Frederic's radiator cooled intercooler.

[Bruce Plecan]

If you want some serious info., Spearco out in CA has been doing this stuff
for years, and include a bunch of info in their catalog.  Sorry, I don't
have an address for em
Bruce


> 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
> >
> >
>