Adam wrote: >Take a look at the head-on offset impact test... > > www.oz.net/~sneakers/crash.htm > > It'll open your eyes. Great pictures! Actually, what opened my eyes on these (V-)anatomical cross-sections was to finally see the convoluted path that the fresh air takes before passing over the heater core, up through the vents, etc. No wonder it's barely a whisper by the time it exits the vents. Has anybody had ANY success increasing the outside air flow through any of the front dashboard vents? Even at maximum the fan only gives so much more oomph to the air coming in through the front grille and this big greenhouse we drive around in heats up like a mo-fo, even when the ambient temperature is perfectly pleasant. I do get a noticeable increase in flow from the windshield vents by cracking one or more of the side windows, of course, but it's a noisy alternative. Thinking along these lines I removed the old, crumbled-up foam stuffed inside the plastic "venturi" vents that my '89 has behind its back windows. Didn't really make any difference I could perceive, though, so I guess they weren't really clogging anything up. Anybody found any other trick that works to get more air moving through the bus? (It's not Friday yet, so please no suggestions to remove the windshield, etc.!) -Steve |
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