{"id":16823,"date":"2013-06-22T17:48:08","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T22:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/?p=16823"},"modified":"2013-06-22T18:57:36","modified_gmt":"2013-06-22T23:57:36","slug":"ice-viking-and-the-avs-intercooler-tank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/ice-viking-and-the-avs-intercooler-tank\/","title":{"rendered":"Nordic Ice and the AVS Intercooler Tank"},"content":{"rendered":"

We receive some meds packed in thermal blankets with Nordic Ice<\/a> gel packs tucked in to keep them cold.\u00a0 “freeze and re-use as long-lasting ice packs” they say.\u00a0 I have a hot intercooler coolant system (most any day).\u00a0 What happens if we put these two ideas together?<\/p>\n

\"ice1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In my intercooler system, coolant flow up from the pump to the intercooler, then down to a heat exchanger, through a reservoir, another heat exchanger, and back to the pump.\u00a0 Almost none of the system is accessible with the nose of the V in place.<\/p>\n

However, if I remove the engine covers and gently pry back the air guides, I can just slot in Nordic ice bags on the AVS aluminum coolant tank.<\/p>\n

\"ice2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I had extras so I put them near the filter to try to provide some local A\/C.<\/p>\n

\"temps<\/a><\/p>\n

The yellow line is ambient temp in the driveway — yes 100F here in Texas.\u00a0 The blue line is air into the engine intake — around 120F.\u00a0 The Red line we would like to see go down to below 100F (wishes).\u00a0 What we see is that it falls from 148F to a flat steady 138F and stays there regardless of the iced tank.<\/p>\n

\"seal\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I did discover that there was radiator air leaking into the filter area near a joined metal location and applied a seal there to block hot air coming to the filter.<\/p>\n

Conclusion<\/h2>\n

The test was not ideal, as no air was flowing over the two heat exchangers since the V was sitting with the engine running in the driveway.\u00a0 I was hesitant to drive with the Nordic Ice packs just loosely stacked on the AVS tank.\u00a0 However, I could in a future test add a fan over the heat exchangers.<\/p>\n

It would be great to engineer a system to allow ‘transfusion’ of cold intercooler coolant into the system when heat soaked and thus restore it to cold temps for testing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We receive some meds packed in thermal blankets with Nordic Ice gel packs tucked in to keep them cold.\u00a0 “freeze and re-use as long-lasting ice packs” they say.\u00a0 I have a hot intercooler coolant system (most any day).\u00a0 What happens … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[779,718,6,523,189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hp-tuners","category-intercooler","category-site-info-news","category-sts-v-cadillac-models","category-test-info"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16823"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16837,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16823\/revisions\/16837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}