Purpose Of A Roof Scoop

Anyone has idea.

Purpose of a roof scoop.

Also on mid engined cars the roof scoop is the air intake. For rallying in those cars such as the wrc cars they perform a function but i don t know what. Re read what i said its for the passenger area of the car. For a normal street car it s just gives it look to make it look more aggressive.

I have no idea what good a roof scoop could do. This small increase in pressure works wonders to keep out dust and sand from the rally stage. Deep 6 rally team merch and also random car sticker. To flush out the.

If the car was a rear engined air cooled engine car like an old vw bug it could be used to force cooling air over the motor. Hood scoops are for cooling the engine or engine components. I explain the basics of how the airflow works around. So a car that has the engine in the front the purpose of the roof scoop is merely for looks.

In almost every case a large naca duct will provide more than sufficient airflow without increasing drag raising the boundary air thickness or causing turbulent airflow. The main reason for having a roof scoop on a rally car is to actually pressurise the interior of the car slightly. What are roof scoops for. The only other reasons for a roof scoop are to cool rear mounted heat exchangers radiators or to provide intake air for a rear or mid mounted engine.

It cools off an appropriate spot when you start to get hot headed. You ve probably noticed that if your car windows are open fresh air gets sucked in. On a rally race car a small roof scoop creates positive pressure in the cabin pushing dust out of window. Any dust floating around the cabin will seriously inpeed the driver s vision and make it much harder for the co d.