I'm trying to understand how the stock heat exchanger works, and what exactly it cools.

I tried searching for other threads, couldnt find any. Been in arguments with two friends about how we have heat exchangers stock, but can't explain them because I dont know anything about them.

Inb4newb

 

We have a h/e stock. It has a separate coolant system and pump from the engine coolant.

Inside the intake manifold there are four tubes with fins called laminova's. The coolant is cooled in the h/e, then pumped through the laminova's. Heated air from the SC passes through the IM and over the fins on the laminovas, and the coolant in the laminovas, cools the air down, creating a denser intake charge, creating a more powerful ignition, and helping to prevent detonation.

Did that answer the question?

 

Shut them up. Thanks alot.

Any idea on how often this fluid should be changed out, and I'm assuming with just dexcool anitfreeze, or what?

 

uts normal coolant yeah, not sure on the service intervals, i would imagine its similar to the engine coolant, but if it doesn't freeze its better to run a mixture of distilled water and water wetter.

 

x 2......change coolant every two years

 

I run a high distilled water/ dexcool mix in mine!

 

high distilled water is superior to low distilled water, but the bottom line is you are doing very well. Frankly, the difference is not enough to lose sleep over, but if you want to be 100% perfect, then 1 bad blueberry SC is doing this to perfection.

 

Wrong! There is no better way to destroy a cooling system that that my friend. Do you know some of the active ingredients in water wetter will eat parts of a cooling system?

 

sorry to get off topic but karlen ur car is hott

 

if nobody else finds this absolutely hilarious, something is wrong.

 

streetdreamz your answer is rubbish. Sorry thats it. rubbish. in the meantime both blueberry and karlen are using dexcool and distilled water (thats high distllled water to you) so in your eagerness to s**t all over water wetter, you missed the postive assistance that the posters were providing. You can also make a (weak) case that dexcool left in the cooling system and not flushed out periodically can cause problems ( class action suits etc to support the argument) and you would not be wrong in fact, but wrong in practice. Millions of racers use water wetter, millions of ordinary folks use dexcool, the rarest of people used (high lol) distilled water and dexcool in their h/e systems. The other thing StreetDreamz that bugs me is that while you are factually inaccurate, you are also casting crap all over a reasonable question and reasonable answers. STFU if you cant contribute postiively. Put thigns in context. If you eat nothing but macdonalds every day you will probably suffer from malnutrition. If you sniff gasoline continuously you will probably die. If you post crap like this the folks that know will most lilkely laugh at you.

 

Thats cause John's sarcasm machine is on over drive right now!

I meant I am using a HIGHER distilled water ratio vs. dexcool... And water wetter does not hurt the cooling system... I have some of that in both cooling systems at the moment!

 

I've been running water wetter for 2 years now w/ just High distilled water, I told my son not to blow that smoke in the water bottle! But I don't have to worry about freezing here so No Dexcool at all, it's garbage!

 

I'll be going to straight HIGH distilled water here shortly!

 

yay for info

 

No Water Wetter for the heat exchanger, its a waste.. Get DEI's Chill Charger for that.

 

Chill Charger Foams up... foam doesn't do **** for heat dissipation! I've seen it first hand!

 

Neither does Water Wetter in a system that wont ever have any localized boiling issues.

 

I never said it did anything at all... I just had a little left over from my cooling system so I just poured it in!

Distilled water alone does more than either of those "additives" will do!

 

I thought DEI worked out the problems with Chill Charger, no?

 

I have no idea... I was just with Area47 when he was doing his H/E and put in the stuff from DEI and it FOAMED up something crazy so then he spent the next few days bleeding all that foam out of it!

 

Yeah, I read his post about that. It was a while back though, right?

 

Oh yeah, LOOOONG time ago!