Today im mainly making a ......

[marc.l]

Aluminium boot tank for the s211 seven seater . A standard ice tank won't fit due to the brace that holds the floor in the 3rd row .

Aluminium marked out , some 3 mm sheets ( 18 I found in skip !!! )

 

[marc.l]

One corner cut and used as template for the other side

 

[marc.l]

Photo

 

[marc.l]

Cut size with a jig saw , and will true all the cuts up on a 24" belt sander

 

[marc.l]

As it fits in here , it needs a cut out in the top

 

[wemorgan]

what's going inside this tank?

 

[marc.l]

what's going inside this tank?

Water for the killer chiller to cool the charge cool .

Baffle plates cut .

 

[marc.l]

Baffles cut to size

 

[marc.l]

Next job is to cot holes in the baffles to allow the water to flow around the tank

 

[marc.l]

Holes cut in baffle to make the water travel through the water tank .

Next is to cut a hole to fit a rule 2000 sump pump

 

[Cyclone1]

Can you make me one please?

Jules

 

[marc.l]

End panels bending and cutting

 

[marc.l]

Can you make me one please?

Jules

Hi jules

Got enough alloy , a local guy will weld it for you (about £30/40 ) , you can borrow my cutter and if this one turns out ok will help you make one .

 

[Deleted member 6183]

Water for the killer chiller to cool the charge cool .

Sounds great.










What does it do?

 

[marc.l]

What dose it do .......
Any super charged car compresses air to increase the density and pressure , when you compress air it generates heat . Increasing boost is quite easy on forced induction but the more boost you add you also add heat . This in turn leads to higher air in take temperatures . the cooler the intake temperature the better , as it stops detonation ( pinking or knocking ) -and allows the use of more timing advance and thus ( not quite as simple as that , but ....) more power .
The other problem with the e55 is heat soak causing the ignition to retard and finnaly cutting the super charger , this should lower the charge cool temperature and make the car able to handle increased boost with out heat soak

 

[Cyclone1]

Hi jules

Got enough alloy , a local guy will weld it for you (about £30/40 ) , you can borrow my cutter and if this one turns out ok will help you make one .

Thanks.

I'll be in touch.

Jules.

 

[SavMan]

Marc

Looks great, couple of things to bear in mind

Try to keep the tank below 5 gallons / 23 litre ideally you want it around 4 gallons / 18 litre's. To much liquid will take longer for KC to lower the temp of the water and will add unnecessary weight.

Fit some form of breather, I used a fuel tank two ball valve on the tank.

For the hoses try to use without any joins if you can between each point in the system, if you have to use joiners use flared ends which will help stop leaks. I used heavy duty heater hose which should be good for longevity but is difficult to manipulate, Silicon is an alternative and is more flexible.

You will love the difference it makes the power is more consistent and repeatable.

 

[marc.l]

Marc

Looks great, couple of things to bear in mind

Try to keep the tank below 5 gallons / 23 litre ideally you want it around 4 gallons / 18 litre's. To much liquid will take longer for KC to lower the temp of the water and will add unnecessary weight.

Fit some form of breather, I used a fuel tank two ball valve on the tank.

For the hoses try to use without any joins if you can between each point in the system, if you have to use joiners use flared ends which will help stop leaks. I used heavy duty heater hose which should be good for longevity but is difficult to manipulate, Silicon is an alternative and is more flexible.

You will love the difference it makes the power is more consistent and repeatable.

Thanks Paul , should have spoke to you first , so what I may do is cut the depth of the tank and make it flat topped . It will be way easier to weld . It will still hold 7.5 gallons . Might look at splitting the tank into a 4 gallon cooler tank and a 3.5 gallon meth tank .

 

[SavMan]

Thanks Paul , should have spoke to you first , so what I may do is cut the depth of the tank and make it flat topped . It will be way easier to weld . It will still hold 7.5 gallons . Might look at splitting the tank into a 4 gallon cooler tank and a 3.5 gallon meth tank .

Try to keep the depth if you can the on a spirited drive the water will move around quite a bit although your baffle design will help with this, using one of the deeper sides for a meth setup make for a great setup. Only word of caution is that meth and alloy are not great friends but its still useable, you could use one of the deeper sides to house two plastic tanks and the meth pump. This works really well as you can use one tank to feed the other which will also stop surging.

Take a look at this setup for meth you could build a similar setup in one of your deeper sides.

Howerton Engineering, LLC ? Howerton Engineering Tanks

You could also fit a 6 inch inspection panel on the top of each of the remaining two sections, use one for access to the pump and the one on the other enclosure to fill with ice cubes. That way on a 1/4 mile or high speed run you can kick start the KC cooling with ice to reduce the amount of time needed to cool.

Looks like you will have a great setup.

Don't forgot to fit a drain as well, have a boss welded so you can fit a tap. Mine exits under the car where I can also fit a hose underneath the car to flow the fluid into a container which is important if you use a coolant mix.

You can also fit a sensor as a safety measure to flag low fluid levels (you will need one for your meth kit anyway so worth thinking ahead)

Good luck looks like you are building a monster wagon there

 

[Deleted member 6183]

What dose it do .......
Any super charged car compresses air to increase the density and pressure , when you compress air it generates heat . Increasing boost is quite easy on forced induction but the more boost you add you also add heat . This in turn leads to higher air in take temperatures . the cooler the intake temperature the better , as it stops detonation ( pinking or knocking ) -and allows the use of more timing advance and thus ( not quite as simple as that , but ....) more power .
The other problem with the e55 is heat soak causing the ignition to retard and finnaly cutting the super charger , this should lower the charge cool temperature and make the car able to handle increased boost with out heat soak

Got it, great work!