This is Dave's current system. He is not entirely happy
with the water cooling.
Air flows through the inter cooler on the left side and the oil
cooler on the right side and then through the 2 inch thick rad
mounted below the engine and out the exit below the cowl.
The air is also heated by passing over the turbo charger
and exhaust manifold before it flows through the rad.

Does anybody have any suggestions what Dave could to to improve
the water cooling?

Oil cooling and inter cooling are fine.

Leave the oil cooler and intercooler ducted & positioned as-is. Leave
the radiator positioned as-is, but add a chin scoop and duct to the
current backside of the radiator. Let the airflow through the radiator
be reversed from the current pathway. Add vents on the top of the cowl
slightly ahead of the firewall. If the windscreen is near the firewall,
that area of the cowl should be a lower pressure area (compared to the
rest of the cowl; it's still high relative to the static port).

Russell Kent


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