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does your blower get hot

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Blackone51

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Hey was wondering how hot does everyones centi blower get?
 

98COBRA281

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my friend has a vortec on his fox, and he can fry an egg on it.... so yeah, they get hot............
 
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they get hot because the blower is compressing all the air in it so the heat has to go somewhere.
 

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98COBRA281 said:
my friend has a vortec on his fox, and he can fry an egg on it.... so yeah, they get hot............
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Not that it doesn't in fact get really hot, but you could fry an egg on the engine as well.

I thought about buying one of those ice cube/block things and setting it on my PD blower after track runs. Would be funny
 

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Mine gets pretty damn hot. Probably hot enough to fry an egg as previously mentioned..
 

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The positive displacement blowers are especially bad about heat soaking. They generally sit right on top of the engine valley, collecting the heat rising off the engine. The intercooler systems for PD blowers are pretty marginal too. Nothing like big air-air front mount intercooler, but that's not possible with a positive displacement blower.
 

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bhuff30 said:
The positive displacement blowers are especially bad about heat soaking. They generally sit right on top of the engine valley, collecting the heat rising off the engine. The intercooler systems for PD blowers are pretty marginal too. Nothing like big air-air front mount intercooler, but that's not possible with a positive displacement blower.
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It depends. Some PD intercoolers can work pretty well - like dual ones for each back such as the Edlebrock e-force. Mine, for example, was redevelpoed as dual pass due to the problems you described being an inhibitor on the amount of air a TVS blows.
One fact that on their side is that air-to-water is more efficient that air-to-air, and if you have a heat exchanger the size of a intercooler up front with a nice intercooler below the blower it can work pretty well. Although you are correct that its position is certainly not helping things.
 

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Mine used to get really hot, now that I got the intercooler I am not sure how it is now.
 

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BlownStangGT said:
Mine used to get really hot, now that I got the intercooler I am not sure how it is now.
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Intercooler cools the air coming out of the blower, not the blower itself.
 

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it's normal to get VERY hot!! you dont wanna touch the blower after a 20 min drive!
 
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Mine gets very hot, hot enough to fry an egg I am sure.
 

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Hot...? When you got a rocket booster in your engine, what do you expect?
 

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GDawg said:
Hot...? When you got a rocket booster in your engine, what do you expect?
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I figured hot but I didn't realize egg frying hot Thanks for all the feedback.
 
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