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Old Oct 20, 2009 | 09:20 AM
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I was wondering if I may get some experienced opinions on a possibly cooling mod for my set-up and wanted to run my ideas by any who may be able to comment with experience with this or just your thoughts on my idea.

I was mainly trying to get anyone’s thoughts on a possible A/C heat exchanger relocate behind teh radiator. If teh heat exchanger were behind teh radiator would there be enough exchange to cool teh A/C exchanger to operate efficiently enough to cool teh car. I would not expect it to work as well as is does when being teh first point of contact, but most keep there’s behind their FMIC and I assume still work efficiently enough.

***This is FI related but got zero feedback from that forum***
Two ideas fuel teh thought to relocate teh A/C heat exchanger. First is for esthetics and a somewhat more stealthy approach. I feel without teh exchanger in front of teh radiator, I would have teh ability to move my FMIC further back in hopes to conceal it a little bit better. Secondly, cooling in order from front to back, this changes teh idea from a cooling perspective. FMIC > Radiator > Heat Exchanger

A/C being teh last thing that I am worried about cooling but living in a state too hot to delete, I put this last to be cooled. To accomplish this I thought to use pushers for fans instead of pullers on teh radiator allowing me to mount it fairly close to the radiator on the backside. So cooling can be focused on FMIC, radiator and then teh heat exchanger. With some recent measuring and obviously a little cutting, I feel I also can maximize teh size of FMIC within teh space being provided be relocating teh heat exchanger elsewhere.

So on to my original question:

What is everyone’s thoughts on teh cooling factor teh A/C heat exchanger would be able to provide behind teh radiator vs. in front of it? Those who still have their heat exchanger behind their FMIC, are you seeing a difference in cooling when running you’re A/C on a warm day where A/C is needed?

Please share an ideas or constructive criticism here as I am just playing with ideas for cooling and would enjoy any advise anyone may provide, good or bad and possible things I may have not considered when thinking this out.

Thanks in advance,

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Old Oct 21, 2009 | 12:36 AM
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I thinking the A/C condenser behind the radiator would impede air flow resulting in less effective engine cooling.

I'd leave it as is but paint the FMIC black.
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Old Oct 21, 2009 | 07:25 AM
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Originally Posted by OKSTWOK,Oct 20 2009, 09:20 AM
To accomplish this I thought to use pushers for fans instead of pullers on teh radiator allowing me to mount it fairly close to the radiator on the backside.
You misspelled teh
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Old Oct 21, 2009 | 09:45 AM
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Originally Posted by triddle,Oct 21 2009, 07:25 AM
You misspelled teh
The word The is used 21 times on this post and to be quite honest, I'm not exactly sure why most spell it as "teh". Possibly for search tool purposes? I only do this as most of the avid posters on this forum do this, so for this you could say I’m a bit of a follower but not exactly sure of its purpose.
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