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Originally Posted by xtn
Now that's a very interesting dataset. It appears that once you're at roughly 40mph or more that the post-cooler can get to and stay in the range of 102 plus or minus a couple degrees. So 15 degrees warmer than the presumably ambient pre-cooler air.
Except that presuming the pre-cooler air is ambient is probably a mistake, what with all the warm air coming off the radiator and flowing right up the windshield into the scoop.
xtn
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That's true... plus the temp sensor is only a few inches away from the valve cover... note how the temperature shoots up at the end of the dataset when I've shut the engine off in the garage...
I'm thinking of rigging up something to allow me to put the airspeed/temp sensor in the Cup roof scoop just behind the inlet grill... that would generate flow/temp readings vs. car speed without the other problems... and should show whether the radiator air flow is affecting inlet temperature in a significant way
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