Revived; TMIC cooling options

[cwspellowe]

You need to make sure its a fine spray onto the intercooler, flooding it with water will make it worse.

Don't mean to sound like a bitch but do you have any evidence to support this? I ad always thought that because water gives a more effective heat transfer then the more water (and less air) you get the better the heat transfer.

Suggest you have a read of the laws of thermodynamics

The subsequent evaporation of the water mist means that the energy that was absorbed from the metal of the rad by the water is then lost to the atmosphere. This results in the overall kinetic energy of the structure being lower ie. temps colder than if it was just bathed in water alone.

Basically, water mist conducts heat energy away from TMIC, water heats up, evaporates, and lowers the temperature of the remaining water molecules.

If the TMIC is, for instance, dunked into water, heat is conducted away from the TMIC.. but thats all.

The lower volume of water would give a more drastic change in temperature as the water is allowed to evaporate quicker due to the higher surface area of a mist compared to a stream