Hello,

I was wondering if Laminova cores can work in reverse, cooling water with airflow.

For example putting the laminova cores in the intake of a RAM AIR hood to cool coolant.

Or like a radiator fully made up of Laminova cores. Would this be efficient? Would it be too heavy?

This would be to cool the coolant even further in an aftercooled Supercharger setup. It would act as a super efficient heat exchanger for the Laminova cores which are already in the intake manifold for the supercharger.


Has anybody tried this?


Thanx
Brian


Modified by airmaxbri at 8:59 PM 11/15/2007

 

You'd have issues with pressure drop, as the cores are too thick for a non-ducted, non-pressurized environment. Air speed will drop too much.

You'll also run into cost issues, these cores aren't exactly cheap. You'd be better off buying a bunch of $25 heater cores and putting them where you can fit them.

As far as cooling coolant more, you can't get below ambient w/o special means anyways. If you;re getting near ambient with the system's radiator, passing it through another won't help. You'd just be adding cooling capacity in case somehow 500F air was being drawn into your throttle body.