[Irace86.2.0]

Originally Posted by czellers

"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..

You still didn’t answer the question: what are your horsepower goals and what are you going to use it for? Depending on your goals, that will dictate the cooling needs. Your concerns are not concerns if your goals are a boosted daily driver at moderate horsepower, so the solutions in this thread will potentially be overkill. If you have deep pockets and want overkill then why are you asking an internet forum for advice? Go call up Twins Turbo, and ask those guys to make a custom V-mount setup or any other shop with expertise. Put the largest and heaviest setup you can in the available space. Have them build you a custom bumper. I don’t really see what there is to debate or discuss if you don’t want tailored answers. In general, there is a huge resource of images of race car setups for 500+hp cars like I posted for the Supra video. There are plenty of OEM setups you can pull from too. There isn’t much to discuss if you buy into the idea that the more is the merrier, so what are you expecting to gain or learn from this thread without being specific about what you want to achieve? If you care to optimize or make the setup the most efficient it can be then at minimum someone would need to know your goals, constraints, budget, turbo placement/setup, etc. Call a shop up with less and see if you get a better answer than “it depends”.