Al
Let's see, I'm
pulling 3.6 amps, and Todd is pulling 4.3 amps. What does your
calculator say he can safely cool? Maybe 35 hp ??? Hmmm, I
sure thought his turbo engine would be putting out more power than that :-)
I'll run a ground
test next weekend, and will have a pretty good idea of how it compares to the
mechanical pump. I'm absolutely confident that I can cool far more
than 30 hp, and if you could hear the flow of water through the engine when the
EWP is on, you'd throw that calculator in the trash :-)
Cheers,
Rusty (undaunted by
disbelievers)
Rusty;
That’s going to be little tough; I
did the calculation in my headJ.
I’m not saying you can’t run
to higher power – in fact, I’m sure you can. The key word is “safely”,
and maybe one should add “long-term”. Unless you are
measuring some internal temps, how do you know when you start getting boiling
around the plugs, or high thermal stresses in other areas?
Just something to consider. When
you do your runs, I’d suggest monitoring inlet and outlet temps. If they
get to be more than 40-50 F different, I wouldn’t bother going any
further. Why risk it?
Al (question everything; go ahead, prove
me wrong)