Old Jan 14, 2008 | 02:57 PM
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Default Moving The HE Forward To Add Cooling Fans

I've been looking over the cooling system on the SRT6 for a while. And one of the biggest problems I see with it is there is just no cooling for the S/C heat exchanger except for when the car is moving at a pretty good speed down the road. Think about it, can you think of any case of liquid running thru some tye of radiator that isn't cooled by a fan. You may think that when the cooling fan for the radiator comes on that it is cooling the heat exchanger too. But nobody is going to convence me that it is, there is 1&1/8 inches of space between the HE and the AC condencer, I'm guessing it's designed this way so the condencer does not block free flowing air thur the HE. With that distance between the HE & the condencer on all three sides the radiator fan is just not going to pull any air thru the HE with all the other free air to pull above it. So I have decided to move the HE forward 1&1/4" to make room for two 6.5" 330 cfm cooling fans. To do this I removed the whole front bumper cover to see what I needed to do. The HE has a rectangluar type of funnel that attaches to it and the front of it, it just slides into the back of the bumper cover. That makes it pretty easy to move the HE foward, all I had to do was trim 1&1/4" off the front & sides of it. Then made some little brackets to move the HE forward, nobodies going to see them so they didn't have to be pretty. I did have to do a little trimming on some metal where the front bumper mounts and used a little touch up paint on what I trimmed. I'm also installing a nice digital Cyberdyne temperture gauge for the HE, there was a 1/8" NPT (plugged) hole on the drivers side for a probe. The fans will be operated by remote control with a key fob like I done my TC & ESP/BAS. I just got all the parts ordered today, it hit me for a little over $300, but I believe this will work great. In HPPD's case he's always got plenty of air running on a race track but I believe this will work great for a street car.
 
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Last edited by Steve Hellums; Jan 20, 2008 at 05:27 PM.
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