And I got an e-mail directly from Bruce and Tim at CoolBreeze - offering a group buy of Cool Breeze Scoops. Price is $34.00 each for a minimum order of 5 and shipping is INCLUDED.
The "sale" bit is pretty funny, but I must admit I've been tempted to buy one to try to keep my feet from cooking. One wonders how much noise they make at highway speeds. If you do end up with 60 of them, I don't suppose you'd loan me one to try it out?
Pat, I'll save you 4 mouse clicks ;-) I have the cool breeze scoop thingy and it's the real deal. As I describe it you will think I've become a paid mouthpiece for 'the man' ;-)
You start feeling it's effect at 25 / 30 mph. It makes a huge difference and I love it for multiple reasons;
1) outside air is so hard to get into the cockpit, this solves that, allot of air at speed
2) it shoots the air straight downward into the foot well, it swirls around your feet (lifesaver for me) and then comes up and out across your body (lifesaver again!)
3) here in the blazing and horribly humid weather of Houston, sometimes us crazy people actually drive with the top down and the AC on full (I know, it's not the best mileage you'll ever get but it's still better than you buddy's 6cyl mustang ;-) this device swirls that air around and you feel it (to a lesser degree) over the entire body rather than the 2"x2" part of the hand that the vent actually hits.
4) even better that #3 is using this to mix the huge amount of heat that the miata can put out, to warm the entire cockpit on cold day / night drives. This is great (for those 2 months that we get cold weather) (cold being a relative term and subject to individual interpretation, in case Davoud is lurking ;-).
Unfortunately, mine's been stepped on by my passengers a couple times as I've been lazy and left it lying in the foot well and being flat black (read, invisible) you don't realize it till you hear the crunch. It still works but the bug screen is gone and the part that goes down into the windshield header is partially broken off.
Grant, I agree that sometimes it's just too hot / humid for top down driving however, having this amount of airflow extends / widens that envelope a bit. You know what I mean, it's the difference of being able to sit outside when there's a breeze at temperatures you wouldn't put up with it if it were more still. It really does make a measurable difference, I hate to be w/o it on warm top down drives.
Definitely. On days when the temperature barely hits 70F my NB still cooks my feet unless I turn on the A/C (even with top down). If the Miata could just take in outside air and shove it into the footwells or out the eyeballs, it would make it a far, far more comfortable car. What happend to the "good old days" when cars had "vents" that you could open that routed outside air (from the front wheelwells?) into the cabin. I guess when A/C became common, they decided there was no longer any need for vents.
Their mistake! Oh and, operational wing windows! That would really help! There is / was a company selling replacement windows for our stationary wing windows. They were still 'fixed' however, they had a race car style open able vent that you could turn to direct air in different directions. Seemed like a great idea to me.
Larry, you must not be from the gulf coast. You've heard of third world (no, I'm not admitting TX is third world........... still not sure) well we call it the 3rd coast ;-)
This heat has even made my tortoise have problems with keeping cool, and he should be in the western Sahara Desert region. This is not currently a fit environment for humans at all.
This summer has been particularly brutal and dry here, and it is probably my last one ever without an A/C in the car. If I did not have a house A/C available, I would move north very quickly.
Luckily, I do not usually have to drive during the daytime, so it has not been so bad this year as it would have been.
It also keeps me out of rush hour traffic, which I have only driven in maybe 20 times total in the last 3 or 4 years. I used to drive in nasty traffic that many times in 2 weeks or less, the horror......
This heat has even made my tortoise have problems with keeping cool, and he should be in the western Sahara Desert region. This is not currently a fit environment for humans at all.
This summer has been particularly brutal and dry here, and it is probably my last one ever without an A/C in the car. If I did not have a house A/C available, I would move north very quickly.
Luckily, I do not usually have to drive during the daytime, so it has not been so bad this year as it would have been.
It also keeps me out of rush hour traffic, which I have only driven in maybe 20 times total in the last 3 or 4 years. I used to drive in nasty traffic that many times in 2 weeks or less, the horror......
This heat has even made my tortoise have problems with keeping cool, and he should be in the western Sahara Desert region. This is not currently a fit environment for humans at all.
This summer has been particularly brutal and dry here, and it is probably my last one ever without an A/C in the car. If I did not have a house A/C available, I would move north very quickly.
Luckily, I do not usually have to drive during the daytime, so it has not been so bad this year as it would have been.
It also keeps me out of rush hour traffic, which I have only driven in maybe 20 times total in the last 3 or 4 years. I used to drive in nasty traffic that many times in 2 weeks or less, the horror......
Thirteen years with a Miata in Dallas, and never once did I consider it too hot to keep the top down. Of course, I DO often drive with the AC on. It take the edge off the heat just enough.
Frank, you're tougher than me! Now, being what some Texans would refer to as a 'damn Yankee (grew up in central IL), I'd be willing to bet that I do more top down cold weather driving than you do! I love top down, cold weather driving!
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