Trick, what are your thoughts on the res. size?


Im not happy with how I have everything mounted at this point, especially the trans cooler. Even with the fan its still getting hotter than I like....that or im just bored. I am going to move the hex up higher and move the trans cooler up higher so its more in the path from the bumper opening, because right now it looks like the air is just going straight over it.

 

Did you take the billet grills off? I remember you posting up that it really helped recovery times with them off, so would surely help the fans push more air.

And my -AN fittings should be in today for the Meziere i/c pump, so hopefully I will have time this weekend to log some IAT's, get this swapped in there, then log some new IAT's and hopefully see a difference. I will post up when I do.

 

When I did that test, I took off the entire grille, not just the overlay.

 

I see. And would probably be a good way to collect bugs in your fans too, haha

 

haha yea

is it joker that cut out the grille part and doesnt have anything there in front of his intercooler?

 

It looks like it:

https://www.performancetrucks.net/fo...ine=1273826606

 

I redid all of the brackets today since I wasnt happy with how it turned out. The trans cooler was not working near as effectively as before, even with a fan on it, so I moved it up higher directly into the air path. The first time around I reused the AL I already had so it didnt cost me anything, but today I went and bought a strip, and angle piece of AL.



I also got new fittings for the heat exchanger, and man they have really helped improve the flow of the pump from just barely coming back to the res to spraying the other side of the tank like a water hose. These are much better than barbs since the hose can be easily removed without cutting.




I still need to wire the fans back up. This revision also uses less bolts, blocks less of the rad, and I dont have any more clearance issues with the grille from the fans.

 

That looks nice and clean. Nice Job.

I may refer to this thread when i get a TC 40,000 .

 

Our standard tank is roughly 2 gallons. But its not a tank thing unless you are planning on using ICE/ AC type chilling of the water. Tanks are great for increasing the capacity of the system, and perfect when you are adding ice. So you can get more ICE into the system. But if your air temps are out of controll (and the rest of the system is fine) the only real fix is to get a larger IC into the system.

What where your air temps btw? and at what boost?

Your HX location is great but fans are not needed unless you are in stop and go traffic, hot lapping or spending most of your time at slow speeds. Most of the time your at HWY speeds etc, then fans are really a restriction to air flow.
As you seen with your tranny temps that fan is just not as good as getting into the normal air flow.

If you want and have the time we could build a new IC for your system that would be larger then the current system. This does require the blower to be raised up to maintain the proper clearances inside. Which also changes belt wrap etc.

I have never seen the IC up close but I would bet it is a dual pass design. We like single pass IC gettting the water out of the IC is so important to getting the heat away. The faster you can do it the better off you are.

Ford has this issue of very hot air temps. Here is what we did to fix there issue for the street trucks. The race stuff we increased the cores depth but added a 1" spacer to keep things even...

124' @25.5psi with a 3.4whipple. No ice was used just water. IF we would have used ICE the temps would have been alot colder.

I be more then happy to talk with you about setting something up. Let me know. Really clean install btw.

 

I daily drive my truck and a good portion of time is spent in stop and go traffic.

Judging by the temp gauge on my cluster, just moving the trans cooler up 3 or 4 inches helped out about 20-30 degrees, and thats without a fan.

Right now my typical IATs are +15-20 just driving around out of boost, but at the end of a WOT I typically see 145-155 with 10-11psi.

I havent tested it out yet since I did everything yesterday, which I feel just watching the tank return volume, the temps should be a little better since fluid is flowing much faster. I have always heard the intercooler of the tvs1900 is very good. I was going to try the ice thing in the tank, but hear it melts too fast to really be useful.