Patent ID: 7380623

Claim:
A cooling structure for an engine exhaust system, comprising: a deflector installed underneath the exhaust system in an intake/exhaust reverse engine in which an engine intake system is disposed toward a cooling fan placed at a front of the vehicle, and the engine exhaust system is disposed toward a dash panel; and a space formed in front of said deflector communicating between an engine compartment, where said exhaust system is located, and an outside of the vehicle bottom portion; wherein said deflector has a base, which faces the front of the vehicle, and said space is formed at least in part by an under-cover that encloses a bottom surface of the engine compartment; wherein said engine is installed at the bottom thereof with a sub-frame having a hollowed quadrilateral figure, said deflector is fixed at a rear segment of said sub-frame, and said under-cover is installed at a bottom of said sub-frame; wherein said deflector includes: lower wings that extend from a bottom of said base and couple to a vertical surface of the rear segment of said sub-frame; and a rear wing that is horizontally formed at a rear of said base for being coupled to a horizontal surface of the rear segment of said sub-frame.