Thread: Water to Air Intercooling

Originally Posted by TonyC

Your main aim appears to be to get rid of the intercooler from in front of the radiator.

Regardless of the method you still have to get rid of the heat.

If you use the AC to cool the intercooler, then that heat is being dumped from the AC condenser, in front of the radiator.

If you use water to air intercooling, then you need a radiator for the cooling water, this would normally, but not necessarily be in front of the radiator.

Interesting thread non the less.

Tony

Good point and taken, suppose one differential being is that part / half of the radiator would at least have unfettered air and this is directly targeted at the hot area of the radiator. When fitting the EF Davies Craig made it implicit that the fan is as close to the inlet as possible for effective cooling.


The D2 already is designed for the heat of the Dual AC and if fitted we are replacing the advantage of having the rear cooled independently with the loss of the heater in front of the radiator. Certainly there is no energy for free, the loss of rear cooling is the cost of the energy.

Just further on the issue of the targeting of the electric fan position, the FMIC places the hottest area there in front of the coolant input.