Maybe I don't understand the wrapping with tape to keep heat out thing, but if it does not go into the item you wrap, where does it go? back into the unwrapped area?Ie.. engine? I understand wrapping headers etc.. but I think the AMG engineers were smart enough to make the supercharger and other parts aluminum so they could dessipate heat. No need for wrap, could it make it worse? I think so.. No one whom has added a heat exchanger, intercooler pump or any cooling mod has had a better time than some of us who added nothing ie. needswings, distantpulse, chi-town, me and so on, is it a waste of time, I don't know yet. But I think ice on the s/c in between runs is as efficient at a dollar per trip to the track, day to day driving it's irrelevant. Just some of my opinions, not proven yet! This only pertains to drag racers, not road racing, that may be different.
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The engineers built our car to be an all around good performer. We, are trying to make it a fast drag car and others a road course car. Now while the original architecture will do both well, its not made specifically for either. You can argue that while it is good enginnering for space saving and compactness it is terrible for hot weather performance when drag racing is involved. Lets face it, the intercooler is small 1, 2 it is sandwiched between a hot supercharger and engine (not optimal for cooling). If you drive these cars in the winter they feel about 30hp stronger than in the the heat. The car feels every bit as strong as the advertised 330hp and even more in the winter. Brianbraves idea of wrapping the intercooler and such seems to work for the intial heat soack problem and keeping coolant temps low for most driving, but as he stated it takes longer to get hotter temps but longer to dissipate after they are up. if he could find a way to add fans to the larger HE, he might have something there IMO.
The engineers built our car to be an all around good performer. We, are trying to make it a fast drag car and others a road course car. Now while the original architecture will do both well, its not made specifically for either. You can argue that while it is good enginnering for space saving and compactness it is terrible for hot weather performance when drag racing is involved. Lets face it, the intercooler is small 1, 2 it is sandwiched between a hot supercharger and engine (not optimal for cooling). If you drive these cars in the winter they feel about 30hp stronger than in the the heat. The car feels every bit as strong as the advertised 330hp and even more in the winter. Brianbraves idea of wrapping the intercooler and such seems to work for the intial heat soack problem and keeping coolant temps low for most driving, but as he stated it takes longer to get hotter temps but longer to dissipate after they are up. if he could find a way to add fans to the larger HE, he might have something there IMO.
I agree 100%, but strictly talking drag racing, would'nt it be more effective to just put a bag of ice on the s/c between runs? And #2 if the heat is trapped in the intercooler because it has a blanket around it how can it dissapate efffectivly once it has built up? I am just asking because this stuff is new to me not trying to diss anyone's projects.
I was thinking of buying a sheet of phenolic material, cutting it down to size and trying sandwich it between the bottom of the intercooler and the top of the engine. Do you think it would be possible or helpful? I'm figuring the spacer will soak up some of the heat and and the intercooler can still dissipate heat since its not wrapped. I don't know much about cooling either, but I do know our cooling system is the key to unhandcuffing some significant lost power.
Not a bad idea since the heat can dissipate either up or down the path of least resistence and it won't be trapped! I think some kind of fan might be a good answer, moving the air away from vital parts? Maybe a small electric fan behind the engine pulling instead of pushing.
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