[Fisher]

Following advice on another thread I'm going to be making a trip to Cool Louvres in Hampshire next week to get some bonnet louvres made to aid cooling of the engine bay.

The only decision I have to make is where I want them. The Mini on the enclosed pic has them both sides, however, so the vents on the right hand side don't interfere with the CAI sucking in cold air, I'm thinking of just having a set on the left so its sucks hot air away from the manifold area and the expelled hot air from the intercooler.

Not knowing much about this kind of thing I'd be interested to hear about where other people think I should place the louvres and why???

As some background, at Bedford Autodrome I'm seeing inlet temps of 51C and water temps of 93C when the ambient is 8C. I'm already talking to Paul at 1320 about charge coolers and a oil cooler will definitely be added shortly but the idea of bonnet louvres looks like a cost effective way to help in some small way the high temp situation as I don't believe from what I've heard that the upgrade to a GRS charge cooler will help that much on track over my current GRS set-up.

Hi,

I have goten a KMT water to air intercooler. After install I have removed the sponge on the plastic air diverter for intercooler.
After that I have removed the isolation on the bonet. For the final I have use the header wraps.

When I have open the bonnet on the original car the very hot air come out.
Now I must said it's much much better.

The heat goes throught the bonnet (no isolation), the air goes through the space under the bonnet and goes out where the header is. The header is isolate so here is less heat too.

Try, you will be happy with that setup.