Photography Thread - Post your pictures here. Any pictures :)

how is the bike with the riser bars?

Bjohnson wrote:

how is the bike with the riser bars?

Its amazing!
Those are going back on my DJ though, I went on a shopping spree on Chain Reaction this morning though and bought some DMR wingbars with a cross brace for like 30 dollars which have the same rise i think.

Very out of season and random I know, but I found these lost on my computer. No water mark I have yet to make one up.

When you get bored at work, cell phone camera fun.

What did you shoot that with Luis?

^d200 w/ 501.8 iirc
nice shot!

post more of your jeep

close enough, MONSTA.

^sell me

^don't know if srs?

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Is there fans on the bottom of the intercooler?

i also dont get how that works, if you do V-mount arent you supposed to duct it up to the rad/intercooler and then duct it after the rad/intercooler? wouldn't the air just be stopping right after the intercooler cause its hitting the hood?

bahrx7 wrote:

Is there fans on the bottom of the intercooler?

Couldn't tell ya, he said he plans on putting a vent in the hood to direct air at the intercooler but hasn't ran into any issues daily driving it.

Bjohnson wrote:

i also dont get how that works, if you do V-mount arent you supposed to duct it up to the rad/intercooler and then duct it after the rad/intercooler? wouldn't the air just be stopping right after the intercooler cause its hitting the hood?

It would be a lot better to have a vent to direct air through the top side then sucked through with the air coming in through the grill to the rad. But as it sits it's still better than having no intercooler lol.

abs0Lut wrote:

It would be a lot better to have a vent to direct air through the top side then sucked through with the air coming in through the grill to the rad. But as it sits it's still better than having no intercooler lol.

If he had it coming through the grill, ducted out a reverse vent hood that would be perfect. How is the rad situated?

The way its setup, it would be as inefficient as running no intercooler.

So is the rad v-mount to? or just mounted vertically like normal?

edit: Bahr it scares me how we post the same shit at the same time...

bahrx7 wrote:

The way its setup, it would be as inefficient as running no intercooler.

I disagree, the fins will do a lot more than just containing all the air in a solid tube would. The radiator isn't in the stock location but it is sitting vertically at the far edge of the intercooler.

abs0Lut wrote:

bahrx7 wrote:

The way its setup, it would be as inefficient as running no intercooler.

I disagree, the fins will do a lot more than just containing all the air in a solid tube. The radiator isn't in the stock location but it is sitting vertically at the far edge of the intercooler.

i disagree, if there is no air flowing through the fins then that intercooler is just a huge heat soak.

Bjohnson wrote:

abs0Lut wrote:

bahrx7 wrote:

The way its setup, it would be as inefficient as running no intercooler.

I disagree, the fins will do a lot more than just containing all the air in a solid tube. The radiator isn't in the stock location but it is sitting vertically at the far edge of the intercooler.

i disagree, if there is no air flowing through the fins then that intercooler is just a huge heat soak.

There would be air on the bottom side keeping it cooler, obviously not as efficient as it would be with a vented hood but like I said it's a daily driver and not a full blown race car where intake temps are closely watched. This all being said there could be a fan on the bottom, I don't know whether or not there is lol.

abs0Lut wrote:

bahrx7 wrote:

The way its setup, it would be as inefficient as running no intercooler.

I disagree, the fins will do a lot more than just containing all the air in a solid tube. The radiator isn't in the stock location but it is sitting vertically at the far edge of the intercooler.

With no air going through it, all you have is essentially the same as straight piping. Sure the surface area of the fins may be a bit more than just straight pipe, but i doubt by much at all. And that would actually be a deficit since you have a greater surface area directly exposed to essentially an oven (rotary engine bay).

When I sit in traffic I can watch my air temps rise, and they will just keep doing so until I get moving again, at which point I can watch them fall. But until I get moving and get air through the intercooler (properly ducted front mount), it does nothing at all. If you think about it, while I sit there, no air is going through the intercooler; I might as well have a straight through pipe. Once air goes through it again, it starts actually cooling the charge and doing what it is supposed to. If you understand what i'm saying, you will understand that without air passing through the intercooler it truely isnt doing anything at all.

i would hope it has some sort of ducting to get to the rad and intercooler. Daily or not, if you're going to do it. Do it properly.

bahrx7 wrote:

With no air going through it, all you have is essentially the same as straight piping. Sure the surface area of the fins may be a bit more than just straight pipe, but i doubt by much at all. And that would actually be a deficit since you have a greater surface area directly exposed to essentially an oven (rotary engine bay).

When I sit in traffic I can watch my air temps rise, and they will just keep doing so until I get moving again, at which point I can watch them fall. But until I get moving and get air through the intercooler (properly ducted front mount), it does nothing at all. If you think about it, while I sit there, no air is going through the intercooler; I might as well have a straight through pipe. Once air goes through it again, it starts actually cooling the charge and doing what it is supposed to. If you understand what i'm saying, you will understand that without air passing through the intercooler it truely isnt doing anything at all.

I wish the subaru guys would listen to well though out statements like that.

while yes, the fins and the larger surface area do help disapate heat, as soon as that surface area becomes hotter than the intake air, the air will then begin to take on the rising temp of the engine bay. Heat laws state that heat transfers from warmer objects to cooler objects, always, and without air passing over it to cool the larger surface area, it is just a larger surface area to attract the new underhood heat. I always wondered why people dont put on electric fans on intercooler set ups like that, or TMICs to bring air over them at slow spped opperation, it would provide greater efficiency than even a FMIC in similar circumstances.