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Re: intercooler sizes?
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Thu, 03 February 2005 07:02
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Hmmm, this is the first time I've heard of internal friction being discussed WRT intercoolers. I guess your argument could be valid if it's a poorly-designed intercooler (eg a long and narrow core with a few very long tubes), but even then we're talking about a very small effect here. However, a well-designed intercooler (ie lots of short tubes) will actually have less internal resistance because there is a greater number of paths for the air to travel through. Kind of hard to explain without sketching it out, but hopefully you get the idea.
FWIW this is why I chose to have my intercooler built the way it is. I had two JZA80 cores which I wanted to join together, and it would have been easiest to join them end-to-end (thus utilising the factory end-tanks), but this would have doubled the internal resistance - same number of tubes, but twice as long. Instead I chose to have new end-tanks fabricated which joined the two cores side-by-side. This means the internal resistance was cut in half - twice as many tubes, same length.
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stradlater | Wed, 02 February 2005 03:58 |
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OnAHigh | Wed, 02 February 2005 04:06 |
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Silver_r33 | Wed, 02 February 2005 04:29 |
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Norbie | Wed, 02 February 2005 09:19 |
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Silver_r33 | Thu, 03 February 2005 00:14 |
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Norbie | Thu, 03 February 2005 03:12 |
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Silver_r33 | Thu, 03 February 2005 06:53 |
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OnAHigh | Wed, 02 February 2005 04:34 |
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stradlater | Wed, 02 February 2005 04:36 |
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HyDrA | Wed, 02 February 2005 04:36 |
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Silver_r33 | Wed, 02 February 2005 04:49 |
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OnAHigh | Wed, 02 February 2005 05:11 |
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stradlater | Wed, 02 February 2005 05:12 |
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HyDrA | Wed, 02 February 2005 23:59 |
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Norbie | Thu, 03 February 2005 03:10 |
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HyDrA | Thu, 03 February 2005 03:52 |
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stradlater | Thu, 03 February 2005 03:05 |
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stradlater | Thu, 03 February 2005 03:17 |
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3sfe | Thu, 03 February 2005 05:57 |
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