Intercooler Water Temperature

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93TyGuy

Boost Freak
Re: Intercooler Water Temperature

I have the ATR Aux intercooler kit in my Ty. I moved the pump over to the fender by the drivers' side wheel, it worked great all the way until I blew my valve covers off. But thats for another post. The ATR kit made a huge improvement on my operating temps for the intercooer. I had a shur flo pump hard wired to on all the time and I never had a problem with heat.
 
turbodog

turbodog

Donating Member
Re: Intercooler Water Temperature

I am using a commercially available thermistor which essentially halves the range of a Autometer Tranny temp guage. So, when switched to that input, my trans/oil/coolant/IC temp guage gives me the IC water temp X 2.

I also saw a big difference with the plastic scoop and dual-heater-core aux CCHE's.

I left a Jabsco in the stock location, but ADDED another pump below/behind the pass side headlight. This really helps the flow thru the extra CCHE and plumbing.

Not sure that having a IC fluid readout is all that essential, but it's fun switching between the inputs :)
 
HotRudyRod

HotRudyRod

New member
Re: Intercooler Water Temperature

I'm thinkin about heat shielding the turbo, cross over, DP, upper IC and hoses, using an air conditioner condenser as second IC and a fiberglass hood with air stracting ducts plus a NOS spray bar kit with co2 on the original IC. It should work pretty good i believe but i'll let you guys know when im done.
 
#2875

#2875

built, not bought
Re: Intercooler Water Temperature

HotRudyRod said:
I'm thinkin about heat shielding the turbo, cross over, DP, upper IC and hoses, using an air conditioner condenser as second IC and a fiberglass hood with air stracting ducts plus a NOS spray bar kit with co2 on the original IC.
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vs.

ALKY



winner: ALKY
 
HotRudyRod

HotRudyRod

New member
Re: Intercooler Water Temperature

Thanks man, i've seen how my truck responds to cold temperatures and think this is one area where you really dont wanna miss a beat.
 
SyTyJedi

SyTyJedi

Jedi Council
Re: Intercooler Water Temperature

If you have done everything you can to the stock IC system, just assume that your inlet temps at the very coolest would be equal to the outside air temp. Unless you wanna see how much it goes up to at the end of the run, just drive by a bank that shows the time/temp ;)

Remember it can't get any cooler than the outside air temp.
 
turbodog

turbodog

Donating Member
Re: Intercooler Water Temperature

HotRudyRod said:
...plus a NOS spray bar kit with co2 on the original IC.
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Gives you a chance at getting below ambient air temp, but hard to do in practice; i.e.how to predict how long it will take the 'superchilled' coolant in the CO2-cooled CCHE to get up to the upper IC, and time that with your launch. The alternative is to spray CO2 'way early, and keep spraying until ready to launch, but lugging around that much CO2 doesn't sound like fun.

In comparison, the complexity-to-reward ratio for Alky looks very attractive.
 
HotRudyRod

HotRudyRod

New member
Re: Intercooler Water Temperature

turbodog said:
Gives you a chance at getting below ambient air temp, but hard to do in practice; i.e.how to predict how long it will take the 'superchilled' coolant in the CO2-cooled CCHE to get up to the upper IC, and time that with your launch. The alternative is to spray CO2 'way early, and keep spraying until ready to launch, but lugging around that much CO2 doesn't sound like fun.

In comparison, the complexity-to-reward ratio for Alky looks very attractive.
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Yes thats true, how to guess when the cool fluid will hit the IC but readin here BillZ list of items, the temp gauge conected to the intercooler would tell you exactly when its at its best. Now you can spray some co2 at the end of every run, and on the way back let the "wind factor" do its work.
The only thing here is not to spray the co2 when you're launchin or make a ram air system that wont let any of it into the intake or it will fall flat cause of the fire retardant properties of it.
 
vortecfiero

vortecfiero

New member
Re: Intercooler Water Temperature

Im still working on the rad/heatexchanger idea
the stock fiero rad is more than enough for my set up
im working on a thick alum rad that has aprox 1/4 sealed off as sep system
for the heatexchanger
3/4 of a performance rad will still be better than the "ok" stock rad.
this allows
1) the huge rad fan to pull through the heatexchanger as well
2) frees up some valuable realestate in the front of the car
3) all-in-package install and re/re is a snap
4) allows me to add features like sensor mounts etc

right now im using a johnston pump, modded upper ic, 3/4 copper to the front of the car, and a heater core mounted to the rad. When the pipe to the ic is really hot.. the ic is only slightly warm.
 
HotRudyRod

HotRudyRod

New member
Re: Intercooler Water Temperature

It's just a six said:
My friend makes a Icee chiller for the water to flow through & around the condensor? Evaporator?
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Yes thats the part, thats just what the guys at the junk yard called it and it stuck. That sounds like a good idea, even better than Ford's "supercooler", the one they were talkin about putting in the prototype lightning. I would like to see your set up once its done, good luck on it.
 
James Thomas

James Thomas

"NO CLASS"
Re: Intercooler Water Temperature

vortecfiero said:
Im still working on the rad/heatexchanger idea
the stock fiero rad is more than enough for my set up
im working on a thick alum rad that has aprox 1/4 sealed off as sep system
for the heatexchanger
3/4 of a performance rad will still be better than the "ok" stock rad.
this allows
1) the huge rad fan to pull through the heatexchanger as well
2) frees up some valuable realestate in the front of the car
3) all-in-package install and re/re is a snap
4) allows me to add features like sensor mounts etc

right now im using a johnston pump, modded upper ic, 3/4 copper to the front of the car, and a heater core mounted to the rad. When the pipe to the ic is really hot.. the ic is only slightly warm.
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I'd be worried about heat soak from the engine side.

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James
 
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