[DeTomaso] [EXTERNAL] An orphaned AC cooled intercooler project

[Sean Korb]

Thanks Jeff, I'm genuinely inspired, that was riveting!

I have had a hard time finding aftermarket mufflers less than 14
inches long but turbos would easily fit were mufflers used to be.  A
little creative plumbing  and I could keep a cooler of glycol in the
trunk.  It probably would be quieter than the Magnaflow glass I'm
using now.

sean

On 3/18/19, Jeff Cobb via DeTomaso <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com> wrote:
> Using an a/c evaporator to chill a tanked bath of glycol water that is
> electrically pumped through the inter cooler is one of if not the most
> efficient and smartest intercooler designs made. Imagine pumping high boost
> air well below ambient into your highly stressed hot engine. Thermal loads
> disappear, power is increased so boost could be lowered for same power.
> Win win.
> Of course parasitic compressor drag is more than offset by a cooler long
> block.
> Nitrous is great but a hassle.
> In 1984 my wife and I drove 120 miles into Mississippi to go camping. It was
> August, miserably hot and muggy, in our 71 280 4.5 se which I installed some
> CHEVY nitrous kit on. Drilled the throttle body and slid in a nitrous spray
> bar and drilled same and placed in a k-jetronic fuel injector for the gas.
> Got into a race with a 69? GTO, he would max at 120 or so and we at 143 for
> about 50 miles+ -.
> We we pulled off at our exit, a/c on the entire time, the car had a high
> idle 1800rpm. What now!?!? Hard to brake!?!!
> Opened the hot ass hood and found a COLD intake t body and intake which made
> thermal time switch think of winter and set up the idle speed.
> Never used the nitrous for longer than six seconds at a time. I was chilling
> the engines thermal mass just like the a/c chiller will.
> My shop and I are preparing to place an dedicated a/c chiller system onto a
> 2008 Bentley Flying Spur. The 50 amp compressor and insulated alloy chill
> tank are trunk mounted with condenser mounted on top of a airfoil tray
> mounted under trunk, just for of its ground effects trunk floor, which can
> be lowered at speed to a downforce loving 34deg by an electric stepper motor
> actuator on 4 sway bar link end pivoted parallelogram. While the cooler end
> will use 6 or more large long Laminova intercoolers buried in the intake
> with OEM air/air still intercoolers connected.
> This is for highway power so airflow will be my friend.
> Had to be wordy to get it all out.
> Take care guys and gals,
> Jeff Cobb
> Sent from my brain.
>
>> On Mar 18, 2019, at 4:11 PM, Himes, Terry (397C) via DeTomaso
>> <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com> wrote:
>>
>> Whoa.  Alhambra is close to JPL and Pasadena.
>>
>> "A Purple Heart proves you were smart enough to hatch a plan,
>> stupid enough to try it and lucky enough to survive!"
>>
>> Terry W. Himes
>> JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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>> Phone: (818) 393-6261
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>> thimes at jpl.nasa.gov
>> 🇺🇸
>>
>>
>> On 3/18/19, 9:41 AM, "DeTomaso on behalf of Ken Green via DeTomaso"
>> <detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com on behalf of
>> detomaso at server.detomasolist.com> wrote:
>>
>>    I had a client developing an intercooler that used the AC.  He recently
>> passed away from cancer and no one at his company is in a position to
>> continue the project.  It was very far along and he had 3 issued patents
>> and a pending application.  The company is in Alhambra, CA.
>>
>>    If anyone is interested in taking on a project like this, please
>> contact me for more information.  I hate to see all his efforts lost.
>>    I recognize that there may be some skepticism regarding the AC having
>> sufficient cooling capacity, but I think Dodge is doing something like
>> this:
>>
>> https://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/car-technology/a10362887/dodge-demon-air-conditioning-power-tech/
>>
>>    Ken
>>
>>
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