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Intercooler
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Joebob
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Anyone run a water to air intercooler off the engine cooling system? It’s a field and pull tractor so no ice box set up. Could do a self contained system but tight on space and plumbing into the engine system would be quick and easy. Thanks. |
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Northerner
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That would defeat the purpose of a cooler. Be more of a pre heater |
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Registered: 01/23/2011 Posts: 241 |
It depends on your goals, if you are OK with 230 F intake air, then using engine coolant will work and many engines are done this way. Take coolant from the discharge of the water pump, or use a dedicated pump and take coolant from the outlet of the radiator (usually the bottom). |
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I think
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I think you guys are missing the point of his question maybe. I think he’s asking if it will do any good to plumb ice water to an oem cooler. I could be wrong though. If so it would certainly help |
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Joebob
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I’m asking if I’ll be happy with the results of plumbing a frozen boost water to air intercooler into the engine cooling system. My thought is will the addition of the charge air heat into the coolant bring up the engine temp too much? Only one way to find out I suppose. |
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I think
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My bad I totally misinterpreted that. To answer your question you won’t need to worry about it raising your engine temp to much. Don’t know that it’ll help you any either |
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Registered: 03/25/2008 Posts: 2,526 |
Not trying to be a jerk or anything, just looking for some clarity.
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Joebob
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Egts creep up higher then I like and I’m wondering if a water to air cooler cooling the charge air to 200-220* would bring down my egts. If it bumps power that’s a plus. |
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Registered: 02/08/2014 Posts: 406 |
What brand and model tractor ? If it's a Deere I would think you can adapt to a stock cooler that should help. That would be a simpler fix. I don't know what other brands have for coolers. |
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Joebob
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It’s a 2590 case, a 2670 and 4690 came with a water to air intercooler from factory, the core in intake manifold type, they run off the engine cooling system but the radiators are bigger. |
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Registered: 12/23/2018 Posts: 7 |
Joebob,
If you are currently monitoring intake temps and they are up close to 300* then I think you could get a decent drop in EGT’s by adding the air to water with engine coolant circulating. Also curious, how warm does the engine coolant get? Im not familar with this type of pulling. We generally never see more than about 140* at the end of a run, but the tractor only runs long enough to make the pull. If you are pulling with a relatively cool engine, your radiator might not get that hot. |
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done it before
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Done it before on an A-C. I damaged one of the two thermostats so it kept some water pressure but the coolant never warmed up. Use 15W-40 motor oil. Not much warm-up time and the engine coolant never gets hardly warm, which makes the intercooler effective. |
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I’m over here
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Wondering why you can’t remote mount the cooler tank and plumb ice water to whatever form of cooler you are wanting to use…. |
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