[awill4x4]

Originally Posted by matt.mcinnes

His welding is second to none the guy is a genius.
I would not take my welding any where else.

Aw shucks Matt you're making me blush.
I've just welded up a big Garrett 4.5" thick cored air to air going on a big horsepower RB30 engined Commodore and that came up very nice too.
Regards Andrew.

[matt.mcinnes]

Well DJB excelled himself again, My sliders, rock, my wide mouth winch, rocks and now the 4 way splitters for the water supply to the intercooler are space age





Also some interesting reading for Laminova all be it in a Mazda MX5

http://www.kennebell.net/techinfo/ma...no-results.pdf

[matt.mcinnes]

Intercooler is mounted just the pipe work to complete.

[matt.mcinnes]

Done, just need to swap the water fittings to 90 degree ones.






Now for cooling the intercooler.

[Tapage]

Looking pretty clean .. congrats dude .. very impresive job.

[Dougal]

Looks great.
But that corrugated hose from the intercooler to the throttlebody, is that needed for movement of parts?
A smooth hose would give a lot less turbulence to the flow.

[matt.mcinnes]

Originally Posted by Dougal

Looks great.
But that corrugated hose from the intercooler to the throttlebody, is that needed for movement of parts?
A smooth hose would give a lot less turbulence to the flow.

The hose is just for set up awaiting one with a custom bend in smooth silicon.

[matt.mcinnes]

Wiring for the air temp sensor is done Monday will see me pick up the 90 degree hose tail water fittings water fittings.

Then all I need to do is mount the radiator, water pump and connect the lines.

Dyno is booked for the 19th May

[_Mitcho_]

hey matt

that motor is awesome, well done!!

[matt.mcinnes]

Originally Posted by Dougal

Looks great.
But that corrugated hose from the intercooler to the throttlebody, is that needed for movement of parts?
A smooth hose would give a lot less turbulence to the flow.

Originally Posted by Otterav

I guess 99% isn't good enough for some folks, I will say NICE FRICKEN job!!!!!!! Awesome install!!!!!
eric

Dougal is right, as of today it looks like this.

[matt.mcinnes]

Picked up the fittings for the inter-cooler but ran out of time today. These will replace the quick connects we used for testing.

[ozwallaby]

I hope, when you do your testing, you give us a not i/c kw/nm as well as an i/c kw/nm output. Temps/pressures as well would be nice... Looks the goods Matt, keep it up

[matt.mcinnes]

Originally Posted by ozwallaby

I hope, when you do your testing, you give us a not i/c kw/nm as well as an i/c kw/nm output. Temps/pressures as well would be nice... Looks the goods Matt, keep it up

We will only be testing with I/C on, although it would be interesting, but @ $160 Per Hr and 5-6 hours work dynoing, time is money as they say.

But we have a very good idea of of inlet temps without an intercooler. More interesting will be the pre and post air pressure readings of my design. along with post air temp.

[GM60]

Hell that's nice work!
Awesome!

[matt.mcinnes]

Tks

Fitted the hose tails today, came across a new problem the Mazda 121 radiator I picked up to cool the inter cooler, it has difficult sizes when it comes to conneting the hoses I can't buy off the roll, only lengths of a meter/yard. Hmmm

Will sleep on this problem have a few ideas, as I don't want a lot of joints. 27mm or 32mm I can buy to length, Mazda is 29mm, May get a little of both stock sizes and see if I can get away with one of them.

Nothing is ever simple

[ozwallaby]

Originally Posted by matt.mcinnes

We will only be testing with I/C on, although it would be interesting, but @ $160 Per Hr and 5-6 hours work dynoing, time is money as they say.

But we have a very good idea of of inlet temps without an intercooler. More interesting will be the pre and post air pressure readings of my design. along with post air temp.

I mean test with the i/c not operating not removed... but yes I hear what you're sayin' abt the $$$$.....

[matt.mcinnes]

Originally Posted by ozwallaby

I mean test with the i/c not operating not removed... but yes I hear what you're sayin' abt the $$$$.....

With it not opperating it would still act as a heat soak until up to temp with the water pump off, so the reading would not really be valid.

[matt.mcinnes]

Inter cooler cooler is coming along

[matt.mcinnes]

Been a slow week or so it seems.

The intercooler is now piped all the way to the rear with the return line connected to the radiator.

The intercooler feed from the Craig David pump has been a little more fun, the pump comes with 3 alternative sizes all to big to match the Mazda 121 radiator I picked up. So I needed a machine a new aluminum stright flange to bolt on to the pump this has taken longer than expected, but we are winning and it's almost complete.



The radiator brackets fit and just need a little bracing now to stiffen them up







One down and one to go

[matt.mcinnes]

Calculated the surface area of the cooling fins to be .723 Square Meters per core.

So all four cores have a combined surface area of 2.89 Square Meters.

If anyone cares to check these figures feel free, verification is always welcome.

[Tapage]

Did you know how much CFM you have in this electric fan . ? how muchs amps it need ?

Amazing job dude ..

[matt.mcinnes]

Originally Posted by Tapage

Did you know how much CFM you have in this electric fan . ? how muchs amps it need ?

Amazing job dude ..

No idea it's a pretty small fan and radiator out of a Mazda 121 tiny little car, amps are no issue as the fan and the Craig David pump will run off a 100 amp solid state relay like these I use for my head lights. I have a big alternator



If the radiator is not big enough to remove the heat from the inter cooler I will just go to a larger twin fan. I guess it depend how much time I spend on boost

[Tapage]

Oooooooooook .. definately no more questions in the fan section ..

[Granite Grinder]

Originally Posted by matt.mcinnes

No idea it's a pretty small fan and radiator out of a Mazda 121 tiny little car, amps are no issue as the fan and the Craig David pump will run off a 100 amp solid state relay like these I use for my head lights. I have a big alternator



If the radiator is not big enough to remove the heat from the inter cooler I will just go to a larger twin fan. I guess it depend how much time I spend on boost

Where do you find those skookum relays? 100A solid state... I like the looks of those.
GG

[canucksafari]

KG Technologies, Inc.: SSR
Nothing on price though.

[matt.mcinnes]

My intercooler cooler cools





All done and no leaks. It's running in the pic's and a lot quiter than i was expecting, very happy with the result.

Now to test the other end

[lshobie]

Wow, nice set up! I doubt you would need a bigger fan though, the other glycol.air intercoolers have alot smaller rad and fan than that. You should solder those relay connections though, makes em look better

Will that rad mount be stable on a washboard road?

[matt.mcinnes]

Originally Posted by lshobie

Wow, nice set up! I doubt you would need a bigger fan though, the other glycol.air intercoolers have alot smaller rad and fan than that. You should solder those relay connections though, makes em look better

Will that rad mount be stable on a washboard road?

The radiator mounts will be fine once it has a little bracing.

No Glycol in this just a rust inhibitor, Glycol is a far less efficient as a heat exchange medium than water. a necessary evil if you live in a colder climate.

[lshobie]

Very impressive, well done.

[matt.mcinnes]

Dyno is on Tuesday so time for some results for those watching and waiting tks for your patients were almost there.

Wish me Luck