Post turbo water cooler
Discussion
That is a great mod,same with mine, after shutting down you can hear the heated water
in the turbo water pipes, which cant be a good thing.
could you post up what size rad you put in.
maybe I can put a electric water pump to run the water round the rad for a while
aftr shutting down
great mod
in the turbo water pipes, which cant be a good thing.
could you post up what size rad you put in.
maybe I can put a electric water pump to run the water round the rad for a while
aftr shutting down
great mod
Hi Steve, I tried to source a standard radiator but couldn't, the closest one was a Rotax Max cart rad but had a cap, I drew this one and got Pro-Alloy to make it. An electric pump will be difficult unless you propose to circulate the whole cooling system, then the issue would be finding a convenient place to put it that wouldn't interfere with normal running, I think this will be effective and the best compromise.
I wouldn't bother with the extra rad (as all that does is to mean the main water radiator at the front of the car is doing less work) but just add a small run-on electric pump in the turbo water feed line. Use a timer relay to keep that running for say 1min after key-off and your done! ;-)
Adrian W said:
Max_Torque said:
I wouldn't bother with the extra rad (as all that does is to mean the main water radiator at the front of the car is doing less work) but just add a small run-on electric pump in the turbo water feed line. Use a timer relay to keep that running for say 1min after key-off and your done! ;-)
Either you didn't read my first post or you are just talking rubbish, Thinking about it, have you ever actually looked at a Noble?
Looks great Adrian,
Keep the drawings on file, I may end up doing the same to my car over winter, what we also need is an oil cooler for the turbo's before it returns to the sump!!!
Not sure why anyone would want to add an additional pump to the system, 1. something else to break/leak or cause a restriction when not in use 2. the engines current pump will work fine.
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Keep the drawings on file, I may end up doing the same to my car over winter, what we also need is an oil cooler for the turbo's before it returns to the sump!!!
Not sure why anyone would want to add an additional pump to the system, 1. something else to break/leak or cause a restriction when not in use 2. the engines current pump will work fine.
G
Hollowpockets said:
Looks great Adrian,
Keep the drawings on file, I may end up doing the same to my car over winter, what we also need is an oil cooler for the turbo's before it returns to the sump!!!
Not sure why anyone would want to add an additional pump to the system, 1. something else to break/leak or cause a restriction when not in use 2. the engines current pump will work fine.
G
Hi Graham, Pro alloy have the drawings now, I reckon fitting will take less than an hour. With any luck it should do away with the need for a catch tank on track.Keep the drawings on file, I may end up doing the same to my car over winter, what we also need is an oil cooler for the turbo's before it returns to the sump!!!
Not sure why anyone would want to add an additional pump to the system, 1. something else to break/leak or cause a restriction when not in use 2. the engines current pump will work fine.
G
GTO600 said:
I'm in the pump camp I'm afraid & know exactly how l want to do it & where / how to best plumb it in but haven't got round to finding the right pump etc so hats off for developing another solution 
+1.Surely, the problem you seek to address, Adrian, is caused by coolant sitting in the turbo water jackets after the engine has shut down and getting boiled.
The extra rad may dissipate some of the heat from the water/steam but isn't really addressing the root cause of the problem without also getting some extra flow in the system?
A small electric pump to move the water with a timer/temp switch is surely the answer, if you can sort the plumbing out? The pump doesn't want to run when the engine is running and so needs to be in a bypass pipe of course.
That's the way my elderly Porsche is set up and it works perfectly. The pump is tiny, no bigger than a screen washer pump, but so is the pipework to circulate the coolant.
GTO600 said:
Hi Adrain, were you in OZ when you took the pics 
I'm in the pump camp I'm afraid & know exactly how l want to do it & where / how to best plumb it in but haven't got round to finding the right pump etc so hats off for developing another solution
Hi Kevin, they are all the right way up in pbucket, every time I log on here they change.I'm in the pump camp I'm afraid & know exactly how l want to do it & where / how to best plumb it in but haven't got round to finding the right pump etc so hats off for developing another solution
The cooler isn't to cool while the car is cooling down, it's to cool the super heated water before it goes back into the main system, on track mine can pump steam back into the header tank, I've seen other cars doing it as well.
im with Adrian on this one.
i designed and tested a system over 10 years ago, back in the cosworth day.i should have been flattered when the company ( a very big core manufacturer in the uk) who were making my radiator cores, copied my idea.shame as mine was featured in two ford magazines months before they tried to launch their product.
mine was independantly tested and data logged on a cosworth and an rs turbo showing significantly lowering water temps after exiting the turbo..
the rad/s im using on my noble are not only super efficient ,but quite cheap in comparison to some out there.
this was a mod i was going to do when i first got my car over 5 years ago, but got side tracked with all the other mods and carbon fetish.
it works and works well.
just my pennys worth!!!
i designed and tested a system over 10 years ago, back in the cosworth day.i should have been flattered when the company ( a very big core manufacturer in the uk) who were making my radiator cores, copied my idea.shame as mine was featured in two ford magazines months before they tried to launch their product.
mine was independantly tested and data logged on a cosworth and an rs turbo showing significantly lowering water temps after exiting the turbo..the rad/s im using on my noble are not only super efficient ,but quite cheap in comparison to some out there.
this was a mod i was going to do when i first got my car over 5 years ago, but got side tracked with all the other mods and carbon fetish.
it works and works well.
just my pennys worth!!!
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