About that Vented Cover

[Angelfire]

Ok guys got bad new that vented cover they don't make for the zuma which sucks cause it was in the zuma parts list however since I got all your hopes up about the whole cooling issue I am designing a cover that will allow it to breath alot better and keep it cool at the same time not having to worry about road grit and water getting into it.

I made replica cover outta fiberglass with the mod already on it and stuck it in my wind tunnle to see what it did and it worked great and added no drag on it then I mounted it to a peice of alum that was about 1/4 thick and added a heat lamp in the back of it to simulate the heat build up I did it first without the mod to get a Comparison without the mod I shot the temp gun on it it read 105 degrees in 20 min and kept rising after that so to get the Equation's right I let the cove cool down back to room temp which was 65 degrees added the mod and ran it again for 20 min shot it with the heat gun and it was 70 - 75 degrees but it never went any higher then 75 and I left it on there for 1 hour so without mod 105 degrees and rising with mod 70 to 75 degrees steady no rise which Averages a 30 to 35 degree diffrence with no rise so now you can go on longer ride without losing power due to heat build up and belts slipping or melting down. I will post pics of the acual cover when I am done running a few more tests on it to get maximum cooling but thats all I have for now I will keep you guys posted.

[XPS1210]

heck sounds like you have a buisness!

MAke um, they will buy!

Let me know when you get the final product...

Once again Badmotorscooter... SUCKS AS USUAL!

I emailed them as well and will post the reply they send.. Which I'm sure will be!

"WON'T FIT" and nothing more to the email! That's all I ever get from them... don't have any clue what they actually do stock!?!?!?

[Angelfire]

Oh don't worry Jered I will let you know when it is done I want to make a couple diffrent variations of it and find out which works best and the type of application best suited for the variation's also depending on how much it will cost in material if it is cheap enough I will be willing to do the mod to your cover plates free of charge well have to pay shipping that or I can see if I can come up with a way to doit yourself reason I am willing to do that is cause so far you guys and these fourms have helped me learn so much about scooters and without this info I would never have had any ideal about these things considering this is my first acual scooter so Thanks Guys :D

[Angelfire]

Oh and as far as a buisness once I am done making them or moding yours and getting some feed back on it maybe I can talk to erich about maybe adding a new part to the web page and if he agrees and like the results I will buy about 20 covers and mod them all or I can just make them as he sells them then he shoots me over a order and I make what ever the request is it is a ideal atleast. :D hehe maybe even have a name for it like Provo's vented cover or provo's performance cover hehe but well see

[marylandmark]

A run one sentance is really hard to read when you are full of really good information but nobody can understand what are you are saying because it all runs together but if you added a period every so often we could see what you were really trying to say without reading it 1383 times.


:)

[King Vino]

Who knows, maybe we could use them here for sale. You should drop Erich a line.

[Angelfire]

LOL sorry about not adding period's :D anyways I was looking at the cover figuring out my angle and it appeared to me that there is a vent on the rear of the cover on the bottom.

So I look at it a little closer and sure enough they did make a vent HOWEVER !!! if you look at it then look at the main case you will see the vent really does not do anything because when they molded the mold right across where it was sopose to be open.

So here is what I did get your Dremel tool out and cut that damn peice out along with take out the peice of metal that is in the vent so the air can vent freely when you pull it apart you will see what I am talking about it is extremly simple and also amazing it acually helps alot with cooling.

and for a update on the new cover it is close to being done then I am gonna have a Die made so it can be poured as a whole so you don't have to weld also I am gonna make a race one on a CnC outta billet alum which will increase cooling a ton more however downfall of that is billet is damn expensive but so far so good thats all I have for now.