Came across this about using Ford itercooler pumps and thought you guys might be interested in case you haven't already seen this:


http://mbworld.org/forums/showthread...ight=lightning

 

This is my choice and I'm sticking to it #10-24504-03

 

Any Engineers or guys good at Thermal Dynamics to do the math and find out what's the most volume we can push through the heat exchanger before loosing cooling efficiency?


And in simple terms - if the coolant goes through the system too fast it doesn't have time to cool down, so if the pump flows too much we'd be running nothing but hot coolant.

 

Very true for us "street folks"

But HDDP will have a Dry Ice cooling tank and a larger HE. The greater the volume the better. (so it seems)

I am not a thermal dynamics engineer so I plan to install a IAT guage.

If my IAT's rise when I install a ODPS then I will upgrade to the Johnson Pump and seperate the engine/HE coolant tank.

 

Gerhard Shriff (Bell Intercoolers) did the calculations for the SRT6 engine and came-up with a 7gal. per min. flow rate to maintain a 400hp output. That's why we decided on that specific Johnson pump #10-24540-03... Granted, you will have to increase the OEM tube diameter from 5/8" OD to 3/4" OD, but it's really an easy job...

 

I have the same problem with my 64.5 Mustang. I put 3:55 gears in the pumpkin and at highway speeds I've been have trouble with it getting hot ever since, it's running around 2,950 RPM @ 60 MPH. I finally figured out that it's just pumping the coolant through the radiator so fast it don't have time to cool. I just ordered a complete 3:25 posi unit for it last week. I wanted 3:40 gears when I changed them out a few years ago, but was having trouble finding them and just setteled for the 3:55's.