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Old Sep 11, 2005 | 10:30 PM
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track car idea

just saw this and had a brain scramble

replace the passanger headlight fixture with this for a track car, thier is a piece of tube on the underside of the screen that and intake tube could attach to



i dont know the measurements of it or anything, but they sell this piece at home depot, its for gutters, and its like $10
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Old Sep 11, 2005 | 10:56 PM
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You mean basically use it as a vent for colder air for intake? I don't see why that would be a bad idea, not for a track car. Go for it and post pics.
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Old Sep 11, 2005 | 11:17 PM
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That would make for some rather interesting drag, and it'd also probably tear the metal apart.
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Old Sep 11, 2005 | 11:26 PM
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That would make for some rather interesting drag, and it'd also probably tear the metal apart.
it might work if you reinforced it some how. otherwise it would probably break off or appart around 50 or so
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Old Sep 11, 2005 | 11:52 PM
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oh yeah, it would get mad chewed apart, but i think if someone got it to work itd be pretty cool
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Old Sep 12, 2005 | 12:30 AM
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Is that a vent for a clothes dryer?
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Old Sep 12, 2005 | 12:37 AM
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quit hatin sonic....you know you like it!!!!
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Old Sep 12, 2005 | 01:19 AM
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Was a serious question! looks like an outdoor vent for a clothes dryer, which is why it's screened and has the rain gaurd on it.
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Old Sep 12, 2005 | 01:42 AM
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DOH!

but you know you like it!
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Old Sep 12, 2005 | 09:40 AM
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hahaha thats most definitly a clothes dryer vent.

reason i asked in the first place was cuz a guy (hand in the pic) put it under his maxima's front lip with a tube running to his intake, and i thought, hey, looks like an rx-7's headlight
oh well. not like ide try it, i enjoy being able to see at night thank you.
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Old Sep 12, 2005 | 03:51 PM
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Originally Posted by k-rok
just saw this and had a brain scramble

replace the passanger headlight fixture with this for a track car, thier is a piece of tube on the underside of the screen that and intake tube could attach to



i dont know the measurements of it or anything, but they sell this piece at home depot, its for gutters, and its like $10

I would think you'd have to replicated it out of thick aluminum sheeting/plate and then still have to cut a ~3" hole in the front engine bay wall for it to work.
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