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[VXT Tim]

 

it depends on what you want the IC will be good enough for stg 4 on the road but I have my doubts that you can get enough air flow for hard track work no matter how efficent the core is. If you do the numbers to drop the charge for 300bhp from 110'C to 40'C will reject 17.6kW. With a 90% effictive IC, an air temp of 20'C and assuming the open area of the ear is 0.03m2 then the air through it need to be 60 mph. Which given the dirty air the ear gets it will need the car to be traveling much faster to get that flow and thats before you even get to where the 17.6kW of heat goes.  

Just realised anwersing the SC CC post, I got my efficiency term upside down it actually needs an air velicity of 92mph through the ear!

 

[siztenboots]

 

A bit hot, not too bad. You will be getting some retard over 50-55 degrees from what i've heard.

Lots of boost...basically 2 bar peak.

 

 

 

not sure you really want boost spikes at 30+psi , normally the map should limit this to ~20psi .

[Winstar]

That's interesting thanks.
I used to be in auto engineering too (engine design / FEA then ran an engineering consultancy for a few years).
I assume the intercooler drag would make a big difference to the mass air flow through the duct and through the intercooler - do you have a view?

below are the numbers from the model, the blockage of the IC would reduce the flow rate through there quite a lot how much would depend on the design and how much actually went through the cooler and how much could leak around.

With ears
Ear flow rate - 0.66 kg/s

I've worked in FEA and CFD since graduating 12 years ago I did do automotive but I sold out and have done oil and gas for the last 4.

[Exmantaa]

 

 

With thanks to Winstar my charge intake temps have dropped from nearly 100degrees constant to 45 peak and astonishingly quick recovery rates.

 

 

Did I miss a thread / link? I know you upped the coolant flow with a massive pump and big dia waterhoses.

 

 

Chargecooling is now on top of our list since we measured 87*C IAT's on the Zolder circuit with a Harrop charger and PA cooler up front... (And that was not full beans out and the big 3.15" SC puley.)

 

Next will be some extensive in & out water T-measurements, but most likely this will show that the coolant water only gets luke warm after the Laminova's.

[VXT Tim]

Winstar (if you can be arsed or know already) how much more effective is the exige style roof scoop that feeds down to the air to air IC.

 

I know the front of the exige is different to the vx and so airflow to the scoop entrance will be slightly different but is it that much more effective?

Lotus, ESmotorsport (the pic i posted) Newey and the Red Bull exige all think/know it is.

[cnrandall]

Roof scoop is a terrible place to get an air feed from... The air going over the roof is straight out of the front rads and pre-heated.

[chris]

Charge cooler is not a fatality with hipower, it is always possible to improve the situation ...

 

Giant intercooler :

 

 

 

Additional lower scoop

 

 

 

upper air extractor !

 

 

 

 

 

[NDT]

The other thing that's interesting is sizing of the CC rad at the front.

For a race duty cycle (high load a lot of the time) a large rad is obviously needed - I would expect (and obviously haven't done the sums) that the system would reach quasi steady-state fairly quickly,. limited by the rad's ability to reject heat.

For a road duty cycle load is going to be far more intermittent; the system probably won't ever reach it's peak quasi steady state temp as you won't be able to sustain continuous high loads for long enough to get there. So provided there's enough water in the system the CC rad can be smaller.

 

I like the idea of things being easy - like a CC rad small enough to fit without removing the front clam...

Or one which could live in the ear on the left hand side?

[jameso]

Thought the whole point of CC was so you could have a bigger cross-sectional area where air passed through it? So to use the ear you might as well just have an intercooler?

[JohnTurbo]

Ageed...would only make sense on sc cars.

[NDT]

Thought the whole point of CC was so you could have a bigger cross-sectional area where air passed through it? So to use the ear you might as well just have an intercooler?

correct - but I'm talking about a CC as well as the existing IC.

Or two ICs - but then the inlet tract gets a bit longer.

[mbes2]

Probably need the ignition charted as well, as that's what the ECU will have backed off when/if the heat got too much.

 

 

I re checked (hoping I dont need to go specsavers) but couldn't spot [color=rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;]ignition status listed for the Torque app (well not showing output at least)[/color]

[siztenboots]

ign timing is there , and I have it working on the scanguage too , now if torque could read the knock sensor and datalog it

[siztenboots]

sorry Mark, was that torque you used to log the boost TMAP sensor as that usually doesn't work , so would be handy to know

[mbes2]

sorry Mark, was that torque you used to log the boost TMAP sensor as that usually doesn't work , so would be handy to know

I used a obd2 Bluetooth via a HTC running Torque Pro I don't think my car boosts to 30psi... As never seen anything over 25psi on the gauge in the cockpit

Edited by mbes2, 13 June 2013 - 01:24 PM.

[mbes2]

speaking with john, the output looks good, as its running temps as per a std tubby setup... So proving the larger mmg intercooler is working... As my car is not std... So I'm happy... Ideally, next time , data captured on a hot day.... Might give different reading, but the output graph was from my last session, to which the car was already hot.

[JohnTurbo]

Indeed it ran more like 60degrees max in earlier sessions. I was never convinced by my boost readings on torque. I miss my nissans defi gauges with peak hold and alarms.

[GeorgeBC]

Good on you for logging and posting the data Mark. Looks good to me i saw higher temps than that, do continue to log them on hot days. Stage 2 turbos on the standard ic run a LOT hotter than that.

[JohnTurbo]

Yes - this is it, i'd be more not less tempted by the IC option having seen that. I'd have put a tenner on IAT over 100degrees peak.

 

Its certainly true that there is room for improvement, but i bet the stock PA system (certainly pre revision) is not miles different.

 

Of course what really WOULD benefit the forum is someone being brave enough to find that out! /Nudge.

 

Thermal management is a problem all of us (esp forced induction) share.

[GeorgeBC]

I saw 50 degrees at oulton in november from the latest revision pa cc so could easily believe you would see 60 degrees in mid summer on a hot day. Can't log my temps anymore as I don't use the same map sensor and can't use a scangauge or anything that connects to the obd port. Would love to see some data though from a similar spec car as Marks on the same day round the same track.