Cooler Comparison

[Full Monty]

Back to back 4 power runs in a row, and measure inlet temps, core temp, end tank temps.

Make it consistant, so car must be at full operating temp for the first run, with equal spacing in between each pull..

also the driver comes into the equation, must apply throttle in the same way for each test and hold power for a predetermined time.

I think track testing brings in a few variables, such as driver, driving style etc

If you can get a driver to run super consistant lap times then this would be a possibility, but I think on a dyno would be easier.

[O2STOCK]

Gonna be bloody hard to do a test if we cannot even decide what to test or how. Excuse my ignorance as I really only have the vaugest idea of what a IC does, but is there not some kind of machine that could at high pressure blow hot gases IE air into one side and measurements be taken at the otherside. This would be equal for all IC's.

Scotty

Yes its on the Drivers side of your engine bay

[Kimberley Scott]

Sorry I dont understand.

Scotty

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the turbo scotty

[Kimberley Scott]

Without sounding completely blonde Ok I get it, but I want an external machine so testing can contain as little variables as possible. Surely people that Make IC's have asomething like this.

Scotty

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[Adam]

I don't really see how this would work.

The tune is going to have to be changed for all of the coolers. That then opens a can of worms up to differences in the tune. That will also drag out the process. I doubt it could all be done in a day.

Senna, I wouldn't be offering my car up to have a handful of different coolers bolted to it and then get stuck straight into power runs...

It could get very messy.

Is there such a thing as a test bench for intercoolers that will measure flow, pressure drop and inlet/outlet temps?

[Kimberley Scott]

You put it a better way, but that's what I was asking.

Scotty

[Adam]

Sorry Scotty, I didn't read all of the thread before posting.

[SavageF6]

PLEASE!! Can everyone please stop dancing around the real issue here??? Theres only one true way to test for the best IC. Sat night cruise down Chapel St. in Melb. The one that pulls the biggest crowd at maccas afterward = the win.

The can be only one.