n/a with an intercooler?
10-27-05, 01:25 AM
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n/a with an intercooler?
what do you think? if you just routed pipes to the intercooler from a cai? cuz the intercooler just cools down the air, and colder air is better? would it do anything?
10-27-05, 01:27 AM
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Ive never thought about that.. but I suppose if you had one lying around, I dont see any reason it WOULDNT work. though with it already coming from a CAI, I doubt it would cool down much more. maybe if it was a heat soaked SRI, but I donno.
anyone ahve any expert input?
anyone ahve any expert input?
10-27-05, 01:34 AM
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Not trying to sound mean, sorry. But I have never seen a point in it. Intercoolers serve a point in a turbo system because the air comming out is heated to several hundered degrees. IC/s are greatly effecient around these temps at reducing them. There no heated air in a NA system. esp a CAI system, the airs already at ambient temps entering the intake.
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10-27-05, 02:04 AM
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it would have no effect on a NA, a
s if you had a real cold air intake the air going into the intake would be the same as the outside air temp, then going threw hte intercooler it would be cooled by air the same temp as the air allready passing threw the cooler which does nothing,
then the intercooler only serves as an air intake restriction which hinders your performance!
s if you had a real cold air intake the air going into the intake would be the same as the outside air temp, then going threw hte intercooler it would be cooled by air the same temp as the air allready passing threw the cooler which does nothing,
then the intercooler only serves as an air intake restriction which hinders your performance!
10-27-05, 02:13 AM
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it would have no effect on a NA, a
s if you had a real cold air intake the air going into the intake would be the same as the outside air temp, then going threw hte intercooler it would be cooled by air the same temp as the air allready passing threw the cooler which does nothing,
then the intercooler only serves as an air intake restriction which hinders your performance!
s if you had a real cold air intake the air going into the intake would be the same as the outside air temp, then going threw hte intercooler it would be cooled by air the same temp as the air allready passing threw the cooler which does nothing,
then the intercooler only serves as an air intake restriction which hinders your performance!
10-27-05, 02:34 AM
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you would go slower
as the engine has to work HARDER to suck thru an intercooler that creates "pressure drop"
so before you are boosting 0psi,,, now you have 50mmHg of vacuum
thats what i had flooring it when the turbo was blown.... it is hard to suck air thru alllll those pipings and the cores...
as the engine has to work HARDER to suck thru an intercooler that creates "pressure drop"
so before you are boosting 0psi,,, now you have 50mmHg of vacuum
thats what i had flooring it when the turbo was blown.... it is hard to suck air thru alllll those pipings and the cores...
10-27-05, 08:41 AM
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Won't work. An intercooler in a turbo application works because the air flowing through the core of the intercooler is much hotter then ambient. Heat flows from a point of higher energy to a point of lower energy to try and maintain equilibrium. If both the air flowing through the core of the cooler and the ambient air flowing over it's fins are the same temperature (which they will be), then no cooling takes place. The engine also has to work harder to draw air through the intercooler, so you make less power.
Now, if you want to cool an intake charge on an NA, then water sprays, alcohol sprays and nitrous have been used successfully for many years.
Now, if you want to cool an intake charge on an NA, then water sprays, alcohol sprays and nitrous have been used successfully for many years.
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