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Did your friend manage to resolve the issue due to the CF hood??

nope... no luck

received in the UK the other week. Many thanks

still nothing

Still in custom or what? or the postman is also an owner of 6GC

still nothing and Culpable04 dont reply me

Just in the process of polishing it up to see what its like, if not will be going gun metal in colour.

Cheers guys

This post has been edited by petna: Jul 1, 2008 - 4:17 PM

ne more for sale and how much

+1 i still want 1

Vincent - I would like one also - do they come painted? (can they?)

Hey vince, any left, i have a buddy interested in one after he saw mine.

any left?

Hate to burst everyone's bubble this late in the game, but I hadn't seen this thread before.

This is a STRICTLY cosmetic part. See for yourselves:

There is a rubber seal on the underside of the hood. That seals the hood to the header panel. No air leakage there. So the part of the "cooling plate" that's in front of the header panel (around the latch) does absolutely nothing.

Any air that wants to avoid going through the radiator would have to go through the condenser first, then turn a sharp 90 degree up and escape through the small gap between the condenser and radiator. Then it would hit the underside of the hood and have to turn another 90 degrees through that small clearance. This is possible, depending on the local air pressures within the engine bay, but the airflow through that path AT BEST is very small. Air streams do not like turning 90 degrees repeatedly

If your car is running so hot that you need that tiny extra bit of cooling, you've got bigger problems. And as to the claim that it runs x degrees cooler, absolute BS. Your engine water temp is regulated by the thermostat. The radiator only needs to cool enough to keep the thermostat at the operating point. Any excess cooling capacity makes no difference.

http://www.carbing.co.jp/english/products/...ator/index.html

Radiator cooling plate is a device to direct air to flow efficiently from grille to the radiator for better cooling that is installed between front grille and the radiator top.
Air escapes from the top of radiator instead of going through radiator on most stock vehicles. Radiator cooling plate restricts escaping air by connecting top of the grille to the radiator.
This result more air to flow through radiator for more efficient cooling that prevent overheating. This Radiator cooling plate also works as good under the hood dress up item.

http://www.nipponpower.com/view.phtml?f_ca...r+Cooling+Plate
Cooling Plate prevents air to escape over the top of the radiator, while reducing coolant temperature during track runs and high speed driving.

This post has been edited by vincent_doggy: Oct 23, 2008 - 12:33 PM

So vincent, do you make any more of these? I swear you will get a butt load of buyers if you do.

Can't promise anything now, will keep u post thou

Vincent, nothing personal and I wish you the best of luck selling lots of goodies here.

BUT, let's not BS those who don't understand how stuff works.

I repeat, THIS IS A STRICTLY COSMETIC PART.

No amount of advertising hype will change the airflow IN A 6th GEN CELICA. If you wish to challenge what I said previously, please do it with facts, pictures, diagrams, anything you want. But NOT advertising hype from those who make these parts, unless they can provide proof.

The physics of the situation are pretty elementary and self-evident as I described.

For those still wanting cooling panels.. if none are available anymore from Vincent, check my topic on mirror polished cooling panels. Available from the UK via ebay. Only 40GBP + shipping.

If vincent can still do these then I can vouch for the quality

You sir are wrong. My coolant temp has dropped because of this cooling panel.

If you are not buying don't bash on his work.

Vincent has done more for this community than you in so many ways.

This post has been edited by 99GT: Oct 23, 2008 - 7:09 PM

input is always welcome on this site, but keep a line of respect to people, I would say that this is not a good way to introduce yourself here, you joined on Sept and already getting on the wrong side of people ?

a lot of people here will agree with you, for street driven cars this will be a cosmetic item, but who told you people don't want they engine bays to look better ? and yes there are benefits on having a cooling plate, the Celica 5th gen had one, the celica 4th gen had one, made out of plastic, companies like C-one Japan, varis, Cusco, and other reputable brands sell cooling plates for different cars as well, are you willing to argue with them also ?



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