Advanced cooling experiment

[cmann250]

Back to my original idea, is anyone interested in cooling data? I guess it wasn't as mystical as I once thought

I'm going to pull the trigger on gauges, coolers, and a shift kit once a check from selling pigs comes in. With any luck, I'll have it done before SOP

[revemup15]

This thread makes me laugh

[cmann250]

This thread makes me laugh

I'm glad, Kyle. If I accomplish nothing more than making you laugh, my day is a success.

[Hansen01]

So your a pig farmer..
No wonder your broke,lol
idk what the price of em is anymore but a couple years ago everyone was losing money on them, not the case anymore?
Carefull when you put your gauges in, you might not like what they tell you

[cmann250]

So your a pig farmer..
No wonder your broke,lol
idk what the price of em is anymore but a couple years ago everyone was losing money on them, not the case anymore?
Carefull when you put your gauges in, you might not like what they tell you

I had 4-H pigs and the only reason that I had them this year is to complete 10 years in the project The guy I work for has production pigs and the nursery and farrowing house are empty! I'm not sure what today's market is, but generally you make under $2 a head, so it makes financial sense when you send 50,000 plus out the door. It just makes your life miserable when you send under 5,000 out the door in a year

My wager on gauge readings: I can peg a 1600* pyro and 35 psi boost gauge without any effort. I don't know what a non-lock up trans temp should be, but I know it's toasty. The intercooler and converter will help, but it'll still get hot in a hurry.

[Hansen01]

Back when i had the stock turbo i could peg my 1600 degree pyro, on my dads his will get up to around 140 when he drives and about 120 when i drive, and an easy 180 if he pulls anything and thats with a tranny cooler with a fan that kicks on at 180

[Remps]

I switched to a thicker fluid as well a few weeks ago, not cause I wanted to! Blew a clamp off one of the lines and puked a bunch of fluid, luckily buddys house wasn't too far and he had a pail of 46? wt hydraulic fluid. Converter feels tighter now, shifts about the same. And of course we are interested in hearing about your "cooling experiment".

[Sutter1stgen]

I'm interested as well. When I first removed my fliud to fluid cooler for the new twins, I thought it would stay cool with my big tube and fin cooler ininstalled under the bed. Well that wasn't the case. I'm dunning just the fluid to fluid cooler now off of the front crossmember and have yet to get over 180 with the temps while towing 10k in the flat. What raises the temps with no load is sitting at a light with the tighter converter. Curiouse to see what you find works.

Eric

[cmann250]

I now have a plate style cooler in the grille now since I intercooled the truck. I'll have to go off of this when I get around to this experiment. It doesn't make sense that 180-190* coolant can cool down the trans fluid so much, but it always does

[directinjktn1stgen]

ive always been told 100 degrees over outside temp is safe as it can get i have completely stock trans and drive mine everyday sometimes pretty hard and it never goes above 150 thats with another cooler beside the transfer case and an electric fan pulling cool air from the roadway

[oldestof11]

Caleb, fluid to fluid has the best heart transfer, hence why most pullers have an air to water intercooler.

[cmann250]

DATA!

With just a plate style cooler (about 10" wide, 11" tall, and under 1" thick) in front of the intercooler, I just got a pan temp of 125* with my thermometer after a cruise from town. In the near future (I hope before SOP), I'll do two more tests with the fluid to fluid cooler and then the Suncoast converter.

[Diesel]

So is the suncoast converter a stock replacement or tighter than stock?

[cmann250]

It's an upgrade. I was told that it's 89% efficient. We shall see. It can't be worse than what I have now

[KurtzN1]

hehe, funny thread. anything come out of this??