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Old 01-30-2003, 03:39 PM   #13
wlelandj
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It's a "air water intercooler with 3 laminova core tubes" (from his site). It's the Laminova cores, who's high efficiency allows for such a small package. As far as efficiency goes, I believe mmurry75 was referring to filling the reservoir with ice to acheive 100%+ eff. I think the key to these systems, for daily driving, is having a large fluid reservoir (a decent sized heat exchanger wouldn't hurt either). Remember, water can absorb something like 5 times more heat energy(if memory serves) then air. IMO, it's going to be harder then people think to raise the reservoir water temp, especially a large one. I wish he'd sell one seperate from the kit. I'd be willing to try it. My biggest fear would be for the electric water pump to burn out before I realized it Hey, it (Laminova a/w ic) was good enough for Mercedes and Ford uses 'em (a/w ic) in the Lightning and Cobra. Couldn't be too bad for daily driving.
-Leland
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