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the car was all alone in the cold because I had to paint my smoker, poor baby

Wow, That's just not right.

Figured I would share the Buffalo weather with everyone for the holidays

Snow is still melting off here we got around 4 to 5 inches on christmas day and the next day.

that's soooooo wrong!! that poor bird :(

and the long island.nyc area its a mess

And we still haven't had more than a few flakes. 60's for tomorrow :D

Boy I sure wish I had as much snow as you have, wanna trade. We lived in Palm Beach Gardens for nearly 20 years, still have friends in Port St Lucie. With any luck will be heading back that way soon

snow is not something to wish upon yourself.. don't let it's powdery-whiteness fool you!!

ha ha I know man its been friggen cold here for like a week. But today it finally warmed up. I was actually sweating outside today and I wasn't doing anything.

I've had to se ice of my windshield before I go to work for like 3 days straight. Thats unusual here for us.

Here's what my poor Cat looked like last year when we were having this same py weather:

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and it hasn't looked much different this year. I'm so glad I've got heat fixed in both cars now. Last year was  cold in that car with the leaking cowl vent and no heat.

lol you Floridians dont get even half of what we get so hush :flip:

yeah I know that why its such a big deal when we do get ice:giggle:

BRING ON GLOBAL WARMING.. i wanna see florida get HAMMERED with 4ft of snow before i die.. lol

347thunder.. is your name jamie and are you originally from jersey? lol

close, Jeremy but I must be missing the joke.lol

.. there's a guy named jamie who lives(or at least did) in port st lucie.. i used to be friends with his younger brother.. thought maybe the world was getting smaller LOL

You guys need to quit whining. This was our Taurus on Christmas Day:

Was a foot till the 60 mph wind started. Had a half foot under the hood from the scoops. Anyone made nice foul weather covers for T.C with open scoops?  :clown:

foam lol

I actually thought about low expanding spray foam and a plastic bag? put the bag in the opening and fill it with foam. Rube Goldberg looking but might work though  :pbb:

i meant rubber foam lol you can get it in black, cut it to squeeze in and trim it up so it doesn't look like butt

This weather is crazy anymore! You never know what it's going to do anymore.

To block off your scoops wouldn't the foam insulation for pipes work? It's cheap and you can cut it to size.

hey here's a question slightly on topic. What happens when you guy's with TC's are driving in the rain/snow. What happens to all that moisture? where does it go? Its been bugging me for a while. I don't know enough about TC's to know that.

 
Ive removed the intercooler piping that was riveted to the hood to make room for the 5.8 and carburetor so I cant tell on real T.C's But if you look in the scoops on mine your looking at the distributor and wires. When I did the build I had a high temp problem so I put a dual fan from a 99 a cougar it moves so much air that it seems like a positive air pressure is created under the hood. Ive gone through the car wash and checked after it was dry after driving in the rain it was dry. As far as driving in snow I hope to never find out with 380hp under the hood the car gets away from me in the rain don't want to try snow.              Like someones Sig don't drive faster than your guardian angel. And buckleup  :burnout:

x2 @sarjxxx
im really interested in figuring that out as well.

All that moisture? We all know the TC's get garaged and the cats come out to play :p

the moisture goes through the intercooler and down over the turbo. really nothing too complex and nothing to worry about.

oh. 

Well now I'm wondering what cars with functional ram air scoops do. You know like the old Firebirds and other, I guess, custom built cars. I mean I know custom built cars probably don't go out in the rain but well of course firebirds were production cars. I guess they just eat the rain and burn it up with the gas? Of course then if you get into a real downpour you stand the chance of flooding out your engine.... Hmm, well this isn't what the thread was about but my mind wanders....