Pic Request: Bugeye's with sti8 Scoops
 

Hello,

Not sure if I like them or not and need to make decsion soon.

Preferably silver and if poss wagons.

Cheers

Sti 8 scoops look chavvy mate, plus they are flimsy and flex at high speed.

Yea I think your right!

I love sti8 scoops on sti8's but just can't decide if I like them on bug's which probably means I don't lol

Flex doesn't sound too clever either.

They don't look like they fit properly, look really aftermarket and pants! Stick to STi 7 scoop

have a look at 'my garage'... my old bugeye (saloon) great car...sad i sold it

comments about flex are on the money for sure , i backed off at 100 the other day as it looked like it was about to blow into pieces ? :eek: but personally dont mind the look of em on new age cars just not classics ? here mine anyway , may be swapping with someone for oem soon hopefully :D


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no flex in mine up to around the 150 mark. Mine isnt there for looks. The difference in charge temos fron the earlier smaller original scoop is pretty amazing. I've had this on 5 or so years no so cant remember exact figuire. But at the time of fitting i swapped between the two scoops and measures I/C temps and the later 2003 model scoop is far better.
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Turbotits were did you get your scoop from ? Does it have the strenghing struts at the front of the scoop ?

Anyone no were i can buy a v8 sti style scoop with the strenghing struts ?

Thanks Andy

yes it does. mine is from Milsport

mine also dosent move or start to vibrate quite solid tbh and allow so much more cold air to the cooler

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I have a fibreglass scoop on my bug which i fitted over a year ago and ive never had any probs with it, i fitted some chrome mesh in it with matching mesh in my roof scoop
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The sti7 scoop looks so right, the sti8 scoop looks so wrong..................even on an sti8!

Look. I dont care about look. I care more about what its doing

I'm another one that thinks they look wrong and I had one!

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Try and get a bug sti scoop if you can.

turbotits is that prodrive building on the way back from api ? as i saw it on my way home and couldnt believe my eyes wasnt expecting to see a huuuuge prodrive building whilst driving home on the motorway :D

Have you "tested" what it's doing?

yep by the M40 i think

i would of thought subaru would of tested it?

I havent tested what its doing areodynamicaly (spelling) but i have measured and compared charge temps with both 2002 and the bigger 2003 scoop. certainly from my temp guage plumbed into the i/c temps are lower with the bigger one. More importantly when they get high from sitting still in traffic the temps cool much quicker with the bigger scoop once on the move

One of my old motors, few different angles ;)

Couldnt resist the first pic lol

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as would i. which is why they changed to a bigger one

That's what i was wondering as i assume the STi7 bonnet is a different shape to the 8 so didn't know if the scoop would have the desired effect - aerodynamics and all that blah blah blah.......
I've seen it a few times on here when people have removed the backing plate for instance off their classic bonnet vents and claim they have reduced the under bonnet temps but as they haven't tested it they don't realise they achieved precisely the opposite :thumb:

Not on an STi 7 :thumb:

would,nt of thought the shape of the headlights would effect the flow of air?

its all down to preference?

Mine. I like it.

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its bigger so more air :D and more air is a good thing :norty: if anything its gonna perform better than sti 7 its obvious ! as for the looks its a personal opinion as is everything .

The bonnet is different too is it not?

No - not obvious. Like i alluded to in an earlier post, it would seem obvious that removing the bonnet vent back plates on a Classic would return lower under bonnet temps but quite the opposite is true.

Just going back to this one - you would have thought that Subaru tested the Classic in excess of 100mph but the fact that the scoop is all but useless over 100mph would suggest otherwise???

its obvious it lets more air in thats a fact surely :wonder: as its a larger opening !



or should i be entering myself in the " most stubborn " thread ?:D

click on subaru forums then choose a topic then new post :thumb:

I don't dispute it has a bigger opening and it "could" let more air in and in all fairness i'd be hugely surprised if it doesn't, i was simply asking the question does it? Maybe because of the aerodynamics of the front of a V7, the extra space of the Scoop is not taken advantage of??? However unlikely, it is entirely possible as aerodynamics are a funny old game :thumb: