Frederic's radiator cooled intercooler.

[James Weiler]

I've got a basic question here.  What kind of water pump flow rates does 
one want to aim for?  Do you want to recirculate the water once/min., 
twice, etc?  Do you use just straight water?  Are there corroson issues, I
would assume antifreeze would help as long as it was aluminum 
compatible.  May be some 'Redline water wetter' would help.

Lastly, is the intercooler and remote mounted radiator suposed to be the 
same surface area?  Or should the radiator be twice as large as the 
intercooler?  Any particular ratios desirable?

I've got an '88 XR4Ti turbo, they come non-intercooled.  I can get a 
T-bird TC intercooler cheap, so I'm thinking about welding some reservoir 
tanks to it as making it into an air/water device.  The TC has a hood 
scoop where as the XR4Ti doesn't.  Just an idea.
Thanks
jw

On Tue, 20 Apr 1999 ECMnut at aol.com wrote:

> Some good examples of factory liquid/air intercoolers are
> 1.) Syclone Typhoon
> 2. Lotus Espirit Turbo
> 3. Toy MR2 turbo 
> They have totally separate cooling systems, with a chiller
> intercooler and pump, all tied together with heater hose.
> The Syclone folks use a shurflow RV fresh water pump 
> to replace the wimpy bosch unit..  It moves twice as much 
> water and corrodes less.
> Mike V
> 
>