W2A intercooler belt driven pump? (1 Viewer)

[troopie]

Just like the title says. Is there some sort of belt driven waterpump that can be fitted to a 1HDFT engine and act like a pump for a water to air intercooler? My truck is 24 volts troughout and i want as few voltage convertors as possible and can't seem to find a 24v electric pump suitable.
Or am i smoking something and is this not smart or possible or whatever.

TIA
Mark

 

[Locked79]

APEUSA maje em 12 and 24v
Auto Performance Engineering - Johnson CM30 and CM90 pumps by SPX

 

[troopie]

How did i miss this....

Thanks!

 

[bjowett]

Webasto produces 24V pumps. There's a good deal on eBay right now.

 

[Dougal]

I used a washing machine pump (belt driven) on my first water-air intercooler about 16 years ago.

Worked great until the inlet seal wore out (spinning 3x engine speed) and it couldn't hold a prime. I replaced it with a subaru 12V water/air intercooler pump then scrapped the whole system a short time later.

 

[troopie]

Apperantly i've not been looking in the right places... LOL
The webasto pumps seem like a good source since i'm in Europe. One of those should be easy to find locally.

@Dougal What made you scrap the W2A system? I unfortunately have no room for a front mounted IC and i really don't want to go top mount and cut a hole for a scoop. I hope to get similar results from a W2A, just a little more complicated.

 

[Dougal]

@Dougal What made you scrap the W2A system? I unfortunately have no room for a front mounted IC and i really don't want to go top mount and cut a hole for a scoop. I hope to get similar results from a W2A, just a little more complicated.

Two things really. One was the poor effectiveness (~15%) and the other was the risk of water ingestion. I had no room (or budget -student) for a proper air/water heat exchanger at the time so this was a home brew setup using 2.5m of copper pipe coiled inside the cross-over tube. I was concerned about fatigue on the joints of the copper entering and leaving the cross-over tube. Any failure would pump water straight into the intake.

I bought a proper air/water core a few years later but never fitted it. Sold that a few years back when I finally worked out how to rearrange *everything* in the front of my vehicle to fit a 600x400mm air/air.
So I now have a 600x400mm air/air in a box I've owned for 2 years. It's a major to install it (new rad and a/c condensor) and it's behind a long and slow moving list of other major projects.

 

[troopie]

I see. I've got a used celica gt4 w2a unit. These look like a very well thought out design, better then some generic ones i think.
That said, if i come across an air 2 air unit that i can actually fit. That will be put in there...