Overheating with Full Race Intercooler

[nikhsub1]

If we lived in places that never see freezing temperatures then we could run Water Wetter from Redline. It provides the anti-corrosion you need while running mostly distilled water for better cooling capacity.

Water Wetter has solids in it, I won't use it. Hy-Per Lube is better IMO.

 

[brettmess24]

Used engine ice instead of water wetter when I raced CCS at Firebird in Chandler AZ. Not cheap but also good below freezing.

https://engineice.com




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[nikhsub1]

Used engine ice instead of water wetter when I raced CCS at Firebird in Chandler AZ. Not cheap but also good below freezing.

https://engineice.com




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It's just anti freeze - still has ****** thermal properties.

 

[brettmess24]

It's just anti freeze - still has ****** thermal properties.

Are you a chemical engineer?


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[cwylie]

I use my light bars every single day and love them. They are the tiny ones like 1” tall. It’s funny to say bail the lightbar which is in front of the intercooler literally making no heat at all but all while intercooler blocks the radiator and blocks most the radiator producing heat adjacent to it and it is not a problem.
I’ll get a picture posted up.

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The truck worked really good at the dunes too!

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Truck never overheated at the dunes either even with the 91 tune

Did you leave the rubber seals that connect the sides of the radiator to the grill? If you removed those I could see a lot of air escaping around the radiator. The bottom one has to be removed but I was thinking about having a piece of aluminum built to direct air up from the light bar area to the radiator similar to the factory rubber piece.

 

[nikhsub1]

Are you a chemical engineer?


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You'd think No but I have done many years of thermal testing cooling systems, materials, liquids etc. Again, any glycol (Ethylene, Propylene) is ****** at heat transfer. Engine ice is just Propylene glycol pre mixed with distilled water. There is no better liquid on earth (besides mercury) that cools better than pure distilled water.

 

[roostinyfz]

Did you leave the rubber seals that connect the sides of the radiator to the grill? If you removed those I could see a lot of air escaping around the radiator. The bottom one has to be removed but I was thinking about having a piece of aluminum built to direct air up from the light bar area to the radiator similar to the factory rubber piece.

No those are gone, and I even cut the plastic framework the shutters hooked to, to a minimum to get more air flow.

 

[cwylie]

So light bars in front and nothing to direct the air into the radiator. That might be the issue. Air flow is great but with nothing to direct it its going to flow to the low pressure areas and around the radiator. I had a Twin Turbo C6 corvette with a similar issue. The biggest fans could not correct a big intercooler sitting in front of the radiator. Put in some metal to direct the fresh air into the radiator and problem solved.

 

[cwylie]

Im guessing you removed these? If so I bet this is a lot of your problem. Fluid dynamics dictates air will take the path of least resistance. If these are not in there is going to hit the intercooler then flow behind the headlights around the radiator.

 

[roostinyfz]

No

Im guessing you removed these? If so I bet this is a lot of your problem. Fluid dynamics dictates air will take the path of least resistance. If these are not in there is going to hit the intercooler then flow behind the headlights around the radiator.

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No I didn’t remove those. ADD is going to help me create a skid plate that will flow more air. If that doesn’t help I’ll put in a new radiator.