Do you daily drive your car? How do you deal with rain and car washs?

My engine bay heats up quickly especially when idling so I need to vent.

 

Hey Sam I did dd drive mine rain snow what not, but car washed
Hope you mean by hand,

 

Yeah by hand of course. I'm just worried of water getting into the engine bay.

 

Better be by hand LOL, yea the water in the engine bay sux but you need it especially if FI my hood is a " one off" so I don't have a lot of big vents I try to spay away from the vent holes an usually pop the hood after and wipe down what I can .

 

Why not some kind of setup where you can close the vents before a car wash. I'm sure carbon signal can design it

 

I was actually thinking of a design where you would have a lever inside the car that can open and close the vents just like an exhaust valve.

 

I like idea Sam. I've been debating going with a vented hood (mostly for looks) but the idea of water getting in the bay has been a turn off. If you came up with something carbon signal could mass produce, I'd be in.

 

Would be better if you could attach a solenoid and some wiring to your dash. Varex has a muffler that opens and closes like that, something inspired like that would work.

 

Boss mustangs had a functional flap that was activated via a **** inside, probably wouldn't be hard to wire up, but most things are waterproof under your hood anyway. Another option might be fitting a prefilter to the scoop/vent, companies sell relatively inexpensive prefilter material that is hydrophobic.

 

Hmmm.. I like the idea of a "hydro-phobic" filter. As you said everything is mostly covered. I'm just concerned with sensors and a few wires here and there in my engine bay.

 

It's trickle down military tech iirc. I run one on my 4x4 because I don't trust performance filters in the environment. Found it on eBay Rediculously cheap from a brand that had been tested.