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bahrx7 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.

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.

Evan, if thats the case how do you explain how this works?

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While this intercooler is not efficient, it will provide a certain degree of cooling. obviously airflow through the fins will cool the intercooler quicker, but as soon as the charge temps are higher than the intercoolers fin temperature, the heat will disipate through.

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Ya, it's not placed in a hot engine bay with no air flow going over it. If the surrounding air is hotter than the fluid in that cooler, there is no way the fluid will have a change in btus it possesses.
If the surrounding air is cooler, being that the cooler has a larger surface area, and is made out of a metal with good heat transfer abilities, the fluid will be cooled.
Heat moves from an object that is warmer, to objects that are cooler.

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And te surface area just affects te rate of temp change and the rate that which btus are given up

Exactly Marshal, we are both saying the same thing here. both are aluminum, both will allow heat to be transfered from the warmer process fluid to the colder ambient conditions.

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very nice picture!

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Took these on the way to the Moose Jaw show on saturday, first time picking up the camera in months so they aren't the best shots.

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Also went to the Yorkton drags on sunday and got these.

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