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Originally Posted by Porterhausen
Very cool, keeping my eye on this. Very cool to see some engineering going on instead of obvious guess work. I for one would be very interested in a well designed radiator setup/ maybe some info on what you were going for as improvements? Either way if you decide to go to market you have one potential buyer!!
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Improvement was simple, increased heat rejection with a smaller overall package than OEM to make room for turbo kits. Heat rejection in a radiator is all conducted in the core. We are using one of the most efficient cores in motorsports, no other company in the world has access to such a core. I can boldly make that claim because I spent the better part of a decade working for the leading cooling system supplier for motorsports. The core has been and still is being used in NASCAR, WEC, Tudor Cars, etc.
Do we have data to back up those claims? No, we don't currently. The *only* way to properly do this is to place this core and the OEM core into a calorimeter and test heat rejection in a controlled environment. This cost starts somewhere around 5 grand and goes up from there based on what you want to know. Very few companies are able to utilize this besides high end core manufacturers that have these in house (Denso, Mezzo, Baer, PWR) and high end motorsports companies (NASCAR, F1). We likely won't be able to have this kind of data available. The only other test is to take a car overheating, install it, and see what happens. Not very scientific but it would prove increased heat rejection.
Updates:
Installed the Moto-East flex-fuel kit (sorry for taking off your badge guys, didn't flow with the colors in my engine bay though
). Made a simple little bracket, looks OEM-esque in my opinion, and I love that. Yes, some engineers can fabricate!
Arizona 91 octane piss water is 9% ethanol apparently. I then fed this output to the rear o2 sensor for an input to Ecutek for full flex fuel. Thanks again Moto-Phil! Great guy, always willing to help answer my questions and helped me out with my custom hose fitting needs.
P3 Gauge installed (please ignore FA20Club engraving
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Received the ACT clutch, will take some pictures of that here shortly and try to install it in the next few weeks.
Thanks,
Eric