Heat Soak Solution?

[SuperStretch18]

I got to thinking today; to help avoid heat-soak, the Subaru WRX STI has a water spray attachment on its TMIC. Basically, under heavy load, you can (manually) spray a jet of water on the intercooler, which cools the metal as it evaporates. This got me to thinking about my CX-7 and whether this is a viable option to replacing the stock intercooler. I found the following article explaining the concept, but was also curious if anyone had any thoughts or has tried this.

http://autospeed.drive.com.au/cms/A_0527/article.html?popularArticle

Alternately, does anyone have an STI? Does this feature work well? Any insights are appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[FunkyBuddha]

You can get NX's intercooler sprayer. it sprays your fmic w/ nitrous (i think)

 

[GhostMercury]

it sprays it with co2

 

[lisevolution]

check out this thread... not sure how you would be able to apply this to the TMIC on the CX7 but at least start the gears working for you...

http://www.mazdas247.com/forum/showthread.php?t=73181&highlight=intercooler+spray

 

[SuperStretch18]

it sprays it with co2

Unfortunately, you probably wouldn't want to go using this under your hood for a top-mount IC. Residual CO2 in your intake is not a good thing.

check out this thread... not sure how you would be able to apply this to the TMIC on the CX7 but at least start the gears working for you...

http://www.mazdas247.com/forum/showthread.php?t=73181&highlight=intercooler+spray

This is actually a pretty sweet link. Thanks! I was thinking about an aftermarket solution, but being able to spend $20 at homedepot makes this even more attractive. I would want to run it separately from wipers though.

Still curious what type of performance bump you get with this type of system before I go cutting anything...

 

[lisevolution]

you can definitely make it work independently, you'd have to wire in a switch/relay somehow but it definitely can be done. Somebody on here did do that for their MSP I believe just don't remember who. In terms of performance, you're not going to see a huge jump, it's more a "cool" factor addition than anything else. The CO2 set ups or the Nitrous set up work much better but obviously cost a lot more than this would.

 

[spike blue]

Unfortunately, you probably wouldn't want to go using this under your hood for a top-mount IC. Residual CO2 in your intake is not a good thing.



This is actually a pretty sweet link. Thanks! I was thinking about an aftermarket solution, but being able to spend $20 at homedepot makes this even more attractive. I would want to run it separately from wipers though.

Still curious what type of performance bump you get with this type of system before I go cutting anything...

when you ready pm i will help you!!! I live in sunrise we can meet and start a cx-7 club or W/E!!!

 

[SuperStretch18]

when you ready pm i will help you!!! I live in sunrise we can meet and start a cx-7 club or W/E!!!

Sweeeet, there are starting to be alot of these around down here! Could probably get a good sized group going. I'll let you know once I start modding!
(drive2)
Thanks!

 

[SuperStretch18]

you can definitely make it work independently, you'd have to wire in a switch/relay somehow but it definitely can be done. Somebody on here did do that for their MSP I believe just don't remember who. In terms of performance, you're not going to see a huge jump, it's more a "cool" factor addition than anything else. The CO2 set ups or the Nitrous set up work much better but obviously cost a lot more than this would.

Agreed! I'm not looking to make huge horsepower, just trying to keep what I already have!

 

[spike blue]

awesome man!!! Im getting the ms3 soon about 2 months and i will give my cx-7 to my dad but i definitly into a cx-7 club !!!

 

[Killer]

When my buddy runs his wrx at the track between runs he just sits a big bag of ice on the intercooler....seems to work well.

 

[Int3grity]

My Bro has an evo MR and he has intercooler manual mist switch
works well but as someone mentioned everyone at the track uses bags of ice and gas powered fans similar to the ones fire company has.

 

[Dalton]

My Bro has an evo MR and he has intercooler manual mist switch
works well but as someone mentioned everyone at the track uses bags of ice and gas powered fans similar to the ones fire company has.

If ou want to go all out you can hook up one of these CO2 tanks...

You would need a CryO2 Tank and Installation Kit

And then you can add something like -> CryO2 Cryogenic Air Intake or -> CryO2 Intercooler Sprayer or both (headbang)

You can even have a Fuel line freezer (wow)

I wonder how much Hp would you gain? (scratch)

 

[lisevolution]

The HP gain is pretty minimal from any of these types of set ups, what it does more is ensure that you don't heat-soak as quickly as stock enabling you to maintain the hp you have rather than losing it to super heated charge air.

 

[lisevolution]

Here's a link to a kit for this.... http://mazda3online.web.aplus.net/product_info.php?products_id=977