Thread: Can Waldig make a better intercooler unit???
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Old Aug 7, 2008 | 02:09 PM
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Talking Re: Can Waldig make a better intercooler unit???
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It works, I was seeing up to 43 degrees delta where before they were PUSHING 6 degrees. I do another post after the math is done, and I was hopeing for 20 degrees, wow.

Blue storm, sorry they are turbulators, check the word and you will see them. In these cores it looks like they took a smaller pipe and squashed it into a three sided pipe, has an inside and an outside and stuffed it into the pipe, 1/2 " should not have that level of fluid restriction. I looked but did not photo them when I did the install.

Brian had a posting of a web sight that is really good and yes they totally agree the higher the flow rate the better the scrubbing of the boundry layer promoting a better rate of heat transfer.

The stewart post identified the specific heat of the coolant at 0.5 which I will have to account for in my calcs. The deal is that I saw 170++ water out of the intercooler and 130's going in and I did not really get into it. Thats way better, and I figure without the gauge and 12' of hose extra, the water flow is probably over the 3.1 GPM figure, possibly as high as 3.3 GPM.

Enjoy Woody; the cool now.
 
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