 "Water Cooled Valve Covers on a /4" ????, Muellers crazy idea of the week :) |
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| Mueller |
 Feb 15 2006, 10:21 AM
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Yes, it does sound crazy, but hear me out.......
The oil in the valve covers is perhaps the hottest oil in the motor due to the heat of the heads and the valve train. The current steel covers have plenty of surface area, but no real air flow and besides steel sucks for heat dissapation....the aftermarket aluminum valve covers benifit from having fins (still not much air to go over them) and from the better heat dis. properties of alum. Now my thinking is that by adding water channels to an aluminum valve cover, you could help control the heat much better, one could even go a little further with this idea and attach w/screws alum or copper "junction" pieces from the cover to head to transfer heat from the head to the cooler cover..... A very small radiator could be used and I'm guessing less than a gallon of water would be needed.... |
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Mueller "Water Cooled Valve Covers on a /4" ???? Feb 15 2006, 10:21 AM
Dr Evil Groovy http://www.914world.com/... Feb 15 2006, 10:26 AM Aaron Cox it works on paper.
now implement it. Feb 15 2006, 10:27 AM tat2dphreak I thought about this the other day looking at the ... Feb 15 2006, 10:28 AM jimkelly Mueller - I'll just sit back a wait for Jake... Feb 15 2006, 10:30 AM Howard Nah, too much work. Cast some jazzy valve covers ... Feb 15 2006, 10:30 AM SLITS Buy a Suby and get over it.................. Feb 15 2006, 10:33 AM Mueller Feb 15 2006, 10:35 AM r_towle There is a web site of a company that makes aircoo... Feb 15 2006, 10:38 AM rhodyguy mike, i got the new performance products catalog y... Feb 15 2006, 10:48 AM Brian Mifsud This is the way I see the usefulness of added cool... Feb 15 2006, 10:49 AM Mark Henry Every Al cover I've ever seen leaked like a bi... Feb 15 2006, 11:13 AM davep How hot do the valve covers actually get? Particul... Feb 15 2006, 11:15 AM Howard You guys are missing the point. Who cares? Just ... Feb 15 2006, 11:37 AM Porcharu On thing Mike left out - a water jacket would real... Feb 15 2006, 12:26 PM Mueller h... Feb 15 2006, 01:04 PM Brian Mifsud http://www.914world.com/bbs... Feb 15 2006, 01:24 PM TonyAKAVW I kinda doubt the peltiers would do it, and then y... Feb 15 2006, 01:27 PM Brian Mifsud Ha TONY... YOUR CALCULATORS FASTER THAN MINE...... Feb 15 2006, 01:29 PM TROJANMAN you guys are a bunch of nerds ... Feb 15 2006, 03:41 PM Dead Air Easy,
Just move the spare tire and reservoir to th... Feb 16 2006, 08:28 AM tat2dphreak ... Feb 16 2006, 09:08 AM Britain Smith Here is what I did.
http://www.britainsmith.com... Feb 16 2006, 11:34 AM TROJANMAN ... Feb 16 2006, 11:45 AM Jake Raby The key is an efficient combo that does not genera... Feb 16 2006, 12:37 PM alpha434 I agree with Jake.
And I think I've already ... Feb 16 2006, 12:50 PM Jake Raby ..and the remedy is tuning.
If it won't tune-... Feb 16 2006, 12:57 PM
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