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Originally Posted by ZLElvira
Gabe, its looking good!!!
Are you going to re-direct the coolant path to load at the top and pull from the bottom?
As you know and we have discussed our projects on the phone in great detail, so I wanted to share your setup without redirecting the flow path will be negating the cooling offered by the SCHX upgrade if all the oil heat is hitting the area going to the supercharger. It is for this purpose I created my own SCHX so I can use 100% of the cooling area, bottom feed since heat rises and pull the most BTU stripped coolant from the lower portion of the radiator. Every engine I have ever seen pulls coolant to the water pump from the bottom and discharges hot water from the thermostat to the top of the radiator... which is opposite flowpath of our SCHX cooling circuit.
In case those following this thread did not know, the OEM SCHX path is to pull coolant from the supercharger, push it through the Aux Cooler in the driver's side and from the bottom of the front SCHX, push it along with any air it creates up to the top/opposite passenger side (where all the heat goes) and then in a 5/8" aluminum tube, passes right behind ALL the heat exchangers with the radiator fan blasting it before going into the supercharger... IN THE NAME OF COOLING!! THIS IS WHY THE SC BRICKS ARE CONSTANTLY GETTING AIR TRAPPED IN THEM!!
In the factory design, there is NO means of removing air or expansion for thermal fluid increase... thus this is why the pump will shut off when it determines it is cavitating or catches an air bubble. In my design, there is no possible way of this happening since the system has a thermal expansion tank and the SCHX has a purge back to that tank that is far away from the fluid being introduced to the pump. My hottest supercharger fluid will come from the SC, go into the expansion tank before entering the pump and being sent to the upper Pass Side of the SCHX, making three passes across before exiting to the Aux heat exchanger and entering the Supercharger. At no point is my SC coolant in a path of hot air, or being heated by routing. I also have two failsafes to extract air that could be created by using water without glycol due to track rules, thermal expansion or any issues that could lead to a pump shutdown in a pressure regulated system.
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Yes sir... that is the plan. Can't get on the phone with you enough! Learn something every time! I think my hose routing solves the issue you mentioned. I have emptied and refilled my system several times already and it primes and fills perfectly. Just waiting for my additional sensor fittings so I can button up, and get some road testing in... I think I texted you this layout, but you were at dinner or something
