Footbox vent

PaulProe · #1 (**permalink**) 09-05-2006, 06:36 PM

Does anyone have any photo's of the footbox vents on an original Cobra - anything that is visible from the engine compartment.

There may be some in the postings but I don't know what I am looking for.

thanks

Paul

double ugly · #2 (**permalink**) 09-05-2006, 06:56 PM

Try http://www.csxinfo.net/cgi-bin/ikonb.../ikonboard.cgi

computerworks · #3 (**permalink**) 09-05-2006, 08:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PaulProe

Does anyone have any photo's of the footbox vents on an original Cobra - anything that is visible from the engine compartment.

...does this help?

Excaliber · #4 (**permalink**) 09-06-2006, 12:38 AM

Maybe it's just the 'hot', relatively speaking, climate I'm in but the foot box cool air thing doesn't work for me! I had in my Austin Healey 3000 and like my current replica the air coming into the footbox area is like a 'blast furnace'. The ducting gets WAY overheated from header and engine compartment temperature and the air gets hot enough to literally burn your feet. I not only leave the trap doors shut where the air enters the footbox I disconnected the ducting so there is no way any air can even get in there!

My guess would be the COMPETITION cars did not use this ducting?

ByronRACE · #5 (**permalink**) 09-21-2006, 09:07 PM

They should call them furnace doors.

If you really want cold air, use the brake duct vents in the nose; and lots of tubing.