<div dir="ltr">Sounds like malarkey to me. Remember this was an ALPINE first and those holes were there then. I'm not thinking that they were anticipating a V8 engine in there when they designed those holes.<div><br></div><div>But, regardless, I think it's pretty well established that they are bad news for keeping the air flow through the radiator and should be blocked off for Tigers.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 8:38 AM, John Watertor via Tigers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tigers@autox.team.net" target="_blank">tigers@autox.team.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><font color="black" size="2" face="arial">There was a Tiger question years ago when someone ask this question in one of the sports car magazines, on why there was holes on the right and left side of the radiator mount sheet metal.
<div>The answer was, the holes are to let air flow over each exhaust manifold when driving to cool the under hood temperature. Did anyone else ever heard of this answer?<br>
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