electric operated engine cover

Widebody, you make one, i'll buy the second one.

Will

I 've done this on half a dozen different speedsters ... at the end of this post there's a link for a 3" 12volt stroke Linear Actuator.   You want a 3 - 4" stroke and the one you want will have pre drilled holes in both the base of the actuator and at the top of the piston. The base gets attached to a fabricated bracket, you'll use 1/4" pin to secure the actuator to the bracket, this allows for slight rotation of the actuator as it moves in and out as well as attaching a piece of "pull wire" to it you can reach into the wheel well and pull the pin to release the actuator from the bracket to raise the lid in case of voltage failure etc. At the  top of the actuator you'll also fabricate U shape bracket that gets attached to the underside of the deck lid and a hair pin captures this bracket to the top of the actuator. You'll need a relay and double throw double pull switch to operate the up and down . There is so trial and error geometry wise in getting the actuator placed correctly as when it extends and retracts there is a pivot movement too.  

https://www.ebay.com/itm/3-Str...7SW295bLPkrQKC9lJoOQ

Switch  https://www.ebay.com/itm/Heavy...7:g:GfYAAOSwhfVc~pYl

the switch would be activated from the cockpit, it wouldn't be everything or nothing,on the order of a directional switch to raise and lower, the heat would escape from the bellow like material that would be vented with small holes, don't have it all worked out in my head, but put together a nitrous jetski back in the late 70's before it became a household thing, I'm pretty sure I could put this together.

a thousand thanks Alan.

Darrell, see a listing for sale on the Beck website. The Indio Red Speedster has a short video showing the elec actuator raising the lid.  I did this following Alan’s advise. 

I also followed Alan’s trick on the cut out behind the license plate. 

With a TypeIV 2.7L in the Florida heat both were very helpful in keeping CHT under control. 

Tom

I think the bellows is going to be the hard part.

Darrell, Todd with AmunRa(CMC widebody Speedster) had exactly what you describe, a linear actuator with a momentary up/down switch. It worked well for him to keep temps in check.

Instead of the bellows - why not a plastic housing that has two electric radiator type fans to suck the air out when open?

@WOLFGANG- There's not a lot of free real estate in the engine compartment, Greg- where would you put them?

I wasn't really doing it for high heat as I have never seen a hot condition, just something different while maintaining a stock like look, just too much time on my hands, but its gonna be cool to play with.

might as well just buy a Porsche...they have been there , done that..years ago..

problem with Porsche is they don't make that setup for our little plastic cars last I knew... maybe you can enlighten me.

widebody boy posted:

problem with Porsche is they don't make that setup for our little plastic cars last I knew... maybe you can enlighten me.

 

I believe he meant if you want a rear lid that raises with a bellies attached to it but an actual Porsche automobile, not a Porsche part. 

Darrell!

My son has a 996 with the extender for the engine cover, bellows, too.  If you would like, I can ask him to take a few photos to see how the “P boys” did it.  Even better would be to let me borrow it and drive over there for a look-see, but he hasn’t re-upped his insurance for 2020 yet.   🙁

Robert, I knew he meant buy the real thing I was just playing with him, I thought we were done with this subject after Alan basically built in on paper for me .

We were done after Alan’s post.  The rest has just been our typing fingers running off at the keyboard.    

Gordon Nichols posted:

We were done after Alan’s post.  The rest has just been our typing fingers running off at the keyboard.    

But Gordon, it's what we do!