Water to air intercooler

[jamesdem1123]

has anyone tried an intercooler like this?

at 700 cfm pressure drop is .10 (psi, percent??), cooling liquid at 110 degrees farenheit lowers intake to 191 degrees, dont know what pressure tho.


i hear good things about water to air, this one has little pressure drop and the inlet and outlet are on the same side. i want to mount it by the filter and move the filter to a custom intake box where the stock intercooler is, or use the stock intercooler as the radiator for the water/air unit.

any ideas?

 

[IJ.]

Porter has one on his Supra.

 

[supra90turbo]

Don't ask what his temps are though...

 

[IJ.]

Don't ask what his temps are though...

He doesn't know :aigo: !

 

[Joel W.]

He said "VERY cool all the time". I have to assume it's below 98.6.. LOL

 

[wingman]

you guys are bad :biglaugh:

 

[IJ.]

Maybe he meant like "Yo dude that's so cool aight"

 

[jamesdem1123]

what does the stock intercooler bring it down to compared to the water/air setup? major advantage i see to his setup is there is a whole lot less volume to fill and less restriction, where a stock intercooler has a major psi drop so to get the same boost at the manifold the turbo has to put out more pressure, more you raise the pressure the higher the temperature goes up before intercooler.

 

[hottscennessey]

damn.. FFIM with FMIC, or liquid to air IC. I want to get rid of some piping but Now i'm a little stuck.

 

[Suprapowaz!(2)]

what kind of liquid is running through that intercooler? it's not coolant from your radiator is it? where does it get its liquid source from?

 

[lanternman]

It uses coolant but runs on a seperate system than your radiator. It has its own heat exchanger and the fluid is kept much cooler than your main cooling system.

 

[hottscennessey]

generally, how big is the exchanger? Like a tranny fluid cooler? And is all the fluid stored in it, or is it stored in.. like a washer container? I'm really interested in this.

 

[jamesdem1123]

you can have a revevoir but u dont need one, if i go this route im gonna use a resevoir with a lid big enough to put ice in it, maybe dry ice but then u need a pressure vent. the heat exchanger is a little bigger than a tranny cooler, i think Ian has a water/air by PWR motorsports, but his is a tube design and he has alot of tubing (less than stock tho). I like this design becuase it uses almost no tubing at all=very quick spool time.

 

[jamesdem1123]

and also happy bday in 2 days in advance hottscennessey

 

[IJ.]

My heat exchanger is on the right.

 

[hottscennessey]

and also happy bday in 2 days in advance hottscennessey

Thanks! 19 years:bigthumb:

 

[supra90turbo]

Maybe he meant like "Yo dude that's so cool aight"

LOL!1!!
hahahaha

 

[souprat]

i read that you can use a pair of oil coolers as heat exchangers in an air to water ic system. but IJ's looks bigger than an oil cooler.

 

[IJ.]

Mine is 12.5"x 13" the cooler on the left is a B&M Oil cooler.

 

[Allan_MA70]

as great as water to air is can you really beet a huge fuck off air-air on ebay for like $100usd?