What is the difference between the JLP powercooler and the JLP supercooler?

 

I believe the power cooler fits under hood, where the super cooler goes in the bed of the truck.



josh

 

what he said, the supercooler mounts in the bed and has about double the capacity of the original powercooler that mounts under the hood.

later,
chris

 

anybody know the capacity of the supercooler

 

Im sure somebody will correct me if Im wrong but I think 1 of them circulates ice water thru the stock innercooler and the other chills the fluid going thru the innercooler. Running Ice water thru the innercooler is way more benifical than cooling the water going thru the system.

 

Neither circulates ice water through the inter cooler.
The intercooler fluid is cooled by the ice in the Power/Super Cooler. There is a coil of tubing inside the cooler that the intercooler fluid (50/50mix) passes through, transfering heat into the ice water.
I have a SuperCooler and let me tell you, it takes A LOT of ice. I fill it up and as the ice melts, I add more. Make a run...add more. Another run...add more. After about three runs, its all water. Drain half the water, fill with ice.
A normal day at the track takes about 2 coolers full of ice in the summer, 1 cooler full in the fall or winter.

I like it. It's a good idea.

FF

 

How hard is it to hook one of those up????

 

I thought they were just a bigger intercooler tank. More i/c fluid, more cooling???

 

I got to see one of these in action saturday at 41. Very sweet device

 

NOPE

It is like a second Heat Exchanger.
The first one, under the bumper is Air Cooled. The second one is Ice Water Cooled. You see, there is a coil of tubing inside the ice tank. The I/C fluid runs through the tubing and gets cold on it's way to the intercooler.

It is not hard to install.

 

So its only useful at the track? Right?

I thought people were using something like that for a bigger I/C tank to help with better cooling?

 

See, I knew I would be corrected

Here is what I did.

http://svt4me.com/supercooler.aspx


Here is another way it can be done as well.


http://forums.modulardepot.com/showt...threadid=21958

BTW- The heat exchanger behind the bumper actually raises the water temp (less than 10 degrees) instead of cooling it. On a stock setup the water goes directly into the intercooler from the heat exchanger under the bumper. Since the heat exchanger will actually raise the water temp, I reversed this on my truck. You want the coldest water possible in the intercooler. As Silver stated, you will use alot of ice. I generally use between 15-20lbs per run on my truck. I have made 2 passes before without adding ice but the 2nd run is between .1 to .15 slower, so I add ice after every pass.

 

The more water you have the longer it takes to heat up, but remember the more water you have the longer it takes to cool down. In the long run performance will not change at all by adding a bigger tank.

 

That's a good link.




Could you explain this. I'm not following.

 

A radiator or heat exchanger will change the water temp to as close as ambient air temp as possible(These depends on the effiecentcy (sp) of the system. So if you have water thats 50 degrees and it goes into the heat exchanger it enters the heat exchanger at 50 degrees but is going to come out of the HE warmer than if it wasnt there.