Bestwestranger
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- Sep 24, 2003
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Cotter,
Arkansas
To make a long story as short as possible, my buddy and I have a huge ic that came out of an equally huge motorhome. Its approx. 4' x 2' x 4". Its bar and plate, and the end tanks have rubber grommets so that all you have to do is cut the supports @ the top and bottom, and pull the tanks off the cores. Yeah, there are two cores. We plan to section this and make front mounts for our dsm's. He has a freind that is a fab man, and he will build a pair for us for $100.
What we want to know is; instead of the conventional "in one side, out the other", would it be of any gain to have him build them double decker style so it would be "in one side, out the same side"? What I mean by that is to essentially have two intercoolers, one directly on top of the other, sharing tanks. The in/out tank would have a partition in the middle to seperate them, and the opposite end tank would basicaly be an elbow, directing the air from the top tank to the bottom. The cores would obviously be long and skinny. The thinking is that the air would be cooled by the first run, then cooled even more on the second run. The only problem I can see is that the cores themselves may end up being too small and too restrictive.
This was just an idea that was thrown out, and we would like to see what "those who know about these kind of things think about this kind of thing".
Thanks guys!
What we want to know is; instead of the conventional "in one side, out the other", would it be of any gain to have him build them double decker style so it would be "in one side, out the same side"? What I mean by that is to essentially have two intercoolers, one directly on top of the other, sharing tanks. The in/out tank would have a partition in the middle to seperate them, and the opposite end tank would basicaly be an elbow, directing the air from the top tank to the bottom. The cores would obviously be long and skinny. The thinking is that the air would be cooled by the first run, then cooled even more on the second run. The only problem I can see is that the cores themselves may end up being too small and too restrictive.
This was just an idea that was thrown out, and we would like to see what "those who know about these kind of things think about this kind of thing".
Thanks guys!