Aftercooler Gains

[Greg Hermann]

>> Air/Liquid systems will often allow one to reduce the size of the physical
>> heat exchangers and in turn allow those elements to be mounted in more
>> desirable locations, but, what happens when your cooling media saturates
>at
>> a high heat soaked temp after a mile or so of  WFO driving?
>>
>> The Intracooler certainly adds more complexity and cost, and would prolly
>> impose a 20HP compressor parasitic penalty

Hate to think how far a stock compressor would launch parts if you asked it
to do 20 HP worth of compression. 2 or MAYBE 3 HP is prolly the outside
limit!

 if left "On" at WFO, but, for
>> frequent forays into heavy boost (say 15-25psig with an efficient
>> compressor), together with the described Dynalene thermal buffering, do
>you
>> think it would serve the purpose for a pump gas street project?

NO. For light boost, yes, but for the kind of boost you mention, you would
need an air to air or air to liquid to ambient air IC unit ahead of the
refrigerated one to have a prayer of having enough chilling capacity.

You will still have a significant capacity deficit, and the weight of any
sort of thermal storage media becomes a concern pretty quickly.


>> A few intelligent electronic controls might also go a long way toward
>> improving the base functionality of the Intracooler product.  One could
>> almost turn this into a small thermo/controls/mech project, if carried to
>a
>> point of design elegance.

Ya gotta make the thermo work before worrying about the controls!

Greg
>>
>> Thoughts?
>> Walt.
>>
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