Well whenm i bought my truck back in dec, i noticed that the stock lower CCHE was missing and the previous owner had installed an a/c condensor in front of the rad to act as the heat exchanger for the IC, well it works so so, some days are better than others, i still have the stock upper and 3/4 heater hose with a johnson pump that i dont think is doing much.
Anyways, im in the middle of redoing the complete system, im going to add a 5 gallon tank to add some much needed reserve to the stock system, i also like the idea of a front mount heat exchanger rather than have it under the truck, and well i found a huge engine oil cooler on ebay for 145 bucks shipped that measures 28.5 x 18.5 x 1.5 and has -12an fittings on the in/out. heres a pic of it
As you can see its a crossflow design and a double pass, so this thing should get rid of some heat pretty easy. Im also going to have the stock hose fittings on the stock upper cut off and some -12an male fittings welded on and run all -12 hose, and will have a couple shut off valves so that at the track i can remove the FMCCHE from the loop and just run the water from the water tank to the upper IC and fill the tank with ICE. That should make for some seriuosly cold IAT's.
One of my questins is can the heat exchanger be to big? I mean is this total overkill and also i think if this can cool oil, than it should work great for flowing water.
My second question is about the pump, im looking at getting a universal meziere pump that has a single in and single out that flows 20 GPM at 12 voltsand wanted to ask if this was to much pump? or is there such a thing as to much pump? The pump runs 175 from summit, and ihave looked at some rv type pumps, but cant really find anything that flows anything more than 2-3 GPM, and that just seems way to low to be effective to me.
Any input and or suggestions and or comments are welcome.
Anyways, im in the middle of redoing the complete system, im going to add a 5 gallon tank to add some much needed reserve to the stock system, i also like the idea of a front mount heat exchanger rather than have it under the truck, and well i found a huge engine oil cooler on ebay for 145 bucks shipped that measures 28.5 x 18.5 x 1.5 and has -12an fittings on the in/out. heres a pic of it
As you can see its a crossflow design and a double pass, so this thing should get rid of some heat pretty easy. Im also going to have the stock hose fittings on the stock upper cut off and some -12an male fittings welded on and run all -12 hose, and will have a couple shut off valves so that at the track i can remove the FMCCHE from the loop and just run the water from the water tank to the upper IC and fill the tank with ICE. That should make for some seriuosly cold IAT's.
One of my questins is can the heat exchanger be to big? I mean is this total overkill and also i think if this can cool oil, than it should work great for flowing water.
My second question is about the pump, im looking at getting a universal meziere pump that has a single in and single out that flows 20 GPM at 12 voltsand wanted to ask if this was to much pump? or is there such a thing as to much pump? The pump runs 175 from summit, and ihave looked at some rv type pumps, but cant really find anything that flows anything more than 2-3 GPM, and that just seems way to low to be effective to me.
Any input and or suggestions and or comments are welcome.
