heat soak.........................

[S14a johno]

can anyone shed light on this?
one lads where saying ya can get heat soak
from an intercooler if you spray it

never heard this before

johno

[colm]

heat soak is when heat is transfered from one thing to another. Like the heat of your rad making your intercooler warmer, meaning it wont cool the air passing through it as best it can

painting an intercooler might feck up its cooling ability a bit but i cant see how it could create heat soak.

[alan opel]

yea a painted intercooler wouldnt cause heatsoak, i get bad heatsoak in the nova as the airfilter sits so close to the exhaust mani and turbo the air it sucks in is very hot, i noticed a big difference at the last drag day just by removing by headlamp and getting more cold air onto the filter instead of hot air

[S14a johno]

hmmm so how would you get around it??
like i sprayed the incoller,



dont tell me ive take it all off

soo in lay man tems it like haven someting hot, like a manifold near someting cold where the cold objest
cant cool down as much, which then casue more hot air or transfer into the engine


but i cant see painting an intercooler causes this?? as paint an airasol ........

[Greg]

Johno, the intercooler core on my car has been sprayed black now for over a year and the car has been fine. Never had more than the normal operating temperature show up on the Power FC handheld because of it. I did however make up a bodge job of a heat shield for the air filter and it dropped the running temps by 4 degrees. the turbo is right beside the air filter and the filter was just sucking in hot air all the time.

[colm]

that shouldnt make a balls of a difference man.
some lads seem to dip them in paint for some reason

[sil80drifter]

what if the intercooler piping is very close to the rad, would that make the air very hot?

[slammedmind]

what if the intercooler piping is very close to the rad, would that make the air very hot?

depending on which side yes, the temp will be directly affected

[sil80drifter]

depending on which side yes, the temp will be directly affected

between engine and rad, nearly touchin it, very tight squeeze

[S14a johno]

between engine and rad, nearly touchin it, very tight squeeze

yep say so man, like there no cold are getn in there but there be a lot of hot air which can heat up the pipe to some degrees so the air going to the turbo be slightly warm