Jump to content

Plaz Vs Process West


collierj

Recommended Posts

  • Moar Powar Babeh
  • Lifetime Members
  • Member For: 19y 1m 21d
  • Gender: Male
  • Location: Perth

Certainly goes both ways. That's why I wanna see multiple back to back runs I guess it's pretty hard given the time it takes to swap coolers over

What do we all want from our brakes? Maximum kinetic to heat conversion capacity. Heat comes from friction, it's absorbed by the heavy steel discs and the dissipated.

Turbo squeezes the air, generates heat, (for a street driven) car do you want a large ally chunk that can absorb that heat energy and disapate it, or do you want a thinner chunk of ally that comes saturated with heat prematurely and then returns it to the charge air?

I'm not saying bar and plate is better than tube and fin, just there's a great deal more too it than just construction type.

I personally have changed from a nizpro tube and fine to a nizpro bar and plate with no other mods than cooler and the ability to absorb heater was much higher(I have data logs that show the reduced increase in it after wot runs.) , but the mass of the cooler was higher so it really cancelled out the construction type.

  • Like 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Menace
  • Donating Members
  • Member For: 13y 6m 23d
  • Gender: Male
  • Location: Sydney

My 1000hp plaz was seeing 46+ on a 25deg day pulling 4th gear (manual) on the dyno at 19 down to 17psi.

Fitted some water jets for now until I can grab a PW3

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Donating Members
  • Member For: 11y 10m
  • Gender: Male

Been building custom intercoolers for 20+ years. A heavier core is not as efficient as a lighter core full stop. If you have the slightest grasp on thermal dynamics its not hard to see why. If you warm a piece of 10mm ally and a 2mm piece it is obvious that the thinner piece cools faster, same with cores. A heavy bar and plate will draw large amounts of thermal energy early in the piece due to the mass, good. However once this mass of aluminum has heat soaked it simply cannot transfer its thermal energy quick enough for efficient reduction of intake charge temps. Normally we see bar and plates fall over after several hard full power pulls on the rollers where a much lighter tube and fin is way more consistant run after run. I am yet to ever see any bar and plate ever beat a good light weight tube n fin core, ever. Once I see it with my own eyes im converted as unless its lighter with a higher internal surface area it goes against the laws of thermal dynamics. Same principle goes for heavy cast tanks

Kind regards Jon

  • Like 4
Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Moar Powar Babeh
  • Lifetime Members
  • Member For: 19y 1m 21d
  • Gender: Male
  • Location: Perth

Jon, what have you seen in applications where you don't have a dyno fan consistently providing large amount of ambient air to remove heat from the cooler? Ie stop/start traffic conditions?

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Donating Members
  • Member For: 11y 10m
  • Gender: Male

Jon, what have you seen in applications where you don't have a dyno fan consistently providing large amount of ambient air to remove heat from the cooler? Ie stop/start traffic conditions?

We have tested on road conditions, off road conditions, high traffic, high loads on road as well as dyno. Front mounted systems, topmounted systems, fan forced topmounted systems etc etc. Still yet to see a bar n plate have a better outcome. Also did fair bit of RnD with PWR with their new wind tunnel used for F1. They can run varible boost and varible intake charge and ambient temps. Quite a massive techy piece of equipment. Think it was concieved for RedBulls F1 intercooler requirements for the new Turbocharger regs of F1.

Btw, PWR sell a good intercooler temp gauge for monitering before and after cooler temps. Made by Davtronics in USA. A very handy tool for above analysis

Kind regards Jon

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
  • Create New...
'