rdomeck
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So...I run a fabrication shop and I ended up making this set-up myself. I have 9" of piping total and my cooler is 11"X15" with out the end tanks. I have a 11"X2 1/2" opening in my hood to get air to the cooler and I like my temps so far. I may put a puller fan on the bottom of the cooler if need be. I did a test run before I finished the hood scoop and seems like my IAT were pretty good. On an 85 degree day at 17psi I was running 120 degree's under boost and cooled down to 88 degree's within about 7 seconds. Would have done a longer pull but my tape that was holding the make shift hood scoop started to blow off. As it turns out it was only 105 MPH tape!!!
I'm sure this will get some negative input...As it has already. I have a bung welded in on the inlet tank so that I can see what my temps are before and after, but the sensor that I received didn't read for some reason. I did do some driving before I was able to have any air getting to the cooler and my temps quickly went up to around 200 degrees and didn't come down very quickly as one would expect.With the air getting to it I think it's doing ok. I never saw temps over 122 degree's. Will hopefully do some more testing tomorrow before I tear apart the car to paint it!
My reasoning......Seams logical to have as little plumbing to charge and I was not going to cut my front bumper support to put in a larger cooler. Many people do and that's fine but I wasn't going too. The factory plumbing was 98" the best I could measure. I'm now less that 10% of that with 3 times the factory cooler and a direct path of air to it and nothing really hot behind it (A/C condenser, radiator, turbo, exhaust, etc.)
I'm sure this will get some negative input...As it has already. I have a bung welded in on the inlet tank so that I can see what my temps are before and after, but the sensor that I received didn't read for some reason. I did do some driving before I was able to have any air getting to the cooler and my temps quickly went up to around 200 degrees and didn't come down very quickly as one would expect.With the air getting to it I think it's doing ok. I never saw temps over 122 degree's. Will hopefully do some more testing tomorrow before I tear apart the car to paint it!
My reasoning......Seams logical to have as little plumbing to charge and I was not going to cut my front bumper support to put in a larger cooler. Many people do and that's fine but I wasn't going too. The factory plumbing was 98" the best I could measure. I'm now less that 10% of that with 3 times the factory cooler and a direct path of air to it and nothing really hot behind it (A/C condenser, radiator, turbo, exhaust, etc.)
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