I'm finally getting ready to order all the pieces and parts for an intercooler set up. I'll be putting everything together myself so I have some questions on what will work for my design. (Water to Air) Don't want to do a air to air.
This is the pump I thought of using, if you know of a better one to use please post a link.

http://www.performanceparts.ford.com...tKeyField=6199

The intercooler I'm making will be roughly 25"-30" inches long, 6"-6.5" o.d. with maybe a .25"thk. wall round housing, either end being necked down to the STS pipe diameter under the rocker panel.
I have not yet decided on the size of the thru tubes for the air to pass through, I just know there will be allot of them. Maybe.25"-.624" i.d. filling up the space of the 6" dia. housing.
So with that said, I think the total volume for the system on a wild *** guess will be about 2.5-3.0 gallons, this would include all hoses and a heat exchanger, something the size of a large tranny cooler or motorcycle radiator.. I could be way off on this calculation.

What would the best flow rate for a system this size knowing that the fluid curculating too fast will not properly shed the heat. I may be putting some bulkheads or baffles in the unit to slow the flow if needed for what ever pump I go with.
The pump would be switched for when needed the most, and I may even plumb it through the heater core as Duner did to shed even more heat but that will be last.(valves to open the fluid flow from the intercooler and shutting off the flow from the engine's coolant.)

 

How about this then, anybody have fow rates on the lightning pump?

 

I "think" it is 5 gals per min.

 

Ok, 5 gallons per minute. With that information how often do you need to completely turn over the fluid in the system?
I cannot find any good information surfing the net on this subject. I'll keep looking.
I know of your flow is too high the heat does not get pulled away from the cooling surfaces.
This is a subject I don't have any real knowledge on, just what has been said to me in passing by people of limited knowledge I've disscussed it with.

 

That is going to be based on the efficency of your intercooler and H/E. The L pump works great for the L and for the Radix system. I would suggest starting with the L pump and doing some testing on the water temp vs discharge temp.

 

Just a suggestion, but I planned on using the old radiator off of my quad.

 

I am going to be using the meziere one. http://www.meziere.com/2005_catalog/16.pdf the WP136