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Originally Posted by Irace86.2.0
For starters, please learn to quote effectively.
You can read, right? Follow the thread conversation. Mike and I were discussing the merits of airflow and cooler setups, and I brought up rally cars to illustrate how they did fine with relatively little, comparably speaking, airflow, yet they are high-horsepower, extreme, race vehicles, which suggests people are overplaying the significance of cooler placement for a street car.
Follow my questions and points on post #8 and #24. What are you plans for the car? I agree that you can do anything, but your original post, and unless I missed it, nothing since that original post has stated your goals for the car. Someone could have answered your question by suggesting that you build a custom bumper with a V-mount radiator/intercooler/oil cooler setup with air flow dams that channel air to the coolers and dump the air up like the setup below and to use the two sides for brake ducting, but the best setup may not be a financially reasonable setup, nor may it be necessary if your goals are for a 300hp turbo setup that is just for street use (hypothetically). If you want sound advice then it would help if you made it clear what your plans are for the car. What are you horsepower goals and driving demands because that will dictate cooling needs?
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"Learn to quote"
Sincerely,
Overcooling Internet Guy
1. I hat to remove about 7 links and 5 pictures just to quote you, and on a 'modestly' hosted forum, its reliable at best.
I'm bored, so I'll bite.. Rally.... you're whole argument hinges on the viscosity and subsequent surface tension of a water and aggregate mix. NO ONE CARES.
GOAL for the car, as originally stated, and several times since, but here goes again my friend. I have time, money, and a willingness to do this right, at least on a fundamental level. Ok, so what does that mean!? Well, quite simply I don't want 5 layers of heat exchangers of shit in my front bumper because "it's easier/good enough" that way. So, what? I want to take a careful and considered approach and I'm willing to learn and do it right. That's "the point" of the OP.
The "goal" is an efficient way to cool oil and air. Heat soak is easy with a louvered/vented hood.
Let me make this really simple for you so we all don't have to endure 600 more messages.. early intercooler sizing (surface area) is important right? Same thing for an oil cooler, no? Radiator?
So, the thread is an engineering centric heat exchanger location open discussion. I'll boil it down to just the intercooler for the sake of brevity and complexity (for you). We buy/spec intercoolers based on size.. then WHY BUY ONE, THEN COVER HALF OF IT UP WITH SOMETING ELSE DESIGNED TO DO THE SAME THING.? If the discourse of this thread still escapes you, just don't respond..