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Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 3:57 pm
by matt.mcinnes
My heat exchanger is in the back no issues at all with thermo fans on it.

Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 5:08 pm
by Z()LTAN
do you find the extra piping to and from the cooler gives a slow heat gain, thats alot of extra water
Is it easy to bleed if the rad is much higher than the cooler?
Is it worth putting 2 pumps on it, one to and one from?
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 5:45 pm
by matt.mcinnes
Z()LTAN wrote:do you find the extra piping to and from the cooler gives a slow heat gain, thats alot of extra water
Is it easy to bleed if the rad is much higher than the cooler?
Is it worth putting 2 pumps on it, one to and one from?
More water the better.
Davis Craig pumps shift either 80 or 110 liters per min depending on the model.
You need to bleed the air at intercooler but that's easy to do with ours.
2 Pumps are not needed.
Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 6:40 am
by matt.mcinnes
Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 9:33 am
by Z()LTAN
that thing is quick
and whines more than a dog at dinner time
Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 1:58 am
by matt.mcinnes
The BMW intercooler is ready for drilling and tapping and should be pushing close to 600hp from one of our generic 4 core designs.

Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 8:53 am
by clm434
matt.mcinnes wrote:The BMW intercooler is ready for drilling and tapping and should be pushing close to 600hp from one of our generic 4 core designs.

Are you guys designing car parts or art work????

Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 9:01 am
by clm434
535hp @
8250 RPM
Cast aluminium look doesn't look as professional as your coolers.
Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 9:58 am
by matt.mcinnes
clm434 wrote:
535hp @
8250 RPM
Cast aluminium look doesn't look as professional as your coolers.
I agree all that money and I would have at least made it a little more bling than just a casting. The BMW were working on should be a close match for it.
318is with a 335i block and 745i head shoe horned into it @ 18psi.
Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 5:59 pm
by matt.mcinnes
Now back to the Mav, called in at TrikFab today to pick the 12 core up for machining tomorrow morning and Marin's rad will be ready tomorrow, the mountings, bleed point and returns from the intercooler are done. Just the main feed to the pump to do.
Rather than use a 4 way splitter on the return we elected to feed each intercooler core out let into the radiator direct, just need drilling and tapping to take the fittings.

Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 8:34 pm
by awill4x4
clm434 wrote:
Are you guys designing car parts or art work????

Yeah, the end tanks were fun to do particularly on the outlet side where the transition is rectangular to oval then oval to round.
We found an excellent program to generate the sheetmetal layouts we require. It only takes minutes to generate the layout but it's a liiiiiiiitttttle bit longer to fabricate and weld them.
Regards Andrew.
Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 8:55 pm
by SilverBulletBM
Is there anywhere else i can find info on the BMW build, i have a similar project and will be looking at doin pretty much same thing.
Also keen on seeing a GU with a generic one fitted and the approx cost of it all... Just to get a comparison, what inlet temps would a normal W/A cooler get, say a frozenboost one, if anyones got any figures.
Cheers
Aaron
Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 10:28 pm
by matt.mcinnes
SilverBulletBM wrote:Is there anywhere else i can find info on the BMW build, i have a similar project and will be looking at doin pretty much same thing.
Also keen on seeing a GU with a generic one fitted and the approx cost of it all... Just to get a comparison, what inlet temps would a normal W/A cooler get, say a frozenboost one, if anyones got any figures.
Cheers
Aaron
Most of the BMW is here that we have posted so far. But we won't be showing the internals
Generic ones are not costed as yet but soon.
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 7:46 pm
by matt.mcinnes
OK Marin all ready for plumbing and mounting.

Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 1:09 am
by matt.mcinnes
Are we there yet

Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 8:45 am
by coxy321
Have you guys run into any problems with lack of real estate under the bonnets of some of the newer cars? How do you normally get around this?
I'd assume you would relocate a few bits and pieces, and then try to work with what space you have available??
Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 5:46 pm
by matt.mcinnes
Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 5:56 pm
by matt.mcinnes
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 7:35 am
by matt.mcinnes
Coolant return lines are run.

Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 4:15 pm
by matt.mcinnes
Feed to the pump connected.
Pump fitted and piping run.
Air box back in.
Feed lines completed
Next up the wiring

Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 7:03 pm
by lewie
good work lads very tidy

Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 10:47 pm
by RED60
Good work boys keep it up...

Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 5:55 am
by ozy1
looking sweet, so whens the plan to have this back on the dyno?
Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 6:46 am
by matt.mcinnes
ozy1 wrote:looking sweet, so whens the plan to have this back on the dyno?
Andy at DzlTec is back on Monday So I will see what he has on.
May just hard wire the pump and fan for testing as Marin flies out to Perth again on Monday and won't be back for 2 weeks, don't think I can wait that long to see how well this one works, Should get closer to ambient than mine having a better heat exchanger and hopefully the same results from the intercooler.
Marin's Turbo makes a little more heat at 11 psi.
The pressure drop for the intercooler last run was .2psi at 11psi but that was with no cooling so I expect a little more for the temperature drop.
Just have to fit the remote fill.

Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 9:20 am
by matt.mcinnes
BMW is almost complete too.

Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 3:43 pm
by Tojo
great work and great that you post pics to show it all. Does the heat exchanger need to be that big or could you get away with something smaller?
Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 4:15 pm
by matt.mcinnes
Tojo wrote:great work and great that you post pics to show it all. Does the heat exchanger need to be that big or could you get away with something smaller?
I actually have here in front of me end plates for a 2 core and a 3 core unit.
Each core is rated to 150HP but this has nothing to do with how much heat they can remove so we are going to build a couple of smaller units.
Just to build more information.
Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 2:12 pm
by matt.mcinnes
Well early start this morning and the Mav is all done.

Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 3:29 pm
by Hoonz
that bar needs lifting looks gumby :p
so how does it perform?
Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 4:27 pm
by marin
Rumour has it that it has cooled the air enough that they were able to add enough fuel to make 100.8kW @ EGT of 470C maximum with no smoke out da exhaust.
I'm sure dyno chart will be up soon enough.
I have my happy face on!
marin
edit: And yes, the bar looks gumby, but I only just bought it, looks wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy batter than the gaybar that was on there b4 (smartbar) so still have to mod it for body lift and high mount.