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Got bored at home, no parts arriving to carry on with fabrication ☹️ ........I’ve still got this old k-data ecu I’ve used on other builds (it’s a bit battered, hence the extra box) It still works 👍 So unpicked the ls loom, and I’ll give it a go sticking them together and see if it works    |
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Not much going on really Works picked up, child still not back at school......new puppy Cars on hold 😂 It’s just needs a weekends welding the internal panels and it’ll be ready to stick it back together Have been thinking about the turbo,intercooler, and Inlet , and free up/tidying up the engine bay space Might combine the intercooler and the intake into 1 thing using laminova cores......something like this   ......so I’ve ordered 4 laminova intercooler cores, and will get a Holley hi-ram intake and sandwich it all in the middle Each core is meant to handle 150hp so 4 should be fine Plan is to mount the cores in tubes with 15mm slits in them, then box it up and bolt betweeen the hi-ram Took a while, but I’ve found the correct size tube to house the cores.....aluminium scafffold tube 😂  Anyone had any experience with these, am looking for solutions for the water connections 👍👍 |
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Looking good. Can i add my pennyworth. From experience, you would not need the electric water pump unless you are removing the engine pump, You will need a bleed valve or small pipe to vent from the very top of the radiator to get trapped air out. Unless you create an airtight duct to the rad from the floor in front of the axle(and a suitable exit to low pressure for the air) you will be relying on electric fans on the radiator core for all your cooling. Everything in your boot is going to get VERY hot even ducting the hot air to outside. Sure it will all work out. Mine has a rad in boot with an air scoop below and air exiting rear panel (low pressure) Only pain is venting the system. Electric fans only come on if sitting in traffic.   |
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Can you explain the laminova stuff? No idea what it is but it looks interesting.
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Random idea.
Will the inlet manifold fit back to front.
If so you could route the pressure pipe from the turbo through under the manifold to a Charge cooler mounted above the gearbox (lots of room there)
Would leave the manifold low so as to not protrude thru the bonnet.
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Can you explain the laminova stuff? No idea what it is but it looks interesting. Mark. Its a very efficient heat exchanger , cool water flows through the middle (pumped to a front mounted raiator) and the forced air is blown across the external fins, where the heat is transferred to the water and carried away. |
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Oh, ok sort of like the charge coolers but with water rather than air?
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Random idea. Will the inlet manifold fit back to front. If so you could route the pressure pipe from the turbo through under the manifold to a Charge cooler mounted above the gearbox (lots of room there) Would leave the manifold low so as to not protrude thru the bonnet. ? Yeah, the top hat of the hi-ram can be pointed either way 👍👍 |
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Oh, ok sort of like the charge coolers but with water rather than air? Yeah, it’s a water/air charge cooler , but will be mounted inside the intake manifold.......which will save space and a lot less boost piping 👍 .....hopefully 😂 |
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Oh, ok sort of like the charge coolers but with water rather than air? Sort of like this  |
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Cool  never heard of them before. |
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Regarding the laminova. I’m sure the they were originally designed as oil - water coolers. I think Rover used them on some cars to cool gearboxes back in the 2000’s and they worked quite well with oil passing through them at a much greater pressure - say 50psi, but will the pressure drop across those fins hinder any performance gains that you’d get from the reduction of charge temperature.
If you were to strip an air to air charge air cooler, the turbulators inside the core are designed not to restrict air flow to the engine but still give every bit of air a chance to dissipate heat. The laminova really doesn’t look like it was designed to do that at lower pressures.
I could be wrong as I’ve never seen any data. They might work brilliantly, but if it did I’d have thought more car manufacturers would be using them in this way.
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These cores are a specific intercooler type,
And a few car manufacturers have used them in the manifold, mainly for supercharged engines 👍👍
Everything I read have said they are very efficient with very little pressure drop
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That’s good to hear. 👍 From what I remember they were good as oil coolers but I never saw them used like this, but I left the industry 11 years ago so out of touch with developments
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........like this 😂  |
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 It might just stick Out the bonnet 😂 |
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I'm not sure packing tape will be airtight enough. I'd recommend Duct tape.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  |
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never heard of them before.
