Purpose Of A Roof Scoop

What are roof scoops for.

Purpose of a roof scoop.

It cools off an appropriate spot when you start to get hot headed. Re read what i said its for the passenger area of the car. The main reason for having a roof scoop on a rally car is to actually pressurise the interior of the car slightly. This is because there s a negative pressure created by the vacuum bubble behind the trunk.

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. To flush out the. I explain the basics of how the airflow works around. 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.

Any dust floating around the cabin will seriously inpeed the driver s vision and make it much harder for the co d. For rallying in those cars such as the wrc cars they perform a function but i don t know what. I have no idea what good a roof scoop could do. For a normal street car it s just gives it look to make it look more aggressive.

This small increase in pressure works wonders to keep out dust and sand from the rally stage. Just a quick video on how i installed my roof scoop and vent on my 2004 subaru sti thanks for watching. Anyone has idea. Also on mid engined cars the roof scoop is the air intake.

On a rally race car a small roof scoop creates positive pressure in the cabin pushing dust out of window. You ve probably noticed that if your car windows are open fresh air gets sucked in. Deep 6 rally team merch and also random car sticker. 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.