Banishing the cold North Wind

[adam912]

I've had my '66 912 hot rod since 1972. We spent our first 15 years together in nice warm Southern California, so I was not too concerned about a bit of breeze coming in over the bow.

Well, now we've lived in Southern Oregon for 20 years or so. It gets cold here, weeks on end of 18-25 degrees F. Yes, I know you guys in Buffalo are laughing at that. (Cold???). I commuted 50 miles for many years, and plugging the air leaks became something of an obsession for me, one never satisfied. Somehow, there was always a strong cold breeze playing on my midsection at freeway speeds, seemingly "leaking through the dash" somewhere around the radio.

I cannot count the hours spent on my back or my belly either under the front hood or under the dash, searching for little holes and filling them with silicon sealer. Yet the cold breeze prevails!

Perhaps someone would be good enough to go through the fundamentals of sealing the hood area and keeping this cold air from entering the cockpit? I know I must be missing something basic, like the way the seals install along the hood edge, or how that flap valve on the scoop at the rear of the hood is supposed to seal? I mean the one controlled by the strange lever on the dash, the one that's never worked properly in all the years I've been driving this car. I believe that I do have all of the stock parts in place, all the seals I know of, as well as the "rain pan" that appears to route the scoop air out of the trunk.

Any help/ advice much appreciated!



Adam 912.Out.
'66 912, 480K miles, S suspension, 2.2L T4-powered lightweight hot rod