water to air intercooler
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this is the one ive been thinking of
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thepope540
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I'm running one on my KL swap. I love it! Response is great, it keeps intake temps nice and low - generally within a few degrees of ambient and it made the entire intake plumbing super simple. The distance form the turbo to the throttle body is only about 14 inches with only one bend. Here's a somewhat recent shot of my engine bay
ImmortalSoul219
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Sweet keep updates. My cobalt ss water to air setup is sweet. I too thought about a setup for my MSP
ImmortalSoul219
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The hot charged air passes through a box with coolant passages in it with fins. This cools the charged air before it goes into the combustion chamber. Heres a youtube clip that illustrates it. This is a 2.0 ecotec supercharged engine but you get the idea. This setup has the coolant passages right in the intake manifold. So now the coolant is hot and is pumped through a intercooler. Supposed to be up to 20% more efficient then air to air setups.
You can see how the air comes into the supercharger were it is heats up from compressing it. Then passes into the intake manifold where the cooling passages are and cools the air as it enters the engine. A few different ways of doing it but all has the same concept.
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The optimal would be pure distilled water with something like Redline Water Wetter added to improve heat transfer. If you see freezing temps in your area though, add the required proportion of antifreeze for the temps you see.
Methanol only has about half the specific heat capacity as water, so you'd see much poorer performance. Maybe you're getting confused with a methanol injection system? Totally different operating principles... evaporative cooling (and octane boost) vs convective cooling.
Methanol only has about half the specific heat capacity as water, so you'd see much poorer performance. Maybe you're getting confused with a methanol injection system? Totally different operating principles... evaporative cooling (and octane boost) vs convective cooling.
So let's say outside temps are 60 smic drops them down to around 70 or so then the water to air could drop the rest down to either outside temps or just a tad lower could be sick to see.
As it stands now I have a jery riged fmic from a saab and my temps run between 15-20 higher then outside after long trips I can't wait to see # for the water to air..
As it stands now I have a jery riged fmic from a saab and my temps run between 15-20 higher then outside after long trips I can't wait to see # for the water to air..
I have no doubt that you can probably keep water temps close to ambient with a good heat exchanger. The efficiency of the core is going to be key... I suspect those frozenboost cores (which I have) are not quite on par with some of the more expensive ones. But if you throw in an ice box, you can likely make up for it.
