MadMatt wrote:Tyler wrote:MadMatt wrote:
Also I cannot see any intercooler, only some sort of heat exchanger (the bottles on the top of the engine). How effective is this, does anybody know? ?
Quality of the car looks nice, but honestly its not worth 1 million $ !
Just my 2 cents...
It does have an intercooler.
This video discusses the cooling quite a lot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH5ZmBtw97k
No I'm sorry it doesn't. If you look at the picture from the engine, you can see that after the turbos, the air is going through "heat exchangers" and then goes directly to the engine. I think what is refered to here is the cooler for the liquid of the heat exchanger. I think they did that because they had not the space to mount proper intercoolers in the engine bay (which is strange but still).
What I am interested to know is the efficiency of such air-cooling system, as you don't see this often !
Don't misunderstand me, the car is nice, I'm not criticizing it for fun, but I don't know like how it is presented (typical US style). And comparing a Veyron with this car is nearly an insult. The Veyron is capable of much more speed and acceleration (until the Venom has proved me wrong), it has much more class, warranty is of course better, building quality of a Veyron is just second to none, while this is more like a racecar build for the road, although it is nicely made !
Same goes for the Koenigsegg. You cannot compare these cars which are BRAND NEW cars, not taken from an existing basis, and compare them with a highly upgraded Lotus.
Read here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercooler
It doesn't matter what you call it, they all do the same thing and are all heat exchangers.
The water cooled type are used in rear or mid engined cars due to the lack of space and no effective airflow for an air-air type, this also means that some weight is transferred to the front of the car and are very effective in drag cars or ones used for just a short period of time (sprint or hillclimb in the UK).
The ones pictured are made by PWR, they term them 'Barrel coolers'.
1200kg isn't very light for a car like this, but I guess it isn't very serious in what it does - I mean, it's a halfway house between track and road and is neither.
