Aftercooler Gains

[Walter Sherwin]

>
> >> 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.
> >>




Thanks Greg!  Appreciate the input.  You have echoed many of my same
concerns.  Glad to have a sounding board to bounce ideas off.

Walt.

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