Benefits of Fender Vents

[2000Pimpinex]

What are the benefits? Is it all for looks? Help me out on this one fellas.

[BlazinCrx]

The fender vents are mostly for looks, the only way to make them functional would be to cut a opening in your inner fender where the vents are. This will help circulate air through the engine compartment giving you better cooling.

[Accord Man]

Originally posted by BlazinCrx
The fender vents are mostly for looks, the only way to make them functional would be to cut a opening in your inner fender where the vents are. This will help circulate air through the engine compartment giving you better cooling.

Ditto!

98% of the time, its all about looks..



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[2000Pimpinex]

Thanks for clearing that up. I really wasn't sure of the performance benefits that it had.

[Accord Man]

you wanted to put some on your ride?


Cause they do look hella nice on certain elegant cars.
I think they'd look nice on your ride.. With certain oter ground effects.

[2000Pimpinex]

I was thinking maybe after everything else is done. I need wheels, drop, turbo, kit before I would do that. But first the spoiler is getting squirted to match the car in a few days.

[Addict]

The idea used to be to cool the brakes. They had them on 69 Stangs as well as others. Now they are usually fake.

[VN-Tec]

Well still.. if they were origionally designed to cool something its not very effective at all.. Even if it works. .It would only at some point and speed.. But i personally think its useless.. 99.9% of the time.. Someone designs something for looks.. Then they make up something to say it actually has use for doing something.. Thus encouraging more peoople to buy it.. Even if it did work.. All that plumbing necessary to direct the air somewhere to cool it would jes about heat it up..

[BlazinCrx]

many of the vents come from the factory, hinting Z3 style, on Z3 they are functional, and that is what they are made to do, by increasing airflow to someplace, like the brakes or to circulate more air will help at any speed.

[Addict]

Originally posted by VN-Tec
Well still.. if they were origionally designed to cool something its not very effective at all.. Even if it works. .It would only at some point and speed.. But i personally think its useless.. 99.9% of the time.. Someone designs something for looks.. Then they make up something to say it actually has use for doing something.. Thus encouraging more peoople to buy it.. Even if it did work.. All that plumbing necessary to direct the air somewhere to cool it would jes about heat it up..

You gotta remember I'm talking about the old muscle cars. And plumbing wasn't anything more that an air duct.

[Big James]

Um. They are good for one thing, getting the outside of your car dirty! :mad: I used ot have them on my car, and I have no inner fenders. Muddy water would spray through them and it would get dirty real fast there.

[2000Pimpinex]

Thats gotta suck, well atleast it looked good from the outside.

[Whtehnda93DXSdn]

Inded it's for the looks..Something diff,not now as ALOT of people have Z3 fenders,but it serves no point..

Now if it was an opening in front of the rear wheels then that could be understood for brake cooling but that a totally diff story..

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