Toymods Car Club Inc: Tech & Conversions => thoughts on barrel coolers???

Toymods Car Club
www.toymods.org.au

F.A.Q.

Home

Members

Toymods » Tech & Conversions » thoughts on barrel coolers??? Show: Today's Posts :: Show Polls Email to friend

Author

Topic

shinybluesteel
Forums Junkie

I supported Toymods

Location:
melbourne
Registered:
June 2002

Re: thoughts on barrel coolers???	Thu, 03 February 2005 23:45

hey mate, no problem. here is my take on yourproblem, if i understand it correctly, and at least ofer one tip. i studied heat exchangers briefly in my engineering degree, and there are basically two things you need to consider, well more than two, but basically everything happens twice. you have your cooling fluid, and your fluid to be cooled. you also have the area which is in contact with the coolng fluid, and the area which is in contact with the fluid to be cooled. with an air to water heat exchanger, the area in contact with the cooling fluid (water) can be much smaller than the area in contact with the charge air, as water has a much, much greater specific energy than air. the only problem with WTA is that you then need to cool the water, but it sounds like you dont have any problems with this at all. it sounds to me like the problem you are having is not having enoguh area for the charge air to interact with, as your coolant temperature levels are staying pretty low. of course, the answer is to increase the area that is in contact with the charge area, which unfortunately can only be done by replacing your air to water exhanger. if you have a smallish intercooler lying (series 5 RX7 would work well,)around and some mechanical savvy, you can make one failry easily, but i have never tried one of this type. what you do is fabricate ducting so the charge air passes through where the cooling air used to go, then weld up the air inlet and outlet and install fittings for coolant hoses. this way you have a large surface area for the charge air, and ample area for the cooling water, and an ugly heat exhanger that may be a bitch to fit in your engine bay. im planning on convincing my mate to go down this path eventually, i am very interested in testing the PWR setup more. EDIT: oh yeah, the one quick tip i can give you that should be easy to do is this. heat exhangers work best when set up in a "counter flow" arrangement, that is cold water goes in where the air is coolest, and comes out (hotter) where the air is hottest. in this way you maintain the greatest average temperature difference. in your application i doubt this will make much difference, as i think the temperatyre of the water in your barrel would be fairly constant throughout. good luck! [Updated on: Thu, 03 February 2005 23:48] [Report message to a moderator]

[Message index]

-=] Back to Top [=-

Current Time: Thu Jul 31 01:03:22 UTC 2025

Total time taken to generate the page: 0.0045549869537354 seconds

.:: Contact :: Home ::.