Hood vents

[PM-Performance]

For those of you who have removed the weather strip from the rear cowl area, have you noticed an increase in heat coming through your vents inside the car? I realize some won't care about this, but I notice warmer vent air after running a bit even with the weatherstrip in place. Warmer air would also make it harder for the a/c if you aren't recirculating the air in the cabin.

I normally keep my vents closed, but I havent noticed anything permeating into the car per say. I think I can feel more heat radiating around the window though when down.
Honestly, I do not think this is even a worth wild thing to do. I have seen ZERO change from removing mine.

 

[merkyworks]

For those of you who have removed the weather strip from the rear cowl area, have you noticed an increase in heat coming through your vents inside the car? I realize some won't care about this, but I notice warmer vent air after running a bit even with the weatherstrip in place. Warmer air would also make it harder for the a/c if you aren't recirculating the air in the cabin.

Live in Texas so I have plenty of hot weather testing on this. Generally speaking the ambient air already so damn hot the air coming out the cowl doesn't really make a difference for outside vent a/c. That said because the ambient air is so damn hot I always have a/c set to max/recycle air so it doesn't pull from outside.

The only negative I have experienced is when its rains and the outside temp drops a few degree. When I'm at a stoplight the hot air from the cowl will start to fog up the outside bottom of the windshield but once I get moving this goes away so no big deal.