mat temperatures...comparisons for fun...

[dodge1979]

Having done an espritmon log the other weekend, I finally decided to take a look at it, just to see how my chargecooler upgrades are working. Reasonably spirited driving down country lanes ending in town driving over a twenty min period. Basically, my air temp is reading steady about 30 to 32 degrees around the lanes, in town driving it tended to peak about 35 degrees. It wasnt a particularly hot or cold day, about 18 degrees if I remember.

So chaps, how does this compare to other peoples...the mods btw are the electric pump, and a rather large upgraded custom rad.

darren

[sailorbob]

From mid January this year, inoperative chargecooler pump, dyno runs:

5 minute run - starts at 34 deg C and rises up to 47 deg C

2 1/2 minute run - starts at 49 deg C, drops to 44 deg C mid way and rises back to 49 deg C

2 1/2 minute run - starts at 45 deg C and rises to 53 deg C

1 5/6 minute run - starts at 53 deg C and rises to 55 deg C

The cumulative heat soak effects can can be seen in these runs.

From mid August this year, again with inoperative chargecooler pump, 1 hours of open road and town mixed driving generally shows high 40's to low 60's. No sustained hard driving.

[Vulcan Grey]

Here's mine. I graphed it with road speed, and MAP.

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B2nifoCpaFSfNTRiNGRhYmEtY2NkNy00ZDQyLTgyZDAtODVhMzlmZmVhMmNh&hl=en

[dodge1979]

So it looks like its running efficiently then..with no issues keeping the temps down! Which is good news, I wasnt sure if I still had an air lock in it as it was a bugger to bleed even with a bleed screw on the rad

[Bibs]

If you undo that by a small amount and drive around for a while, it kinda bleeds itself. I replaced 6" of the hose going up to it with clear pipe from a chandlers so I could ensure it was bled correctly.