Michael,

    Bill Schertz sent me the name of the company here
    in LA that made the KIS windshields.

    Aircraft Windshield Company

    (562) 430-8108

    10871 Kyle St, Los Alamitos, CA 90720 Get directions Cross
 Streets: Near the   intersection of Kyle St and Kinmount St

    If nothing else this will save us a bunch of money on shipping alone.

    I ordered 3/16th gray smoke.
    She is going to get back to me with a quote.

    Had a long talk with the lady owner as we had some common friends.
    Her dad was ex Northrup started the biz years ago and died in a
 helicopter crash.

    Paul Lamar

 That is great Paul.Too bad we did not find out earlier.BTW is there
 anyway we can use the hood scoop to help in cooling the intercooler.Thanks

 Michael

 Those hood scoops are not ideal air scoops. They take in the
 boundary layer which is not good. Better to use the stock opening on
 the right side of the cowl. The scoops are mostly cosmetic. It might
 be possible to open up the back side to let some air out of the
 engine compartment. You need to run a few pressure test with a water
 manometer. I flew down to Tracy's place in Florida and instrumented
 his cooling system with a water manometer in 2002 and made some
 significant improvements.

 Paul Lamar


Paul,

What about routing the intake like Bill Schertz? Granted the radiator and oil
cooler locations are far from ideal, but if a single pipe could be routed
around the front or rear of the engine you would not need a scoop. With a
turbocharger, the long tuned runners are not as important. The long runners
would help with fuel vaporization. If a scoop is required, how about the Dodge
scoops from the muscle cars. They did not take air from the boundary layer.

Dale Davies

I am not sure what you mean by the Dodge scoop. Got any pictures?
I planned on adding a chin scoop with the stock oil cooler mounted
along side the rad. Recently becoming the classic rotary cooling
system. The air comes in over the top of the rads and out the bottom.


Paul Lamar