What exactly does a heat exchanger do?
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What exactly does a heat exchanger do?
Hello everyone,
Proud new e55 owner here, just had some questions on heat exchangers, what exactly do they do, and are they a good mod to have for strictly STREET RACING? i will never take the car to a drag strip. I bought the car with the following mods,
ECU tune
Pulleys
IC pump
I live in California so they temps are fairly hot year round, I have read that when the temps get to hot the car gets heat soaked and the supercharger shuts off, is this correct? If so does the Heat Exchanger prevent this completely, like I said I will only race the car on the streets or freeways never on the drag but I want to try and prevent the car heat soaking, after 2 or 3 runs
Thanks
Proud new e55 owner here, just had some questions on heat exchangers, what exactly do they do, and are they a good mod to have for strictly STREET RACING? i will never take the car to a drag strip. I bought the car with the following mods,
ECU tune
Pulleys
IC pump
I live in California so they temps are fairly hot year round, I have read that when the temps get to hot the car gets heat soaked and the supercharger shuts off, is this correct? If so does the Heat Exchanger prevent this completely, like I said I will only race the car on the streets or freeways never on the drag but I want to try and prevent the car heat soaking, after 2 or 3 runs
Thanks
Last edited by AMG__POWER; 08-06-2015 at 05:35 AM.
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It cools the water down, which cools down the air which has been compressed by the supercharger. If the air that has been compressed is too hot, your car will pull timing initially to prevent detonation, then if it continues to rise, disconnect the clutch on the supercharger.
If you're familiar with turbo cars, the inter cooler for them is out the front as air will pass over it directly to be cooled. With ours the inter cooler is underneath the charger and needs to be cooled by water.
If you're familiar with turbo cars, the inter cooler for them is out the front as air will pass over it directly to be cooled. With ours the inter cooler is underneath the charger and needs to be cooled by water.
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Nice. Grossly inadequate is on point. One of the more common mods is to upgrade the HE pump, which will circulate the water through the system faster, attempting to compensate for the inadequacies of said w/a intercooler.
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That's what I'm wondering I have a new bosh 010 pump but I was wondering if I add the heat exchanger is that the missing piece
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'14 C63 507, '11 C300, '96 Cobra, '91 Mr2
HX, HX pump (also called intercooler pump), and potentially trunk mounted reservoir you can pack with ice.
The stock A2W intercooler is staying where it is underneath the supercharger.
The stock A2W intercooler is staying where it is underneath the supercharger.
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after hard runs. You should add this if you are going to start adding mods...if you are going to add a trunk tank then you may want to hold off some bypass the HE and just run it direct to the ic pump and back , it keeps the car cooler that way.
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I dont really want to do split cooling I was just thinking if I added the heat exchanger it would prevent heat soak for when I do decide to joy ride which isn't very often
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2007 sl65 amg
I had no issues making number off pulls with that car without heat soak.
Heat exchanged was gonna be my next mode!
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Hello guys, when I install killer chiller, should I remove thermostat? Someone from Mercedes told me, that thermostat cuts the flow of intercooler fluid in certainly temperature. And how you measure temperature of coolant? Thanks