Jackson Racing Water Cooling System

[quasi403]

Hey Tobi long time bud. You installed the JRSC on my prelude and its doing great btw. I have since upgraded the injectors and went to OBDI. I have also upgraded to a 9psi pulley by endyne. I was looking into some cooling systems and Jackson Racing has one, however they no longer carry it in stock. I have a chance to get it at a steal but the product states it will not work with Prelude SC. I called the tech guys at Jackson and they couldn't offer any reasons as to why it wouldn't work just that it doesn't. Is there a way to fabricate or customize it to work or should I just get something else. I can pick this up right now for $100 shipped. Retail is at $599.

[HONDA GHANDI]

Im not sure which kit you are referring to. Im sure it can be made to work but it might be more work than its worth. I would check out snow performance alcohol injection. From what I saw of it a few weeks ago it looked like a cool kit.

[rmcdaniels]

As far as I know the JR cooling system is an Aquamist System 1s. It's a universal system that can easily be made to work with any car:

http://www.aquamist.co.uk/cp/sys1/techsys1/diag/fig22.html

I used to have one and it wasn't worth the PITA of messing with it, although $100 is a good deal for one. I never could add enough timing to make enough power to justify he hassle of filling the water tank. You can probably ebay it for more than $100 if you don't like it though, so you may as well buy it.

The only thing you would need is a threaded hole in the intake manifold plenum to screw the jet into. Some JR manifolds have the hole and some don't. If yours doesn't, then you could easily drill/tap it, it's a small hole and the manifold is aluminum. Just make sure you put the hole somewhere that will get good distribution to all cylinders, mine was in the SC outlet stream.

[HONDA GHANDI]

The Prelude kit doesnt use a manifold, it has an adapter that bolts the blower directly to the bottom half of the factory manifold. At this pooint it is already divided for each cylinder making it difficult to distribute with one sprayer. That is probably why they dont have a kit for the luder.

[rmcdaniels]

That's right, I forgot how funky the Prelude setup is, I've only looked at one of them, and that plenum between the blower and the runners is too short for there to be any place for a jet that would distribute the spray evenly to all the runners. Could he spray it pre-TB? I know when my check-valve leaked water/methanol onto my rotors it blasted the coating off of them, but I think that was more a matter of the impact of big fat drops of liquid than anything else, maybe a mist of water would be less destructive?