Would this pump flow enough for the intercooler I'm fabbing up?
The one I'll be making will be similar in size to the barrel type on the same site. Mine will be agout 25" long and about 6" in diameter, the actual chamber will be about 18"-20" long, the necked downed ends will be the rest of the entire 25" length. If not who sells pumps for this type of application? I figure my highest temp should be around 200 max. I hope to keep the charge going into my intake below 150 degrees. Possible???



http://www.pwr-performance.com/waterpump.htm

http://www.pwr-performance.com/intercooler.htm

 

That one should work fine.It will reduce your temps about that much,but the temps eventually rise due to heat soak with repeated runs.In the summer heat you fight a losing battle you can add a resorvoir with ice water to cool things down between runs.

 

I plan on mounting a reservoir/ice tank where my stock air box used to be. Maybe use some copper tubing inside that to shed heat and be able to coil it up to get the most surface area out of it.
This thing is going to take me a little while to get all the peices and parts made but it will be worth it in the end.

 

Heres a link to the type I will be making.
http://www.pwr.com.au/pwr/index.asp

Kind of weird, I drew this up about 3-4 months ago and started doing searches to get some ideas and there it was the same idea I had. I guess its simple enough so allot of peple had the same idea. Some just have the money, ambition and time to design and market the thing.

 

I know this pump is a cheapy, but would it work?

http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/pro...&ccitem=&xi=xi

 

Seems like a lot of money and time to make it work, but if that's what you want then by all means, go for it!!

FWIW, I got less then $350 in my FMIC on my STS building it my self and using a ebay obx intercooler. Satererday it was in the mid 90's and I took a little road trip. On the high way crusing about 80 pulling the hills it held about 103-104*, I did a coulpe 50-90+ WOT pulles to see what the temps would be and never got above 109. When driving around town, with stop and go never saw anything over 114. I'm running a 7 lbs boost right now.

 

I think that pump would work well, you don't need a lot of flow, in fact I think one of the perfomance tips for the radix is to slow the pump down so it has more time to get the heat out of the water in the radiator.

 

I have heard the same thing as far as slowing the pump down a little. Since the pump I would use will be a centrifugal pump it wont hurt it to have a valve to restrict flow a little so I can vary it and come up with a happy medium.
Found these other pump as well.
http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/sea...ults.jsp?xi=xi

 

I really won't have allot of money in it, just the aluminum and the price to have it all welded up, the pump, hoses, and clamps. I will do all the machining myself as soon as I get the final dimensions for all the parts. Plus I will be able to run an ice box faily easily for the track and whenever it hot as hell out. Work may be paying for some of the metal too. What they don't know won't hurt em'!!

 

Just out of curiosity, how will your heat exchanger be designed internaly?