water wrap?

Douglas G Vincent · Post by **Douglas G Vincent** » Sun Aug 08, 2004 9:36 am

Ok, if I want to intercool my supercharger set up, this involves A- an intercooler, B- repiping the entire intake C- the time and money to do both.

Since I havent shown the photes yet, the intake pipe just runs about a 2.5 lenght with about 1.5" straight. I was thinking how to cool this off for when I actually manage to get it hot. Maybe a water bladder wrapped around the pipe, with a radiator and pump located elsewhere.

This obviously would not work as great as a real intercooler, but then again I am not running 15lbs of boost through a red hot turbo.

I think this would help in keeping the engine heat sink problems down, not necessarily getting the air ice cold. I say this because my intake gets real hot, even without running the supercharger, and I suspect this is just from absorbing exhaust and engine heat.

EJ20TMAN · Post by **EJ20TMAN** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 8:26 am

I dont think this would do shiz all as how much air are u pulling heat out of by cooling down the pipe, not much i tell u. Prolly more worth it putting in a proper intercooler

BAC5.2 · Post by **BAC5.2** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 5:18 pm

You seem to be extremely handy, so I'd suggest a small, inline, Air-air-intercooler with a scoop cut out of the hood.

Now, how to make a small, inline, AAIC?

Simple. Junkyard. Find a SAAB 900, preferably an 85 that has an all aluminum IC.

Cut the end tanks off, and cut out about 5 to 10 channels. Get some sheet aluminum and weld it to the ends and make some 2.5" inlet/outlet bits. Run it inline, and maybe mist it with winshield washer fluid to keep temps down.

-K- · Post by **-K-** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 8:24 pm

I don't think it would be worth doing the pipe jacket thing. I'd think about doing a good IC when you have funds.
Turbos don't glow red on the cold side, it's compressing the air that makes most of the heat.

BAC5.2 · Post by **BAC5.2** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 9:38 pm

-K- is right. I've opened my hood after a HARD drive and I can see my turbo glowing red

THAWA · Post by **THAWA** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 3:49 am

you're also at like 15 psi

douglas vincent · Post by **douglas vincent** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 5:06 am

If any of my stuff starts to glow red, CALL THE FIRE DEPARTMENT!

After looking at my intake again, I am going to (down the road) do an inline intercooler, probably watercooled. This will be alot easier and cheaper than doing a FMIC.

As you can see, their is plenty of room to cutout the long section and fill in with an IC. There is actually alot more room than the picture suggests. The other option is to rework the intake some more and snake the intake a little to allow a longer,wider IC.

I did drill out the hood today to allow for some air cooling of the piping. I need to fab up a diagonal scoop now of some sort.

evolutionmovement · Post by **evolutionmovement** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 5:24 am

You could do NACA ducts in the hood like the Lamborghini Espada used for vent air.

Steve

THAWA · Post by **THAWA** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 5:53 am

why dont you just use a saab 900 for now? it looks setup just right for it.

douglas vincent · Post by **douglas vincent** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 6:04 am

Maybe I will win this one! pretty perfect!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayI ... ename=WDVW

-K- · Post by **-K-** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 1:39 pm

You could use a Subaru IC easy enough. You can pick up a air-water for $100-150 and they look like they belong there, real clean.

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water wrap?

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