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DrSeuss 12-17-2006 06:09 PM

Re: air to water from ebay?
 
I had a look on ebay to see what you could do with it. You could use a motorbike radiator and a small 12v electric pump, that would give you pretty decent cooling. Plumbing is just rubber hose and a few jubilee clips. More money then an intercooler, but more effective and more stealthy.

buk9tp 12-17-2006 06:46 PM

Re: air to water from ebay?
 

Originally Posted by Snafubmx234
Buk, stop commenting on things just to make it "seem" like you have a clue.

It needs a seperate pump/res/heat exchanger. Otherwise it's not going to do a damn thing.


Originally Posted by chris
Ya for a street car its worthless unless you like carryin 20 pound bags of ice with ya

;)

USS 12-17-2006 09:46 PM

Re: air to water from ebay?
 

Originally Posted by buk9tp
if you want it as a dd i guess.... otherwise have a nos shot at it... or if its just a track car... filll it with ice and water.. and keep plenty of ice on hand to fill it with...

It wasn't DD part, it was the nos shot and filling the linked core with ice/water that threw me :S

If you want to throw it on a DD, you need a large volume of water.

Turdbo 12-18-2006 11:02 AM

Re: air to water from ebay?
 
i was planning on using a pump and a heat exchanger, i wa going to mount it where the intercooler is now and put a cell up where my battery used to be. id put the exchanger after the intercooler so as its goes from the ibntercooler back to the cell, it will go thru the exchanger and help cool it down. i was gonna mix in this stuff we use at work. Its normally used for your radiator, but it has the ability to keep your cooling system cooler. Its almost like water wetter but its in this gallon metal can, ill get the name of it tonight. I mostly wanted the water to air to have a shorter distance from my turbo to the throttle body and i think it would be fun to put together

DrSeuss 12-18-2006 11:23 AM

Re: air to water from ebay?
 
Just find a radiator with an integral reservoir. Even a 600 will have an oversized radiator for this application. Some of them even come with small fans.

The only worry is, if anything fails, your putting uncooled air into the engine (eg a coolant leak or coolant pump failure). Whereas an intercooler you leak boost at worst.

Turdbo 12-18-2006 01:09 PM

Re: air to water from ebay?
 
im mostly worried about a core that wasnt welded properly and water pumping inot my engine. id like to tthink i could trust an ebay one, but i fear the chinese man welds

Racintweek 12-18-2006 01:15 PM

Re: air to water from ebay?
 
it wouldnt be hard to test for leaks, now if there was one it could be a bitch to fix.



i dont see why running it daily wouldnt work, with a large enough cooler and resovior it will work just fine

bitchasscracker 12-18-2006 01:50 PM

Re: air to water from ebay?
 
i'm using one on my new set-up

raiden571 12-18-2006 09:19 PM

Re: air to water from ebay?
 
is the car runnin g or still in the process of building it?

Donald125 12-19-2006 01:19 PM

Re: air to water from ebay?
 

Originally Posted by Turdbo
im mostly worried about a core that wasnt welded properly and water pumping inot my engine. id like to tthink i could trust an ebay one, but i fear the chinese man welds

They work just fine without any leaks, gotta belive the person who use to work there 8)
(might as well buy one from me and save :y )


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