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


 Hi Paul,

 This is the scoop I am thinking of. You can get just the scoop at:
 www.up22.com  The scoop is PR2. Lots of others also available.

 Dale Davies

Yes that would work but it has some draw backs. Visibility chief among them.
All we really need is a bump in the cowl over the engine a somewhere between .5 and 1 inch. Nice boundary layer bypass however.

Paul Lamar