Callaway intercooler
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Most call for a 50/50 mix of antifreeze and distilled water. I'd use the least amount of antifreeze you can get by with. Look at your yearly minimum temps and only use enough a/f to protect to a little lower temp than that. Your coolant will do the best job of shedding heat when it doesn't have any a/f.
Tip: Use a different color a/f in your intercooler circuit vs your engine coolant. Easier to find the source of leaks that way.
Tip: Use a different color a/f in your intercooler circuit vs your engine coolant. Easier to find the source of leaks that way.
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The TVS2300 has intercooler coils in the super charger, then heat exchanger coil in the front cars raditor, with a reserve tank and pump that pumps the water/dexcool through this system to keep the coil in the super charger cool that the air is pulled through to cool the compressed air.
So if the reserve tank is empty, then the water/dexcool mix is leaking out of the system somewhere.
So in the super charger,
In the nose of the car,
And the system is kind of like this with the reserve tank and pump as well.
Most of the time is just a loose hose fitting that is allowing the water/dexcool to leak out, but if you took something sharp into the front of the car, could have punched a hole in the nose coil heat exchange raditor isntead.
As for mix of dexcool to water, all depends on your climate, and how cold it going to get in the winter that will determine the needed amount of dexcool in the water to keep the fluid from freezing. Hence less Dexcool than water percentage will allow the system to cool better, but you also chance the fluid freezing up in the winter with not enough Dexcool percentage instead.
I bring this up since if someone was just running water and water wetter only, and the car was somewhere that got below freezing temps, may have ruptured either the coil in the front nose of the car, or in the super charger when the water/water wetter mix only froze up.
Since one of the coils in in the super charger, if you are going to pressure test the system to find the leak, remove all the water from the system before hand. Hence if its the coil in the super charger that has a leak, you don't want the water/dexcool from the system dumping into the heads isntead.
Last edited by Dano523; Jun 3, 2018 at 05:30 PM.
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Most call for a 50/50 mix of antifreeze and distilled water. I'd use the least amount of antifreeze you can get by with. Look at your yearly minimum temps and only use enough a/f to protect to a little lower temp than that. Your coolant will do the best job of shedding heat when it doesn't have any a/f.
Tip: Use a different color a/f in your intercooler circuit vs your engine coolant. Easier to find the source of leaks that way.
Tip: Use a different color a/f in your intercooler circuit vs your engine coolant. Easier to find the source of leaks that way.
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Find the leak!!!!!!
The TVS2300 has intercooler coils in the super charger, then heat exchanger coil in the front cars raditor, with a reserve tank and pump that pumps the water/dexcool through this system to keep the coil in the super charger cool that the air is pulled through to cool the compressed air.
So if the reserve tank is empty, then the water/dexcool mix is leaking out of the system somewhere.
So in the super charger,
In the nose of the car,
And the system is kind of like this with the reserve tank and pump as well.
Most of the time is just a loose hose fitting that is allowing the water/dexcool to leak out, but if you took something sharp into the front of the car, could have punched a hole in the nose coil heat exchange raditor isntead.
As for mix of dexcool to water, all depends on your climate, and how cold it going to get in the winter that will determine the needed amount of dexcool in the water to keep the fluid from freezing. Hence less Dexcool than water percentage will allow the system to cool better, but you also chance the fluid freezing up in the winter with not enough Dexcool percentage instead.
I bring this up since if someone was just running water and water wetter only, and the car was somewhere that got below freezing temps, may have ruptured either the coil in the front nose of the car, or in the super charger when the water/water wetter mix only froze up.
Since one of the coils in in the super charger, if you are going to pressure test the system to find the leak, remove all the water from the system before hand. Hence if its the coil in the super charger that has a leak, you don't want the water/dexcool from the system dumping into the heads isntead.
The TVS2300 has intercooler coils in the super charger, then heat exchanger coil in the front cars raditor, with a reserve tank and pump that pumps the water/dexcool through this system to keep the coil in the super charger cool that the air is pulled through to cool the compressed air.
So if the reserve tank is empty, then the water/dexcool mix is leaking out of the system somewhere.
So in the super charger,
In the nose of the car,
And the system is kind of like this with the reserve tank and pump as well.
Most of the time is just a loose hose fitting that is allowing the water/dexcool to leak out, but if you took something sharp into the front of the car, could have punched a hole in the nose coil heat exchange raditor isntead.
As for mix of dexcool to water, all depends on your climate, and how cold it going to get in the winter that will determine the needed amount of dexcool in the water to keep the fluid from freezing. Hence less Dexcool than water percentage will allow the system to cool better, but you also chance the fluid freezing up in the winter with not enough Dexcool percentage instead.
I bring this up since if someone was just running water and water wetter only, and the car was somewhere that got below freezing temps, may have ruptured either the coil in the front nose of the car, or in the super charger when the water/water wetter mix only froze up.
Since one of the coils in in the super charger, if you are going to pressure test the system to find the leak, remove all the water from the system before hand. Hence if its the coil in the super charger that has a leak, you don't want the water/dexcool from the system dumping into the heads isntead.
