Hey guys, I have taken many measures to keep engine bay temps down, but wanted to see if there were any other little secrets or something you might be aware of.

I have (full-race kit):

Coated downpipe, turbo, anodized intercooler, charge pipes, pwr radiator & fan.

I am running coolant lines to the turbo (fast-turbo's set up).

I am not entirely sure I can do a whole lot more besides spray nitrous or compressed air onto the intercooler. Thoughts?

 

im not so sure spraying anything in the intercooler will affect coolant temps. maybe IATs

what makes you think that you need to do more? are you overheating? what are your current coolant temps? are you reading from an aftermarket gauge? more info please

 

right now the car is on jack stands and motor ripped apart getting built. Im just planning for the worst. Sprayin the IC and decreasing IAT's would help keep the temp of the motor temp down, hence keeping the coolant temps down....at least I would think?

 

distilled water

Water-Wetter

 

Hondata gasket........ You should be good to go.......

 

make sure you have a shroud on the fan for your rad and make sure you direct the air to the rad as in close off the area to the left of the rad so that it makes all the air go through it not to your engine bay. Also could try using a different coolant such as Evan's Waterless coolant.

 

what is this Evans Waterless Coolant you speak of?

 

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I am actually running a outlaw engineering gasket...they are a little thicker than Hondata and a little more durable. Hondatas have been known to crack.

 

well its stuff that i found out about from Ken's Kustom Chasis here in PA...the guy t hat built Chris Rado's first cars, but its the stuff they use and its some interesting stuff. but there is no water in it, but you can't use it for drag racing from what i know b/c most tracks make you use only water since antifreeze gets so slippery when spilled on the track.http://www.evanscooling.com/catalog/C_npg1.htm, k never mind it seems you can use it for racing . so i guess it would work better then most!

 

there is only two ways to cool the engine internal and external.
1 massive air to oil .. oil is more efficent at tranfering the heat from the internal heat build up.of the conecting parts.
2 larger (more rows) radaitor with a 50/50 mix. if you do not live in freeze zone then dilute 70/30 water anitfreeze. the water jackets in/on the pistion sleves are really to prevent the walls from melting. that is why all turbos will have a seperate oil cooler.
as for spraying the intercooler.. DON'T it will cause corrision and thermal shock .. today IC are very good and very efficent if you need more cooling get a bigger IC.