For those of you who don't know, I ordered one of the Magnum Powers supercharger kits a few weeks ago:
https://magnumpowers.com/product/ornare-et/
That thing puts out serious power. It makes the Boosted Tech and Sprintex units look like a complete joke.
Charles (the guy who builds these kits) was telling me that the only issue they've ever run into with them, is that in hotter climates like Texas and Arizona, they have had a few overheat.
He said that this was due to the fact that this supercharger kit utilizes a water to air aftercooler (and intercooler, but for a supercharger they are called aftercoolers). The heat exchanger to cool the charged air is placed in front of the A/C condenser, which as you know, is already in front of the radiator.
In addition, since the supercharger uses it's own independent drive pulley (that bolts on top of the crank pulley), the stock fan can no longer be used, and is replaced with an equivalent size SPAL electric fan.
He said he's never had any problem with his overheating in Oregon, but if I ever intend to travel somewhere hot, it would be a very good ideal to upgrade the radiator to a higher capacity, aluminum radiator.
Now normally I would be entirely against this, but I know these sorts of radiators do have their purpose in TJs. For instance, when you do a V8 swap, you always have to use some sort of aftermarket aluminum, high performance radiator.
I'm curious if anyone on here has any real world experience with performance aluminum radiators for the TJ, and if so, whether they have held up long term, or experienced issues? There's a lot of them out there, I just have no idea if any of them are any good.
Normally I would never stray from the stock radiator, but clearly my situation is different than most.
https://magnumpowers.com/product/ornare-et/
That thing puts out serious power. It makes the Boosted Tech and Sprintex units look like a complete joke.
Charles (the guy who builds these kits) was telling me that the only issue they've ever run into with them, is that in hotter climates like Texas and Arizona, they have had a few overheat.
He said that this was due to the fact that this supercharger kit utilizes a water to air aftercooler (and intercooler, but for a supercharger they are called aftercoolers). The heat exchanger to cool the charged air is placed in front of the A/C condenser, which as you know, is already in front of the radiator.
In addition, since the supercharger uses it's own independent drive pulley (that bolts on top of the crank pulley), the stock fan can no longer be used, and is replaced with an equivalent size SPAL electric fan.
He said he's never had any problem with his overheating in Oregon, but if I ever intend to travel somewhere hot, it would be a very good ideal to upgrade the radiator to a higher capacity, aluminum radiator.
Now normally I would be entirely against this, but I know these sorts of radiators do have their purpose in TJs. For instance, when you do a V8 swap, you always have to use some sort of aftermarket aluminum, high performance radiator.
I'm curious if anyone on here has any real world experience with performance aluminum radiators for the TJ, and if so, whether they have held up long term, or experienced issues? There's a lot of them out there, I just have no idea if any of them are any good.
Normally I would never stray from the stock radiator, but clearly my situation is different than most.