I have an 18 GT with a 10 speed and have really been bitten by the HPDE bug. On occasion the tranny temp will get up to around 250. It normally runs 210ish on the track, but on larger tracks with more turns (I was at NCM last weekend) it got pretty hot quick as it was working overtime.
I was thinking about adding an additional remote cooler with the fan controlled via a thermostat ground switch like my full tilt boogie rear diff cooler set up as that works very slick for the rear diff. My questions are about mounting the remote cooler. I don't want to add more "stacked" coolers to impede air flow to the current coolers and was thinking about mounting a remote cooler perpendicular to the radiator/condenser behind the crash bar. I was thinking this because the area is pretty open and I could build a bracket to mount to the crash bar itself. As air flowed over the top of the crash bar through the upper grill section, when the them controller kicked the fan on I would think it would pull air from that area and blow it downward. This way it had cooler air around this area to tap into for the fan pickup etc.
The other area of interest was in front of the passenger side wheel well as it has a bit of open area in that section but no real natural air flow to that area. Anyone who has ideas or expertise in building and working on cooling systems I would appreciate your input on this conversation.
I like keeping things cool and at ideal operation temps as I know it needs that to live so this is why I am interested in doing this versus blowing it up and letting warranty deal with it. lol Thanks in advance!
I was thinking about adding an additional remote cooler with the fan controlled via a thermostat ground switch like my full tilt boogie rear diff cooler set up as that works very slick for the rear diff. My questions are about mounting the remote cooler. I don't want to add more "stacked" coolers to impede air flow to the current coolers and was thinking about mounting a remote cooler perpendicular to the radiator/condenser behind the crash bar. I was thinking this because the area is pretty open and I could build a bracket to mount to the crash bar itself. As air flowed over the top of the crash bar through the upper grill section, when the them controller kicked the fan on I would think it would pull air from that area and blow it downward. This way it had cooler air around this area to tap into for the fan pickup etc.
The other area of interest was in front of the passenger side wheel well as it has a bit of open area in that section but no real natural air flow to that area. Anyone who has ideas or expertise in building and working on cooling systems I would appreciate your input on this conversation.
I like keeping things cool and at ideal operation temps as I know it needs that to live so this is why I am interested in doing this versus blowing it up and letting warranty deal with it. lol Thanks in advance!