Water to air Cooler Questions

[Sledheadxp800r]

I've heard that for a diesel you should buy a cooler rated for at least twice the HP you are running. Is this true?

Also the one I found that would fit where I want has 4" inlet/outlet. Would it be ok to run 3" intercooler tubes to and from the cooler with the proper reducers?

Thanks
Jesse

 

[CurtisEmery]

Yes it will work fine. I run a frozen boost 2000hp cooler with 3-4" reducers on the inlet and outlet. Make sure you have a good water pump. The small rule pumps are much too small. I run a stewartwarner 55gpm pump on my set up a little pricy but it works great!

 

[Sledheadxp800r]

Nice. Are you running a complete system with a radiator and ice box and all that good stuff?

 

[CurtisEmery]

I just have the intercooler. My ice box is part of my weight box. The supplied ice box from them is tiny. You would be lucky to get 1 bag of ice it. You need to be able to hold between 6 and 8 bags of ice to affevtively cool the intercooler.

 

[Sledheadxp800r]

I was thinking about modifying a decent sized cooler to hold the water and ice.

 

[duramaxsandwich]

be careful with the frozen boost intercoolers, make sure u check them before u run 'em, mine cost me a season after it leaked water into the motor!

 

[Sledheadxp800r]

Are you still running one after that disaster?

 

[duramaxsandwich]

Are you still running one after that disaster?

no im having my buddy (quadracer37) build one from some honeywell/garrett cores.

its definitely pressure tested this time :thumb:

 

[Rhall]

Chiseled racing makes an awesome product, that is more costly than the frozen boost units, but not near as costly as most good set ups.