trans cooler plumbing

[zooguy]

so i am going to put my stall in the 94 soon and i want to do a trans cooler ... i will be running in series with the cooler in the radiator ... but i cant remember is it the top line on the radiator where the fluid goes in and out the bottom port. and i run the cooler AFTER the radiator right?

[popo8]

Cahall

[CPT]

Your bottom line at the trans is your feed to the radiator. leave that line alone. The top line at the radiator is the one you will want to interupt. You'll come out of the top port to the external cooler. Out of the external cooler and connect with original top line, going back to the trans.

Frank

[zooguy]

so the trans "pushes" the fluid up the rad through the cooler inside then in to the one that i will add ... seems like that would make more pressure rather than the other way do you think?


i know you have done WAY WAY more testing then i have so i am not disputing what you saying ... but it just seems odd

[firebird_1995]

Generally when dealing with fluids through a heat exchanger, you plumb the supply (feed) line in the bottom first and push it out the top. This prevents the fluid from becoming aerated in the exchanger.

[SSlowBoat]

^ what he said

[shownomercy]

^this, and you need a pressure drop to slow it down to exchange heat. The pressure across the cooler will actually lose a few psi believe it or not. If a fluid be it any type just rushed thru a cooler, it wouldn't expel enough heat fast enough for the cooler to work. The fluid must have some amount of time to be in contact and expel heat to the heat exchanging medium, in this case, the metal cooler tubes and fins

Fairly certain the "time spent in the heat exchanger needs to be long" is an old internet thing carried over from old SBC days. Faster fluid flow means more turbulence and better heat transfer. But, pump flow is fairly set in stone so this is all moot unless you change line diameter and run some huge ass cooler.

[SSlowBoat]

Run it as explained earlier, and spray that 200

[zooguy]

Run it as explained earlier, and spray that 200

Oh don't worry ... Got 200 coming ... A few things do need to be addressed beforehand

[popo8]

Oh don't worry ... Got 200 coming ... A few things do need to be addressed beforehand
Can u mount ur go pro under the hood?

[zooguy]

Sure will ... just for you popo