high water temp?

[jhandy]

OK, I know this sounds silly, so dont cut me down all at once.

You know the oil cooler heatsink on the drivers side of the motor behind the intake manifold? What if I rigged something like a super duper fan onto the oil cooler kind of like a hopped up CPU freon self contained system. It would not be hard to do, but is it practicle ? It would be fun.....

[Lil bastard]

Originally Posted by jhandy

OK, I know this sounds silly, so dont cut me down all at once.

You know the oil cooler heatsink on the drivers side of the motor behind the intake manifold? What if I rigged something like a super duper fan onto the oil cooler kind of like a hopped up CPU freon self contained system. It would not be hard to do, but is it practicle ? It would be fun.....

I think it would be doable, but would there be any benefit? You'd need a pretty hefty, all-weather, fan to do it.

I think it'd be more effective to have some kind of ducting to redirect air to it.

Either from under the car (I believe the underpanels already do some of this) , or as a 'take off' from either the air intake or the engine bay side vent.

Even then, I wonder if the heat exchanger isn't 'maxed out' already and getting all the airflow it can handle.

Interesting concept though.

[Cloudsurfer]

I've thought of running Evans in street cars before, and have used it on race bikes over the years with good results. Problem seems to be that it has less specific heat capacity than water does, though it does boil at a far higher point. Either way, it would be a decent size project to get ALL the water out of the system prior to filling with Evans. It's a pain on a bike so I imagine it'd be a big pain on a car (esp a mid engine car with rads up front).

As to the oil cooler, I think the solution is not to direct more air to the laminar cooler, but rather get rid of the cooler and just run the oil to a "normal" air/oil unit so that the coolant now only has to cool the engine, with the oil being cooled by its own cooler.