So i have a forge intercooler, i was drag racing on the track yesterday, this intercooler just gets so hot! I had to throw water over it to cool it down. Is this the norm with intercoolers or isit possibly because i dont have iridiums?
Temp was about 14deg celcius.

Oh and the car stays on 5 cars before i run, this is in the main line.

 

Yes it's normal
this is why we run a properly designed methanol kit to cool down the inlet charge

 

thank goodness, was getting worried. Even The GRS coolers does this? Im guessing the guys who drags on track without meth kit, keeps a bag of ice with them?

 

Haha yes unfortunately the Forge/Alta V2/GRS/stock intercoolers will all get extremely hot when sitting inside your hot engine bay at idle with no airflow going over the cooling fins.

A bag of ice ontop the intercooler is a cheap way to help resolve this problem, but by no means the best.

 

There is a local tuner here that offers a mist system for the top mount intercooler. It just sprays a mist of normal water over intercooler. How effective is this in everybody's opinion?

 

I used a tank sprayer at my last AutoX before and after each run just to wet down the IC. The temps almost never got above 100 degrees when the ambient temp was in the 80s. Compare this to the last day when it was in the 80s where I was seeing temperatures in the 150s without water. Water on the IC is a very simple and cheap way to cool things down, if you can get the right amount of water on there it is theoritcally possible to get the IC itself (not necassirily the air going through) to sub ambient temps thanks to the evaporative cooling effect the water provides.

In otherwords it can be pretty effective. I have an AutoX in a week, so I can take some hard data if you want...

 

Thanks Guy - I might seriously consider this option, especially when the hot african summer is around the corner. If you could get some data that would be well appreciated - if it's too much trouble, not to worry

 

Please do, i would appreciate it.

Mike S - are you frm S.A ?? Which part? Thats alot of mods you have on ur mini, and probably the fastest mini in S.Africa! Im sure it costed you a fortune, all those parts and to bring it down?

Have you put your mini on the strip? What times are you doing?

 

Hi R53,

That's what my location says I'm in Johannesburg. I take it you are also from South Africa?

I ran out of space in the signature, or I would have added the rest Yes, it was a pretty penny. Costed double the price of what is listed by the vendors on this site by the time it landed here with import tax and shipping. I would rather pay extra and have items that have been tried and tested by hundreds if not thousands of clients. I hate our local stuff, they always look like someone made it in their garage. For example, look at the welds from this local exhaust shop. What a joke!





Haven't been to the 1/4 mile yet with the car, I'd imagine I'd be at the high 13's or low 14's 1400 meters above sea level. Which is pretty damn good IMO.

 

Good to hear of more modded mini's in S.A. You dont hear much of them around and you would never see a mini on the drag strip. I like your interest in it:-D you saw the light...
Im sure it costed u almost the price of a second hand r53 altogether?
Any reason you had not raced it yet? Im pretty sure you would run those times! Keep it up!

That exhaust work is disgusting! I hope you went back and gave them a piece of your mind?
What exhaust you have? How many boxes?

 

That's not my car! I'd be behind bars by now if they did work like that. Merely just an example, but a typical South African one.
That's exactly why I modded mine, it's not the typical car that gets modded over here. Yes, it costed basically what the car cost me when I bought it new 6 years ago
Don't race it much, I prefer using my other cars for that.

I have the JCW exhaust system with the RMW header which I bought from Jan from this forum.

This is what my car's engine bay looks like, I've since added a rear strut brace, full powerflex bushes and mounts. Planning to add intercooler mist system and an oil cooler next. Then I'm done! (That's what I always say )



A shot from the outside (sorry for hijacking your thread).

 

this is pretty intertesting...do you have any pictures of this system or maybe and internet address to see this mist system and study a little bit about it?

i am located in greece and high temperatures is an issus here too...

thank you!

 

Mike you can alway go withe a CryO2 system
http://www.designengineering.com/pro...sp?m=sp&pid=72

That is just one system there are others on the market and then there is always a Fire extinguisher

 

CryO2 and others have water setup, I believe Alta's uses you washer tanks

http://www.designengineering.com/pro...sp?m=sp&pid=57

Once again I am using the same page just to show the systems there are a lot of these on the market look in one of the Tuner Magazines.

 

very Impressive Mike S, i was hoping that you would post pictures, sounds like you just cant get enough of the car, we'll same this side :D

just a question, dont mean to knock you down, why didnt you get the GP instead?

Oh are you the guy from MINI passion? i remember seeing that community on the net few months back and didnt see it again..I was on the hunt for an S.A mini community but there was not much luck :(

 

Thank John - I merely mentioned the local guy as it would be the easiest for me to obtain. Plus I get to save some money on import duties!

Here is the local guy's website. Scroll down to the mist system, not too much info though - I think you'd need to email them to get more details. I do know that they ship internationally. http://www.rgmotorsport.com/html/mini_cooper.html

 

Yes, I love this car too much. Hence why I just kept upgrading instead of getting another.

I'm not mad about the looks of the GP. It's too "boy-racer" for me (no offense to anybody who likes it), just different strokes for different folks.

Correct, same one from that website. It's not very active and I see they have closed the site.

 

Thanks Mike , Nice site.

I just was thinking with more to look at when it comes to CO2 you might be able to come up with something in your neck of the woods.

There are some DIY's if you do some searching on these subjects.

John

 

actually there are 4 very quick Mini's that we have done in the area

 

Amen to that Jan....As soon I get back into Cape Town will be loading those Remote tuning files you emailed to me to both cars.

 

Glad to hear

If you go to the racing forum you will see what Ian has done with a very similar setup

 

serious?? we'll they are not heard of in my town/city besides 1..
how long ago have you done these upgrades?

 

RMW HEAD/CAM/HEADER AND EXHAUST/METHANOL KITS

WE ARE REMOTE TUNING THEM NOW

THERE IS ALSO A GP with some interesting parts

 

nice work man...

anyway that I can see the stats/figures after the remote tuning? might consider this..

oh and check your private msgs while you at it

thanks

 

Where are you from in anycase?

PS. Jan, you have PM!