Using a front mount intercooler as a RADIATOR ?

[tinkerbell]

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how/where does this symbol come from?

[Jim]

how/where does this symbol come from?

it's a mathematica symbol meaning "Does Not Equal", derived from the equals sign, which in turn came about from mathematics first devised by the mesopotanians. HTH

[tinkerbell]

thanks Jim, that helps immensely, however, as a follow-up do you know how to make it appear on my screen when I am using a keyboard and a computer?

i have tried to use telekinesis, but have failed so far, and i hate the use of !=

[Billzilla]

≠ ≠ ≠

[TT]

tinkerbell
try using words.
eg

does
not
equal

Type them all on one line in that order (top to bottom) with a single space between them.
You should end up with this.

does not equal

this should prevent you from having to use retarded characters in place of words.

hope that helps

[Billzilla]

ῳ ῳ ῳ

Eeew ...

[Grunt]

tinkerbell
try using words.
eg

the ironing is good

[tinkerbell]

OK - but where is the ≠ button?

[Billzilla]

OK - but where is the ≠ button?

Find CHARMAP on your computer and have a look around there, it'll be there as well as many other symbols.

[Mr Ed]

Does anyone know how I do a ° symbol? Oh hey, I just did one nevermind.

[AussieN14]

It works fine. Just do it. What do you think PWR cores are when you buy them. Air, oil and water are all the same cores. I still have a 68mm PWR core as a radiator and it's 10 years old and cools great in the racecar.

Always makes me laugh the haters that have never tried something and just bag it straight away. Some people on here need to go experience things more before bashing the keyboard.

i had a PWR front mount IC and a PWR radiator in my SSS.

Very very very different cores. IC had larger tubes and the tubes had their own internal fins as well as the external fins between the tubes. Radiator had waaaaaay more tubes, each very thin and just the external fins. Strangely enough the IC core looked like every other IC core and the radiator looked like a standard radiator core, only thicker and shiny :D

[0x2DLVR]

Yeah cause engineers for every car manufacturer in the world obviously know less than you and have no idea about the thermodynamics or flow properties of stuff they stick in production cars.

You want a radiator, buy a radiator. Its not a 1912 Austin Humpty Supercharged Quadrofoil he is sticking a HKS ricer part in (I assume anyway) so go buy the one that fits and spend the savings on coke and hookers.

So you are the voice of engineers from every car manufacture in the world are you?

You can't compare what they do vs aftermarket. They have to keep to other restrictions like cost and size. They don't bother using some great engineering feat of a radiator when a small cheap item will more than do the job.

As I said I have done it. He asked if it would work. The answer is yes. I'm not taking guesses or trying to compare car manufacturers to aftermarket. I'm talking real world testing. I used 68mm PWR tube and fin intercooler core for radiator, intercooler and oil cooler. I had to block the oil cooler on the race track in colder weather it worked so well and cooler weather the water temps would drop down to just below 80 degrees. Intercooler would drop 90 degrees across the core. I'd say that's a pretty good real world example of this working.

[0x2DLVR]

i had a PWR front mount IC and a PWR radiator in my SSS.

Very very very different cores. IC had larger tubes and the tubes had their own internal fins as well as the external fins between the tubes. Radiator had waaaaaay more tubes, each very thin and just the external fins. Strangely enough the IC core looked like every other IC core and the radiator looked like a standard radiator core, only thicker and shiny :D

I bet that was all purpose made for the car and the application. Not just ordering a 68mm core of a certain size and making the tanks yourself though. I should of added that bit in. But in the end they OP question was does it work. Well the answer is yes

[Billzilla]

So you are the voice of engineers from every car manufacture in the world are you?

You can't compare what they do vs aftermarket. They have to keep to other restrictions like cost and size. They don't bother using some great engineering feat of a radiator when a small cheap item will more than do the job.

As I said I have done it. He asked if it would work. The answer is yes. I'm not taking guesses or trying to compare car manufacturers to aftermarket. I'm talking real world testing. I used 68mm PWR tube and fin intercooler core for radiator, intercooler and oil cooler. I had to block the oil cooler on the race track in colder weather it worked so well and cooler weather the water temps would drop down to just below 80 degrees. Intercooler would drop 90 degrees across the core. I'd say that's a pretty good real world example of this working.

It no doubt does work well enough but due to the very different flow rates and densities of water and air to get the most from a heat exchanger you need slightly different designs for the transfer tubes. Yes you need as much surface area as you can get on the cooling fins so they mostly look the same in that area.
It's not really my area but I suspect this is why an air intercooler has larger diameter/volume tubes through the core than a water or oil radiator does.

[Mr Ed]

I would have thought the difference might be more to do with the required flow rates for each use as opposed to fluid properties, flow being arguably more important for an intercooler than a radiator. Smaller tubes are going to have greater surface, so will cool better but flow less. Someone has probably done some testing and decided that the bigger tubes, although providing less cooling capability, are a worthwhile trade off to increase flow when being used for an intercooler.