Radiator Cooling

[Mick DMember]

It would be a bugger of a thing to get to the spare tyre. :laugh:

[Anonymous]

LC4skin wrote:

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This is the ice box in the boot

Ahh….that makes some sense. I’ve seen ice being put into the engine bay at street car drag day once can’t see all that weight being of any benefit in drag cars.

Might be good for the dyno queens though :laugh:

[Matt BakerMember]

Its ridiculous but the thing makes the best part of 2000hp at the wheels on pump fuel.

[Anonymous]

I might look at an oil cooler system for AC unit in the taxi, see if I can keep it super for those hot summer days. Hell, while I’m at it I might get one for my brake lines too, insurance against the PBR brakes fading in the traffic on the way into work, all that stop starting :laugh: :laugh:

[Bruce CurtisMember]

You may scoff Moto, but 20 years ago i built a “cold can” for my Turbo Rotary corolla, the 1/2″ fuel line was coiled through it and you added ice, worked a treat.

Now the watercooled intercooler isn’t a mist sytem, they’ve been around for years, as has Water/meth injet for big boost, crikey even I was a nipper when the lads first used that. No this system the intake piping runs through a watercooled jacket, reducing intake temps significantly, the asphalt surface and ambient temps in the staging lanes can rob lotsa HP out of a vehicle, experienced myself at Willowbank many times during summer meetings.

There is more stuff out there to enhance power than you or i are aware of and much more to come yet.

[Anonymous]

The water cooled intake jacket is a good one, haven’t heard of that. I didn’t mean to offend in my last post Bruce I just had a naughty streak come over me and got all facetious

I was taking the piss out of the stereotype of car owners buying ‘fully sik’ stuff for crap cars just because it sounds good or ‘they do it in the WRC/supercars/Whatever’ more than your mate whom I quite obviously don’t know.

As an aside a guy called about my 300 the other night and offered $9.5 for it but would pay $9.8 dependent on condition :laugh: I told him politely I’d let his mum chomp on my winky before I sold it for that and then he come back with:

Kiddie: Wanna swap for a car
Moto: I have one mate (purposely not asking what said cars was)
Kiddie: You can have 2 cars then
Moto: I don’t want a second car
Kiddie: It’s got 400hp
Moto: That’s nice but thanks anyway
Kiddie: Just been rebuilt by XXX garage
Kiddie: I’ll throw in a second set of 19’s
Moto: Mate, I don’t want a second car

And so on until I put the phone down. The point is, how does this guys mind work? Maybe he thinks I’m 17 and the thought of some resprayed purple VL or whatever the hell he was flogging would lure me into a trade :laugh:

I sit here laughing about it, you kinda had to be there, I’m surprised he didn’t offer me his girlfriend. Had he done that though he might of had a sale

Bit of deviation from topic but it’s made me laugh again :laugh:

[Bruce CurtisMember]

No offence was taken Moto, we have always made fun of the “chrome exhaust tip, big wheels” wannabes since i was young, nah if I can be so self elevating, we’ve always been a bit more serious than that.

Ie;
VL ranger with complete driveline out of e-38, fully seam welded and strengthened bay

1978 corolla P/van shell with many different drive combos but best was 12a turbo bigport through celica w-58 into shortened hilux diff with TRD centre and 40k worth of parts, like RA28 struts with Koni adj inserts, LJ torana springs, cortina 6 cylinder trans tunnel, 55-45 weight dist, 4″ tailshaft, tailsaft loop, big oil cooler, cold air induction, cold fuel box, adj wolf 3D ECU, coil over rear end, 3/4 chassis, Toyota lite truck power steering, 12.5 discs and volvo 4 spots, 100 litre tank with surge tank and twin high flow holleys, Showa racing radiator set at 12 degrees slant, Paddle clutch and all fully engineered in 1988.
Built to hillclimb, ended up Dragraced and a bit of club circuit.

Rod;
MkII RS2000 with highly tuned 2L with masport box and all bilsteins
MKI escort with mid-tuned 2L masport box and Konis all corners.

GXL with 4 bolt 351 clevo, FMX hi-stall 9″, running 2V heads into torquer manifold ad 650DP, accel ign and high lift long duration cam/ onto solids & roller rockers.

Layoff for a few years to get his business and career happening, but now BA XR6 upgraded turbo & poppet, new manifold setup, flowed head, different forged Pistons, cam grinds, programmeable ECU, flowed dyno built exhaust, Hi-stall wonderbox, massively intercooled, hi-flow pumps, oil cooler, aftermarket radiator and heaps more that I tend to zone out about cause it’s a bloody falcon, but 440kw at rear wheels so far and he’s a bit grumpy about it’s final drive ratio.

Funnily enough you point out about WRX and so forth wonderboys, last weekends drag meeting, not a single one turned out, mostly old blokes in very serious rides, early and late models including a verified 1100 hp GTR that was simply amazing to watch and i reckon the owner/driver was at least 50 yr old, street legal twin turbo VX V8, MkII eascort 351, mini panelvan with 400ci smallblock and T700 auto, and gotta love this …. a well setup turboed Fiesta crowd pleaser cause it looked standard, not real fast but a headturner nonetheless.

There’s some serious lads around, just so happened they’re the same serious lads from 25 yrs ago mostly, with new toys and more money.

BC

[LiamMember]

Trailboss wrote:

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Most high performance top end drag cars have the block sealed with coolant and the coolant is returned down the by-pass passage back to the pump to again go around the block. No radiator very limited run time till over heat
TB

Is the content anything similar to what open block system’s use or would it be something completely different?

[BillMember]

,Layoff for a few years to get his business and career happening, but now BA XR6 upgraded turbo & poppet, new manifold setup, flowed head, different forged Pistons, cam grinds, programmeable ECU, flowed dyno built exhaust, Hi-stall wonderbox, massively intercooled, hi-flow pumps, oil cooler, aftermarket radiator and heaps more that I tend to zone out about cause it’s a bloody falcon, but 440kw at rear wheels so far and he’s a bit grumpy about it’s final drive ratio.

What have you done about the water pump turning backwards on the barra motor

[Bruce CurtisMember]

KTM Bull wrote:

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,Layoff for a few years to get his business and career happening, but now BA XR6 upgraded turbo & poppet, new manifold setup, flowed head, different forged Pistons, cam grinds, programmeable ECU, flowed dyno built exhaust, Hi-stall wonderbox, massively intercooled, hi-flow pumps, oil cooler, aftermarket radiator and heaps more that I tend to zone out about cause it’s a bloody falcon, but 440kw at rear wheels so far and he’s a bit grumpy about it’s final drive ratio.

What have you done about the water pump turning backwards on the barra motor

Dunno Bull I’ll ask him on friday when we have a few laughs about his bloody ford obsession.

[BillMember]

Im thinking i should hold a cooling system school for you guys to kill some of the myths that marketing gurus have got out there to cover up poor design maybe when TB is doing his north coast servicing school

[Bruce CurtisMember]

KTM Bull wrote:

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Im thinking i should hold a cooling system school for you guys to kill some of the myths that marketing gurus have got out there to cover up poor design maybe when TB is doing his north coast servicing school

pre-booking two seats in that seminar from here in Casino Bull.

and then a ride to test our progress…..

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