Now I’m not talkin about heat soaking of the air it’s the water in the chargecooler I’m talkin about, without cool air flowing over the heatexchanger you might as well have a tea bag ready because the water will be hot enough without cooling fans at low speeds
The heat in the water from the chargecooler is heated up by the heat of the charged-air. When the engine isn’t under load and car is idling, the charge air isn’t a factor and doesn’t add any significant heat to the water cycle - thus, no air-flow is required at idle, unless we are talking about idling the car until the point that heat becomes a factor with just about every other part on the car, regardless how many fans have kicked in at that point…
Tracks for testing…we have foulkin deserts with long steep grades…
You mean those canyons you call “driving roads” in your Youtube videos…
I’ve tested the same type of heatexchanger setup as the Komo-tec setup so you are wrong again, no effect on engine cooling…
I obviously can’t vouch for your car, but I do know that there have been observations of increased engine temps (loss of performance sometimes the effect) overhere by Komo-tec customers that have tracked their car hard on hot days.
I’ve driven just about every Komo-Tec variant outthere - from Exige-S tuned ones to their “Turbodrive” varients - how many have you driven to effectively know from experience and be in a position to claim to know anything about their kit or how well it works?
Why would I want my chargecooler mounted under the freakin headers
Under the headers?! Don’t know where you have any room there, but that’s not where I have my charge cooler sitting. Want to guess again?
As for keeping it “down there” - keep the center of gravity low and the water runs simple and as short as possible. Most of the heat also rises up btw, not down - and at the bottom, you may be even to use some of the air-flow from the ground etc. Not to mention to have it in a place that not only works for Exiges, but also Elises without larger modification required.
Name the amount and I’ll bet my charge air temps are far better than yours
That wouldn’t really be an apples to apples comparison though would it, not to mention the amount of factors that are just as important (pressure, ambient temps etc). Seriously, all that matters is that it works brilliant both at idle, on the road and on the track - and there are more than enough customers that can attest to that.
And just in case you’re blind - I already mentioned some temps.
he fins don’t direct air to the Bemani heatexchanger they allow for air to escape,
Not only that, but they also cause a lower pressure (negative pressure) by re-directing the air that travels under the car to suck the fresh air through the heatexchanger. The air traveling through the front-intake is more than enough to travel to both exchangers.
and yes the fans do reduce the high pressure in the crash structure…
Err, what?!
Charlie will have a tune for the 05-07 Bemani when this is all said and done You may want to contact him…
And void my warranty with Bemani and make it a non approved car under Swiss laws? No thanks.
Bemani sell the cars as they do (with the power they make) with full warranty - anything that would compromise longevity of the car is not something I am particularly fond of. Upping pressure without modding the engine block or tampering with a tune that was sold with the kit happens to be one of them.
To each their own though.