Thread: Sheerluck's project D3

Originally Posted by sheerluck

Yes, is the answer! The blue hoses stand out a little You could probably see why I was keen to change the air con condenser too.

So the radiator is at the back, the big unit in front is AC condenser, under that is engine oil cooler (?), and then FM intercooler?
Id be interested to know. So are they all covered in red dust?

Originally Posted by sheerluck

Are you kidding?? I look at some of the pieces of junk on the roads around here, and I'm sure half of their drivers would look at my D3 and think "I wish I had a car that was in as good a shape as that"

Being Jimboomba, have you built in some anti theft electro wizardry? Your going to stand out driving around there.

Originally Posted by rar110

So the radiator is at the back, the big unit in front is AC condenser, under that is engine oil cooler (?), and then FM intercooler?
Id be interested to know. So are they all covered in red dust?

Radiator at the back with air con condenser at the front. Underneath is an extra fuel cooler, and below that is the intercooler. Yes, red dust is the problem, everything is stained with it, particularly aluminium parts.

There doesn't appear to be an oil cooler that I can see, but there does seem to be 3 fuel coolers - one near the starter motor, the one across the bottom of tye radiator, and one at the front of the engine "V".

The cooler for the gearbox fluid is built into the radiator.

Originally Posted by sheerluck

And one of these:
USI-160 - 160 amp Winch Isolator | TRAXIDE - RV | Traxide - RV

I wondered if you had thought about doing anything special regarding mounting the in cabin switch and LED light that goes with the USI-160?

I suppose one could just hide the little box somewhere as the switch is not the sort that one is going to use daily, but the LED would be nice to watch as it tells you what the isolator is doing, or not.

Originally Posted by sheerluck

Radiator at the back with air con condenser at the front. Underneath is an extra fuel cooler, and below that is the intercooler. Yes, red dust is the problem, everything is stained with it, particularly aluminium parts. There doesn't appear to be an oil cooler that I can see, but there does seem to be 3 fuel coolers - one near the starter motor, the one across the bottom of tye radiator, and one at the front of the engine "V". The cooler for the gearbox fluid is built into the radiator.

Any idea why cooling fuel is so much a priority. I've never heard of it. But I'm a novice when it comes to modern motors.

Originally Posted by bbyer

I wondered if you had thought about doing anything special regarding mounting the in cabin switch and LED light that goes with the USI-160?

I suppose one could just hide the little box somewhere as the switch is not the sort that one is going to use daily, but the LED would be nice to watch as it tells you what the isolator is doing, or not.

I'm not anticipating doing anything unusual with it, just mounting it near the headlamp switch. I did think about mounting it somewhere like under the cubbybox lid, so that that you can get to it or look at the LED only when you need to, as I was concerned about the LED flashing being a distraction at night.

Originally Posted by rar110

Any idea why cooling fuel is so much a priority. I've never heard of it. But I'm a novice when it comes to modern motors.

Only in terms of very basic physics - the cooler the fuel, the more dense it is, and the higher the calorific content of each injector opening, and the bigger bang for each cycle.

I'm not sure if that theory translates well into real life or not though!

Fuel cooling is usually done on pump bypass fuel before being sent back to the tank.
The pump is cooled by the cool fuel coming from the tank, and the engine only uses a small portion of the total amount the fuel pump processes.
This is also true for most turbine engines in aircraft.