OK, so there's life out there! Thanks guys, I was starting to feel like the retarded fat kid in the corner nobody liked. Hey wait a minute; I'm having a flashback.
Tim:
The radiator is a custom 10-core jobber in the nose;
http://www.racesystems.com/cobra/images/radiator2.jpg it's about 4" thick. I know how hard it can be to cool Cobras and went nuts on the radiator. The coolant system holds nearly 8 gallons of coolant. The nice part about being centrifugally supercharged, there is not much going on in the cruise/idle range; not much additional engine load and not much additional intake heat. The blower is very inefficient at low rpm, and with the bypass valve open it should not present much loading/heating. The intake air temperature at wide-open throttle running 8ish psi of boost (I doubt I need more!) should be around 130deg F on a 70deg day. With my 7.88:1 compression ratio; there will be no need for an intercooler unless you wanted more power. At 14+psi, sure an intercooler would help make it more tunable on pump gas but if I ever run that kind of boost, I'll spring for good race fuel. My guess is I'll never run that much boost; the internals of the engine are safe to around 1000fwhp. Beyond that, I'm rolling the dice. I may do it once or twice on the dyno for grins; but as far as actually driving it on the street at wide-open with 1000hp? I don't think there's much point...again; maybe once for grins; then I'll crank down the blow-off valve.
For fans, I plan on using a pair of 1500cfm pusher Spals. The 2300cfm 16" fan I purchased won't fit as a puller. West Coast put the sway bar behind the radiator; and with the additional radiator thickness things just don't fit. I hope the twin pushers will do the job. If not, I'll have to get creative. I've considered moving the swaybar. The only thing I really know is that I can idle the car in the driveway for about 20-30 minutes with the fan seen in the video (and no radiator fan) and it plateaus at about 160deg F. However, it was considerably lean at the time. It warms up faster now that I put more fuel in it...I don't really know if I have a problem or not; but at the moment I'd have to say it idles well.
Oh, and by the way, this thing runs a 55gallon/minute Meziere remote water pump. All that water flow at idle most likely helps as well. If you need any armchair input on cooling system stuff, I've done a lot of recent research on 385 series cooling and am happy to tell you what I know about it. In addition, I happen to own a bunch of fans (2 pushers, 2 pullers, a 16" puller) if you want to try anything like that. It could be helpful for diagnosis. I live in San Jose.
Terry:
Thanks! I hope you're right. I'm honestly excited and at the same time a bit scared; this is one of those "gee it seemed like a good idea at the time" projects. I was extremely nervous during the start-up; which didn't get any better once it actually started...my god, what a monster. It's going to be a hand full to say the least. I think I'm going to have to put additional baffle plates in the exhaust as well; even with 32" long custom lo-baks, the car is still marginal for sound. I'm not sure I can street this thing without getting into trouble.
LETSRCE: Thanks for the obligatory good-buddy comment, you are indeed a good friend. As far as whose car is faster; I'll sandbag and let you win every time; that's what friends are for.
I promise, I won't make you look like an F-Body.
More project pics at
http://www.racesystems.com/cobra if someone has nothing to do for an hour. LOL
Byron