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Old 01-05-06, 03:38 AM
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Question About This Intercooler

The way i'm doing my IC piping setup both will enter/exit through the passnger side of the engine bay, and they have this one sided outlet intercooler on ebay, obviously its pretty much a dual pass, i'm guessing this would create a giant pressure drop/ boost response drop by doing this but itd also shorten up the piping by about 2-3 feet, any info, comments ideas etc would be great

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the shorter piping you would get will not make up for the loss of response youwill get with this intercooler. plus, your cold pipe will be exiting right over the hot pipe which will then always be heat soaking.

some people love this style, i'm not one of them. do you have to do it like this?
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Those flow terribly. Intercoolers with long end tanks and short tubes flow best because the velocity through the tubes is slower, which means less pressure drop. Because of the back-and-forth flow path that thing basically has very short end tanks (where the pipe connections are), very long tubes and an extra tank in the middle causing even more pressure drop. I wouldn't touch it...
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Alright, i'll scrap that then, the reason i HAVE to have the tubes through the same side is because i'm turboing my N/A and i'm keeping all the systems intact, Emissions,AC,PS everything, otherwise id just use custom manifolds or portmatched TII manifolds
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Anybody have any pearls of wisdom? Intercoolers i should look into, i think i'm just going to go with an ebay core
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There was a nifty front-mount in the FS section not long ago.
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