Re: Hood scoop performance ..
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it was picking up SIGNIFICANTLY more air than the engine needed
That's what a supercharger does. Supercharger forces air into the intake, no amount of scoop is going to creat tangible boost in that way. Youre best bet is you're supplying ample air to the engine and not starving it. Not clear to me in the above example how we know the "Pop up" was from over pressure underneath vs a low pressure above the scoop sucking it up?
Because it occured at the CASS, which I believe was around 42 MPH. No chance, based on the shape of the car, there was enough negative pressure to break the scoop tie downs. A 5" WO67 scoop has a significantly more in^2 than even a pro stock hood. Sealing that scoop to the pan made no sense to me.
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Re: Hood scoop performance ..
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no amount of scoop is going to creat tangible boost in that way
200 mph = 2 psi boost
I saw no remark w/r/t the longer a car is at high speed, the smaller the intake needs to be. Those big scoops are needed for 0-100, not after.
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Re: Hood scoop performance ..
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I have seen a 68 SS/AH scoop that was narrowed and the bottom half of the opening was blocked off. I didn't talk to him about what he was going after and if it helped but I think he may have been asked not to bring it back.
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Re: Hood scoop performance ..
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no amount of scoop is going to creat tangible boost in that way
200 mph = 2 psi boost
I saw no remark w/r/t the longer a car is at high speed, the smaller the intake needs to be. Those big scoops are needed for 0-100, not after. Like I said, no scoop is going to create tangible boost like a blower. Per Warren Johnson: “If you plug in the numbers, you’ll find an increase in inlet air pressure of .142 psi at 90 miles-per-hour. Standard atmospheric pressure is 14.7 psi, so this represents an increase of just under 1 percent. If the air/fuel ratio is adjusted to compensate for the increased pressure, there should be a corresponding 1-percent increase in horsepower. For a 1,200-horsepower Pro Stock engine, that’s a gain of 12 horsepower. Hood scoop pressurization increases dramatically at faster speeds: It’s 2 percent at approximately 130 miles-per-hour, and 3 percent at 158 miles-per-hour. At the magical 200 mile-per-hour mark, the theoretical pressure increase is .704 psi, or 4.8 percent. That equals 56 “free” horsepower. “Unfortunately in racing, just as in life, there is no free lunch. The penalty you pay for this increase in inlet air pressure is the extra aerodynamic drag produced by the hood scoop. A hood scoop is inherently dirty in terms of its aerodynamics. You can minimize the penalty with proper radii and contours, but you can’t get rid of it. And because the scoop has to be large enough to enclose the carburetors and intake manifold, you don’t have much latitude to change its physical dimensions and frontal area. “From all of my calculations, it’s a wash between the increased horsepower from the ram effect and the higher aerodynamic drag produced by the hood scoop. In other words, though we gain horsepower from the increased inlet pressure, we have to use all of that power just to push the hood scoop through the air.”
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Re: Hood scoop performance ..
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no amount of scoop is going to creat tangible boost in that way
200 mph = 2 psi boost
I saw no remark w/r/t the longer a car is at high speed, the smaller the intake needs to be. Those big scoops are needed for 0-100, not after. Like I said, no scoop is going to create tangible boost like a blower. Per Warren Johnson: “If you plug in the numbers, you’ll find an increase in inlet air pressure of .142 psi at 90 miles-per-hour. Standard atmospheric pressure is 14.7 psi, so this represents an increase of just under 1 percent. If the air/fuel ratio is adjusted to compensate for the increased pressure, there should be a corresponding 1-percent increase in horsepower. For a 1,200-horsepower Pro Stock engine, that’s a gain of 12 horsepower. Hood scoop pressurization increases dramatically at faster speeds: It’s 2 percent at approximately 130 miles-per-hour, and 3 percent at 158 miles-per-hour. At the magical 200 mile-per-hour mark, the theoretical pressure increase is .704 psi, or 4.8 percent. That equals 56 “free” horsepower. “Unfortunately in racing, just as in life, there is no free lunch. The penalty you pay for this increase in inlet air pressure is the extra aerodynamic drag produced by the hood scoop. A hood scoop is inherently dirty in terms of its aerodynamics. You can minimize the penalty with proper radii and contours, but you can’t get rid of it. And because the scoop has to be large enough to enclose the carburetors and intake manifold, you don’t have much latitude to change its physical dimensions and frontal area. “From all of my calculations, it’s a wash between the increased horsepower from the ram effect and the higher aerodynamic drag produced by the hood scoop. In other words, though we gain horsepower from the increased inlet pressure, we have to use all of that power just to push the hood scoop through the air.” And sadly for WJ, his performance calculations didn’t equate to real life MPH gains. Still today, the MPH is not where it should be for a Pro Stock car factoring in the average gains across the last decade before the scoops were eliminated. Plus, the cars look stupid with that flat hood, and since they aren’t any faster, bring back the hood scoop AND carbs.
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Re: Hood scoop performance ..
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And sadly for WJ, his performance calculations didn’t equate to real life MPH gains. Still today, the MPH is not where it should be for a Pro Stock car factoring in the average gains across the last decade before the scoops were eliminated. Plus, the cars look stupid with that flat hood, and since they aren’t any faster, bring back the hood scoop AND carbs.
That's probably a sign the decade before the switch was focused on things not induction related but rather ring packs, suspension, and transmissions. I'd imagine those items are all but optimized at this point. I get their reasons for the switch, those same reasons don't seem consistent with the rest of their program though. However that's another thread for another day.
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Re: Hood scoop performance ..
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Easy enough to put a pressure sensor in the scoop.
On just about anything carbureted, the carbs will be thru the hood. Something has to cover them. Why not make it a sealed scoop which will (should) improve performance. If the cowl rear opening type of scoop was effective, I'm sure they would have been in use by the people who had the budget to test such things..
Attention needs to be paid to internal construction to make sure it is pressurized with a minimum of turbulence.
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On the 1965 Hemi Belvedere with a factory scoop it picked up two MPH placing the factory plate on the carbs sealing the carbs to the hood on the first pass with the plate. I know in 1972 John Petrie decided to copy his 65 car and put a cookie pan on his doms on the1972 Cuda and it picked up a few MPH and some ET. Next time out most people in Pro Stock started to copy him. The scoop was a Shoe box type old pro stock scoop. I would say some work and some do not. You have to experiment to see why some things work and some things do not.
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Re: Hood scoop performance ..
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Not clear to me in the above example how we know the "Pop up" was from over pressure underneath vs a low pressure above the scoop sucking it up?
Because it occured at the CASS, which I believe was around 42 MPH. No chance, based on the shape of the car, there was enough negative pressure to break the scoop tie downs. A 5" WO67 scoop has a significantly more in^2 than even a pro stock hood. Sealing that scoop to the pan made no sense to me. The "CASS" reference is unclear to me also, and so you stating there was not enough low pressure above the hood/scoop to suck it upwards, but there was enough high pressure air inside the scoop to lift the hood up, the latter which I find nearly unbelievable.
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Re: Hood scoop performance ..
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I saw almost a tenth in the quarter mile on my high ten second big block Dart, 68 Hemi Dart scoop.....not sealed vs sealed....back to back passes....When I was engineering the seal set up for that scoop, my buddy assured me that I was wasting my time...He ate crow when it worked......Your results may vary....Test, Test, Test
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My 64 Maxwedge ran almost the same with a stock hood as with a sealed Six Pac type. Don’t know why they worked but the rage at that time (70s) where newspaper boxes. They just worked, especially on tunnel rams, just cut carb holes and and long rod to hold them on. Prerunner to the Jimmy Durante nose.
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My 64 Maxwedge ran almost the same with a stock hood as with a sealed Six Pac type. Don’t know why they worked but the rage at that time (70s) where newspaper boxes. They just worked, especially on tunnel rams, just cut carb holes and and long rod to hold them on. Prerunner to the Jimmy Durante nose. They were simple with a minimum of fabrication, they were sealed and they were free.
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Re: Hood scoop performance ..
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Not clear to me in the above example how we know the "Pop up" was from over pressure underneath vs a low pressure above the scoop sucking it up?
Because it occured at the CASS, which I believe was around 42 MPH. No chance, based on the shape of the car, there was enough negative pressure to break the scoop tie downs. A 5" WO67 scoop has a significantly more in^2 than even a pro stock hood. Sealing that scoop to the pan made no sense to me. The "CASS" reference is unclear to me also, and so you stating there was not enough low pressure above the hood/scoop to suck it upwards, but there was enough high pressure air inside the scoop to lift the hood up, the latter which I find nearly unbelievable. Losing a scoop and a hood on two separate occasions renders it the opposite of unbelievable. Do the math, per the article, the scoop was too large and my car picked up without the carb sealed to the hood because the excess air captured by the scoop could escape instead of cause aerodynamic drag. I'm not telling anyone what scoop to run, I'm sharing my experience. That car won the 2017 TriState Stock/Superstock championship without a carb pan, along with a bunch of Mopar event wins. It worked.
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About 60% more, varies roughly by the cube of the speed.
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Re: Hood scoop performance ..
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I have a couple cars that picked up 1 tenth in the 1/8 and 1.5 tenths in the 1/4 making an air pan and sealing it to the 440 six pack hood.
They run 10.50-11.20 range.
Definitely worth the effort.
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Re: Hood scoop performance ..
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My 64 Maxwedge ran almost the same with a stock hood as with a sealed Six Pac type. Don’t know why they worked but the rage at that time (70s) where newspaper boxes. They just worked, especially on tunnel rams, just cut carb holes and and long rod to hold them on. Prerunner to the Jimmy Durante nose. I still use a paper box.
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