intercooler as radiator?

[CoopsCoupe]

What would be the cons of using an intercooler as a radiator. Its not like you can't route the piping to still be gravity feed to water pump. The only thing I can think of is being to thick. Hard to find an intercooler that is 2 inch thick..

 

[interex]

There is a slight problem... Using an intercooler as a radiator won't be that good because the intercooler will move more water quicker, not allowing the water to cool properly. You'll be able to move more volume in the intercooler unlike an actual radiator.

 

[aspekt9]

I'm not sure why you'd use an intercooler as a radiator?

I mean they all use the same idea, which is an air to fluid heat transfer, regardless whether its compressed air, oil, coolant, or whatever....

I would think an intercooler would flow too fast for liquid since they are designed to flow large volumes of air at a pretty high rate.

 

[UnsafeAtAnySpd]

Why would you want to? What do you see as the pros?

 

[interex]

I'm not sure why you'd use an intercooler as a radiator?

I mean they all use the same idea, which is an air to fluid heat transfer, regardless whether its compressed air, oil, coolant, or whatever....

I would think an intercooler would flow too fast for liquid since they are designed to flow large volumes of air at a pretty high rate.

haha, it would have been better if you typed your own comment rather than pasting from google.

 

[jag987]

Huh?
why?


WTF?

besides that your car will overheat, it wont fit in there unless you get something custom made, and the price differnce.

 

[big_d]

Hmm...Radiators are cheap. I bought the cheapest one on ebay for my beater car along with a full gasket set, and it has yet to leak a drop of fluid(its been about a year).

 

[aspekt9]

haha, it would have been better if you typed your own comment rather than pasting from google.

Just goes to show you the majority of questions can be answered by the all-mighty Google.

Let me google that for you

 

[GsXdSmKingGsX]

haha, it would have been better if you typed your own comment rather than pasting from google.

Why didnt you just google it then? Same answers for this question.. Its not smart to do

 

[CoopsCoupe]

Well, we have done it before and worked great. didn't overheat. Reason being that it will cool when using a liquid intercooler with a different radiator. First off it would hold more volume. Im just wondering if I should have one made for mine. Price being no object for the drag car(some street). Yeah, who would have to thought to google when asking a dsm question. I guess we all come to the wrong place. I wasn't asking a stupid question I was just asking peoples opinon. Trial and error for me I guess. Thanks.... :S

 

[kergilman]

That's the spirit! Next try swapping your fuel pump in place of your oil pump!

 

[Calan]

That's the spirit! Next try swapping your fuel pump in place of your oil pump!

 

[rush2252]

you asked for opinions....

 

[CoopsCoupe]

HAHA, your comment was funny but I do have an imported from Europe fuel pump that can pump OIL on my drag car.. Kinda like AMS did for the top challenge. JOKES ON YOU! Thanks for the opinons though.

I wasn't asking to be seem like an idiot I was asking to see if anyone else had done it. We ran C02 with the other car to keep it chill and the volume of water worked great to feed engine and Liquid ic. I guess I just scratch this idea. I did forget that the radiator is made to spread water out over a large area so that that it may cool and when pressd back together is is colder. That was good advice but I didn't ask for the other rude comments.... Thanks again for the advise to those who gave it.

 

[rush2252]

I just didnt see a need to modify something that already functions. Some guys run the half sized radiators with no issues. Dont fix it if its not broken

 

[gettingwop]

I wasn't asking to be seem like an idiot I was asking to see if anyone else had done it. We ran C02 with the other car to keep it chill and the volume of water worked great to feed engine and Liquid ic. I guess I just scratch this idea. I did forget that the radiator is made to spread water out over a large area so that that it may cool and when pressd back together is is colder. That was good advice but I didn't ask for the other rude comments.... Thanks again for the advise to those who gave it.

I was thinking about CO2 and I was about to reply about that but you already tried the CO2 route. I mean it's a lot of work and really not a gain in performance or loss in weight. Plus you have to run the CO2 around the car, put a tank in etc. However, in theory you could freeze that thing solid and get a pretty cool temp. Let's chalk the I/C as a radiator up as a loss.

Take that CO2 tank, lines, and fogger system, and spray your I/C for your turbo. haha

 

[gettingwop]

I just didnt see a need to modify something that already functions. Some guys run the half sized radiators with no issues. Dont fix it if its not broken

I bet you don't have balance shafts in your engine though.

 

[duwackerTSi69]

Just goes to show you the majority of questions can be answered by the all-mighty Google.

Let me google that for you

Thats a flippin awesome respnse.. And animated too,.. KEEP IT COMING

 

[dsmfa9nutter]

One of the stupidest ideas I have ever heard. Use a radiator as a radiator. Whoever said that water will move too fast to cool is an idiot and has no idea what he's talking about as there's no such thing.

 

[rush2252]

I bet you don't have balance shafts in your engine though.

actually I do. I ran a half sized for quite awhlie. I switched back to the fullsized to utilize both fans whenver I got the A/C system working

 

[Defiant]

I spent two years in Baltimore. There was a bar there I'd tend to hang out in after classes, where I'd enjoy my 151 and listen to the local tales. Every so often, if you could catch him in that twilight between hideously drunk and plain passed-out, there was a regular who told of talking with Babe Ruth's ghost at his birthplace. He told of seeing Edgar Allen Poe by the old Presbyterian Church. He told of drinking with Francis Scott Key, and making up songs about the Flag.
And sometimes, if the hour wasn't too late, he mentioned a place he'd heard of to the west, almost into Ohio. A small, backwater town with odd denizens. Seems they have a well in that town, and when everyone's run out of things to talk about, they drop down a bucket and bring up a load of stupid. Things like asking about using tires for life preservers, and gas tanks as water cisterns, and sunroofed-cars for flower planters, and even..... intercoolers for radiators.

I never realized I was foolish for not believing the old sot's stories.

 

[rush2252]

I spent two years in Baltimore. There was a bar there I'd tend to hang out in after classes, where I'd enjoy my 151 and listen to the local tales. Every so often, if you could catch him in that twilight between hideously drunk and plain passed-out, there was a regular who told of talking with Babe Ruth's ghost at his birthplace. He told of seeing Edgar Allen Poe by the old Presbyterian Church. He told of drinking with Francis Scott Key, and making up songs about the Flag.
And sometimes, if the hour wasn't too late, he mentioned a place he'd heard of to the west, almost into Ohio. A small, backwater town with odd denizens. Seems they have a well in that town, and when everyone's run out of things to talk about, they drop down a bucket and bring up a load of stupid. Things like asking about using tires for life preservers, and gas tanks as water cisterns, and sunroofed-cars for flower planters, and even..... intercoolers for radiators.

I never realized I was foolish for not believing the old sot's stories.

Nice epiphany but somehow I dont think its "tech related" You should probably go ahead and "clean it up" like the you do our's when we make flaming comments... even though this one probably deserved it

cant makes the rules and not play by them now can we?

 

[Lofty]

I spent two years in Baltimore. There was a bar there I'd tend to hang out in after classes, where I'd enjoy my 151 and listen to the local tales. Every so often, if you could catch him in that twilight between hideously drunk and plain passed-out, there was a regular who told of talking with Babe Ruth's ghost at his birthplace. He told of seeing Edgar Allen Poe by the old Presbyterian Church. He told of drinking with Francis Scott Key, and making up songs about the Flag.
And sometimes, if the hour wasn't too late, he mentioned a place he'd heard of to the west, almost into Ohio. A small, backwater town with odd denizens. Seems they have a well in that town, and when everyone's run out of things to talk about, they drop down a bucket and bring up a load of stupid. Things like asking about using tires for life preservers, and gas tanks as water cisterns, and sunroofed-cars for flower planters, and even..... intercoolers for radiators.

I never realized I was foolish for not believing the old sot's stories.

I've missed you, so, so, much.

 

[Defiant]

Epiphany? WTF

 

[laserspeeddemon]

Defiant is the expection to the rule. Think of him as an ambassador in the US. They have an incredible amount of power, yet can not be charged for murder when they drink and drive and kill 2 small girls in DC.