intercooler - Page 2

TheJeanyus · 05-07-2008, 11:23 AM

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Originally Posted by uvbnhad

I don't know what it is Dale's car. What I'm saying is that they are stating you don't have to use any type of special fluid; it can be just water.

So, if they aren't going to be specific - if it took a special oil - then I could say I just put water in my engine instead of oil based on the 'air-to-water' statement?

Oil / Special fluid != water.

Bottom line, I'm just stating they don't specify a special liquid so it can be water; or anti-freeze-water mix.

This is what I've heard more often than air-to-water.

Where are you coming up with a comparisson between oil and water? No one here has said anything about putting oil in an intercooler. It's been a while since Fluid Mechanics, but I'm pretty sure that would be a really bad idea.

You could run only water in an air-to-water intercooler if you weren't worried about it freezing.

uvbnhad · 05-07-2008, 11:40 AM

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Originally Posted by TheJeanyus

Where are you coming up with a comparisson between oil and water? No one here has said anything about putting oil in an intercooler. It's been a while since Fluid Mechanics, but I'm pretty sure that would be a really bad idea.

You could run only water in an air-to-water intercooler if you weren't worried about it freezing.

I'm not comparing oil to water. What I'm trying to explain is that just because it says 'air-to-water' it does not inherently mean you can put anything you want in there. Granted, I have no problems putting anti-freeze in an IC such as Dale's, 'air-to-water' is not a blanket term for all liquids and shouldn't be used as such. If brand X ICs require a certain oil or lubricant or whatever and you dump plain water (or vice versa) you could run into problems.

I may not be disagreeing with Brian as much as disagreeing with the terminology; hence my oil != water comment.

myillwillinc · 05-07-2008, 01:05 PM

how well would it do with liquid nitrogen?

TheJeanyus · 05-07-2008, 01:33 PM

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Originally Posted by myillwillinc

how well would it do with liquid nitrogen?

It would break as soon as a rock or other object hit it going down the road (most likely below the ductile/brittle transition temp!), plus there would be no way to keep the nitrogen liquid without a refrigerator.

rtusnake · 05-07-2008, 05:24 PM

Hey, hey, to much smarts going on in this thread. Just a antifreeze water mix will be fine

stock94 · 05-07-2008, 07:09 PM

Ok, thanks for the help. As I said earlier there will be more questions to come later, all I know about is pushrod motors and jet engines. The car has alot of mods and I gotta call the previous owner to find out what else he did.

rtusnake · 05-07-2008, 10:14 PM

Post some pics up and we can probably point most of them out. Mod motors is right there between pushrods and jet engines though lol. Car looks great from your avatar

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05-07-2008, 07:09 PM	#16
stock94 Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Atlanta, Ga. Posts: 71	intercooler Ok, thanks for the help. As I said earlier there will be more questions to come later, all I know about is pushrod motors and jet engines. The car has alot of mods and I gotta call the previous owner to find out what else he did.

05-07-2008, 10:14 PM	#17
rtusnake Halfshaft Killer Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: The Kingdom Posts: 3,910	Post some pics up and we can probably point most of them out. Mod motors is right there between pushrods and jet engines though lol. Car looks great from your avatar __________________ 03 Cobra 06 F250 (\__/) (='.'=) (")_(")