no holes punched there. It seemed
strange. If they were for cooling wouldn't 10 be better than five? I
wonder
if that factory was on to something. A possible option for Tigers? The
holes were high enough that I doubt much water could get sprayed in during
a
drive in the wet. Of course, maybe they were for carburation induction
rather than cooling. Mark L.
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