Post by Area 907 on Jan 2, 2011 14:30:22 GMT -9
Sooooo....I was looking at this beast of an engine (video below) and got to wondering about intercooling. After reading that several more ProMods are going to be running turbos in 2011 (including a new car by Roger Burgess since Brad Personett's record setting success in getting his turbo's dialed in) I'm trying to understand a little more about the set up in drag racing application and what would be needed/required.
Questions:
1.Air or water intercooling are typical for turbos but is this used if the engine is set up for drag racing? What info I found on street turbos stated liquid was the best & immediate cooling type. I was looking at a few pics of the pro mods/ doorslammers that are running turbos but I can't follow the piping to see where they lead so I can't figure this one out.
2.If liquid cooling, would this typically be a separate cooling system with an electric pump and heat exchanger mounted...
and what type of liquid media would you use if so???
Note: There is some use of colorful metaphors around 9:05...he gets a little excited while on the dyno...with reason.
Monster 2200 HP NRE TT 632(10.3 L) BBC. Tom Nelson.
Questions:
1.Air or water intercooling are typical for turbos but is this used if the engine is set up for drag racing? What info I found on street turbos stated liquid was the best & immediate cooling type. I was looking at a few pics of the pro mods/ doorslammers that are running turbos but I can't follow the piping to see where they lead so I can't figure this one out.
2.If liquid cooling, would this typically be a separate cooling system with an electric pump and heat exchanger mounted...
and what type of liquid media would you use if so???
Note: There is some use of colorful metaphors around 9:05...he gets a little excited while on the dyno...with reason.
Monster 2200 HP NRE TT 632(10.3 L) BBC. Tom Nelson.
