Like the topic says..

I am working on a four banger project. Being reliable is number 1 to me only second to performance. Are they any drawbacks to using one on a daily driven street car? I have never used one before but they have come WAY down in price and chiseled has some fine looking tanks. Any thoughts on the subject are greatly appreciated!

 

my mach 1 uses the vortech air to water setup. 471 horses on the stock bottom end.

 

Where did you pick up a heat exhanger from?

 

any! 03 cobra, trans cooler, summit racing etc. just a finned set of tubes!

 

There's one on the MR2 here at work. It works better than an air to air on a mid engined car, but not quite as well as the air to air setups in front engined cars we've built or tuned as it has a bit more of a tendency to heat soak.

 

I run a 5 gallan water tank in the trunk and the water will get fairly warm after a while. As others have mentioned throw in a heat exchanger somewhere and run the largest water tank possible.

 

Now I just have to figure out where to put the intercooler istself....I really don't want it in the car.

 

I remember reading somewhere about using an AC cooler but am not sure how that would work.

 

Get one off of a lightning.

 

I would not use any type of heat exchanger as mentioned above. An oil cooler has thicker walls to handle higher pressures that costs you some efficiency. Use something constructed like a radiator like a small radiator.

 

We've had real good luck with ours, 5 gallon fuel cell in the trunk, stock cobra heat exchanger, cobra water pump and a cheap ebay cooler in the fender. We've made 740 so far and the car is driven alot and were in florida.

john

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E bay $160
will support 1001RWHP with AIT of 56.9d
I test mine daily

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How large of a tank are you using? Are you using an ebay pump as well? Are you using a heat exchanger?

 

I wonder how a rad off an inline 4 street bike like a GSXR 1000 would work?

 

the stock cobra ones work great and they almost give them away....i paid 20 for mine and it has 3/4 hose ends on it. It also fits in the front bumper nice, we have 2 small fans on it.

john

 

another idea for a compact heat exchanger would be a heater core, depending on your app you could even run twin heater cores, would be very functional and look cool in place of where the fog lights would be on a gt bumper. dam i just gave my self an idea.

 

http://www.chiseledperformance.net/watertanks.htm
Have this one custom made to my specs

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I run one in my daily driver. It uses a Lightning heat exchanger and pump with a custom tank.