Cool Fin & Wind Master Heat Dissipating Accessories

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ARC Japan's Cool Fin & Wind Master for super effective heat dissipation

When you fill a metal engine with fuel and air hundreds of times a second and make it explode, the whole thing is going to get very hot. To stop it all from melting into a fused lump of steel and aluminium, all engines must have some method of keeping them cool. Moreover, in most cases, it is beneficial to enhance heat dissipation from those hot components in order to gain power, torque & fuel economy. For air cooling to work, you need 2 things - fins (lots of them) & good airflow. ARC Japan launched 2 innovative accessories to achieve just that. They are Cool Fin & Wind Master.

Cool Fin is a heat-dissipating product that has a heat-conductive 3M adhesive tape in the back. Just cut & adhere it to any surface that you desire to reduce heat. Cool Fin aids in transferring heat away from the surface very effectively. Think of the microprocessor chip & its surrounding heat fin inside your PC. Cool Fin can drop as much as 10°C under real-life engine bay environment. It is affordable, universal, flexible, cuttable & versatile for countless applications. Align Cool Fin such that its fins are all parallel with the direction of airflow.

Some suggested areas to chill include but not limited to:

Air intake to achieve better cold air induction: The air in your engine bay is hot - really hot - and hot air is not conducive to good combustion. By dissipating heat using the Cool Fin & Wind Master, you get cooler air going into your engine. Because cooler air is denser, you can get a better fuel-air charge into the cylinder. Cold-air intake kits have been proven to add another 3 or 4hp of raw power to the engine but more often than not, you'll notice an increase in torque lower down the rev range too.
Oil pan: To some extent, all engines have oil-cooling, it's one of the engine oil functions - to transfer heat away from the moving parts and back to the sump where fins on the outside of the sump can help dissipate that heat out into the air. But for some engines, the oil system itself is designed to be a more efficient cooling system. As the oil moves around the engine, at some points it's directed through cooling passageways close to the cylinder bores to pick up heat. From there it goes to an oil radiator placed out in the airflow to disperse the heat into the air before returning into the core of the engine. Reducing the temperature of your transmission and engine oil will extend the life of your transmission, engine & components. Engine oil acts as a coolant as well as a lubricant. If oil is allowed to get too hot, horsepower drops, varnishes form, and oil starts to break down. Our cooling products offer longer life to engines and components, and reduce the stress created by high performance engine modifications. Also suitable as heavy duty transmission oil coolers.
Transmission: Tests have proven that a 20 degree drop in transmission fluid temperature can double the life of automatic transmission components. Cooler tranny oil gives more reliable, consistent shifts under racing conditions, and prevents transmission damage under extreme towing conditions. These coolers provide a reliable means of cooling your auto transmission.
Radiator or somewhere along its circuit: Water cooling is by far the most common method of cooling a hot engine down. With water cooling, a coolant mixture is pumped around pipes & passageways inside the engine separate to the oil, before passing out to a radiator. The radiator itself is made of metal, and it forces the coolant to flow through long passageways each of which have lots of metal fins attached to the outside giving a huge surface area. The coolant transfers its heat into the metal of the radiator, which in turn transfers the heat into the surround air through the fins - essentially just like the air-cooled engine fins.
Fuel Line: Cooler fuel increase horsepower, minimizes vapor lock. Cooler oil to the turbo bearings also minimizes coking & failure. Other uses include: differential and power steering cooling if applicable.

Where NOT to chill if you want to maximize fuel economy:

Fuel line: To achieve good fuel economy, it's beneficial to warm the fuel line moderately. The colder the fuel, the larger the fuel fragments. Why do you suppose mileage drops as the temperature gets colder? This is the opposite of what we want. But this does not automatically mean the hotter the fuel, the better the MPG. No, because too much heat (over 270°F) may damage fuel molecules and cause knock. Random or uncontrolled breaking of fuel molecules is no good, according to what BrightGreen.us have learned since 1959. It is quite apparent that large fuel fragments cause inefficient combustion. The optimum fuel temperature is close to 200°F.

Wind Master is another heat dissipating accessory made by ARC Japan. In order to improve intercooler- & oil-cooling efficiency, it is important to divert fresh cold air for heat exchange. But in many cases, owner disrupts this optimal airflow after installing a different intercooler, oil cooler or after installing aftermarket front bumper. Wind Master is an air duct that re-diverts airflow to wherever you desire. They can be installed in the wheel base, or on the hood for better engine & brake rotor cooling.