Added second trans cooler silverado 5.3.
Added second cooler to silvy today.. It was an all day affair I made custom supports, and lowered the stock cooler. I lowered the stock cooler as it was dead center with the chevy emblem on the gri...
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It is all about the laws of physics and what folks 'see' is only a small portion of what is going on...that there are reams of specifications that are based on even more reams of scientific data, both calculated and empirical...then the management factors (idiots only concerned with managing their beans than the product)
Take a human body. It has a temp range (specification) for standing still, sleeping, running at curb weight (butt naked) or running with the max spec'd backpack & gear (includes shoes, clothing, etc)
The human body has a cooling system and a computer to control that cooling system
The computer controls the muscles which create the heat and the rejection stuff. Like increasing the blood vessel diameter close to the exterior covering (AKA skin) to reject it via convection & radiation. The other main cooling mechanism is sweating (phase change) in conjunction with moving more blood to the skin...they both work in concert
Too cold and the human body can function, but not up to 100% power
Too hot and the human body can function, but not up to 100% power
Any automotive vehicle is similar but not with flesh and bone, but with metal and plastic
ATF has three main duties.
Heat is generated with pumping losses, friction and the biggie Hydraulic coupling in the TC
Then the endless opinions of whether the OEM stuff is good enough (it is...*IF*...the vehicle is used within the OEM specifications...of which few truly understand...and will toss in 'duty cycle rating' that even less understand)...whether a larger AUX cooler is a good/bad idea, whether to plumb that aux cooler before or after the main radiator, plumb a second external aux cooler in series or parallel, etc, etc, etc...
Take a human body. It has a temp range (specification) for standing still, sleeping, running at curb weight (butt naked) or running with the max spec'd backpack & gear (includes shoes, clothing, etc)
The human body has a cooling system and a computer to control that cooling system
The computer controls the muscles which create the heat and the rejection stuff. Like increasing the blood vessel diameter close to the exterior covering (AKA skin) to reject it via convection & radiation. The other main cooling mechanism is sweating (phase change) in conjunction with moving more blood to the skin...they both work in concert
Too cold and the human body can function, but not up to 100% power
Too hot and the human body can function, but not up to 100% power
Any automotive vehicle is similar but not with flesh and bone, but with metal and plastic
ATF has three main duties.
- Lubricate
- Transfer heat
- Hydraulic coupling (shear) in the TC
Heat is generated with pumping losses, friction and the biggie Hydraulic coupling in the TC
Then the endless opinions of whether the OEM stuff is good enough (it is...*IF*...the vehicle is used within the OEM specifications...of which few truly understand...and will toss in 'duty cycle rating' that even less understand)...whether a larger AUX cooler is a good/bad idea, whether to plumb that aux cooler before or after the main radiator, plumb a second external aux cooler in series or parallel, etc, etc, etc...
