OrangCrush
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Is this mainly for the strip?
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Having the additional capacity and flow will make a difference both on the street and track. Adding ice is mainly for the track as the ice melts and needs to be replaced after each run.Is this mainly for the strip?
For single runs at the track that makes total sense. Remove the H?E which the ambient air passes through heating up the coolant. I'll ask Paul if designing a bypass kit would be something he feels is worth doing and report back.I like it. Having done some sub-ambient cooling work in the computer world, I was thinking this design out. It seems to me the benefit of keeping the heat exchanger in that loop disappears when you want to run with ice in the tank as the exchanger would begin to work against you with airflow and exposure to ambient air. It would melt your ice exponentially faster unless the ambient air was sub freezing also. It literally adds heat to your freezing water loop.
Have you tried running a simple bypass loop with a couple ball valves and a length of hose to completely bypass the heat exchanger when running ice? Otherwise, without ice or just in daily driving, the heat exchanger would be a benefit.
Just curious.
Just driving around on water without a heat exchanger and without ice I imagine would not be good. There has to be a way for the loop to extract the heat that's being added At the intercooler core or else the heat would simply keep rising and performance would suffer. One pass with a fresh tank of ice would be one thing, but without a heat exchanger for driving around you'd be in trouble. Just my educated guess. It serves a purpose but for subambient cooling I was saying bypassing it makes more sense unless you could insulate the exchanger completely from airflow and thermal gains, which would be a huge pain in the ass vs switching two valves, especially if those valves were just electronically activated from inside the car.I like the idea of removing the fans and heat exchange, along with Whipple's tank and pump for weigh reduction. Now I'm more curious what it does to IAT's just driving around on water...
One other thing... the last log looks like a log of the burnout. There's no shifting pattern in the RPM. Also wondering why the 2nd log seems to cutoff early compared to the first. It ends before letting off the throttle. Would it be possible to add the part where you let off to see the temp start to drop like the first log?Good catch. Images have been fixed. Thanks!
No Tank
Tank with water only
Tank with 20lbs of Ice
Any chance of fixing those graphs before your July 4th sale goes live? See my post aboveWe got some solid data that we felt you guys would be interested in seeing. This data comes from our 2018 Mustang GT 10 Speed Auto with the Whipple Gen 5 3.0L Supercharger.
The car currently runs a 3.50" upper and 20% lower which should make close to the 20psi range.