water cooled verses air cooled air charge, RE: Porsche k26 turbo(now IC/fan)

["Avi Meron" <avi@cosmoslink.net>]

Better, all other factors being equal, water cooled is far superior to
air.........
How many air cooled engines (automotive) are left?..........none...(OK
almost none..
Avi

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-quattro@coimbra.ans.net
> [mailto:owner-quattro@coimbra.ans.net]On Behalf Of harrison
> Sent: Thursday, July 02, 1998 3:42 PM
> To: Brett Dikeman
> Cc: John Karasaki; quattro@coimbra.ans.net
> Subject: Re: Porsche k26 turbo(now IC/fan)
>
>
> The IC on a 944 turbo is a nice unit. Aluminum about 2 feet long
> & thicker than
> an Audi. It's aluminum end caps are welded in place. Would take some
> fabrication to adapt it, the inlet & outlet are on opposite sides. Another
> interesting IC I recently saw was an 88 Celica All-trac turbo. It
> was a sealed
> unit that was water cooled with it's own little radiator &
> electric pump that
> looked identical to the after run pump on a 5k/200. Not sure that
> it would be
> better or worse though.
>
> harrison
>
> Brett Dikeman wrote:
>
> > Before doing that, consider a new IC.  I'm looking for one right as we
> > speak.  That or a fan that will fit in that tiny space; even
> though it's a
> > better IC than the one in the 5k(or is it?) it suffers from
> heat soak like
> > you wouldn't believe.  To get serious with that engine, you have to give
> > the IC about 1-2 minutes of calm driving.  Stop-light departures suffer
> > from engine heat cooking the IC.
> >
> > They make really super-thin fans, I just have to find one :)
> >
> > If anyone has any info on either, let me know.  Among other
> things, I need
> > to measure the available space between IC+timing belt cover(keeping
> > "bouncing" room in mind.)
> >
> > Remember, cooler temps are better than more pressure for about a zillion
> > different reasons(less detonation, and less stress[as opposed to higher
> > pressure] on hoses being among them.  Not to mention you don't have to
> > re-map the ECU!)
> >
> > Brett
> > 91 200q 20v
> >
> > PS:Check out, in Turbo magazine, the article on the RAM pickup...V10,
> > 600something hp.  Twin turbos, water-to-air intercooler, with 12 gallon,
> > electrically-chilled(peltier device?) ice-chest to hold water
> to cool it.
> > It reduces the charge to an asounding 65 deg. F!  Daaaaaamn.
> >
> > ------
> > Brett Dikeman
> > brett@pdikeman.ne.mediaone.net
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