have you read the last "tech article" from Autospeed.com about the fusion intercooling ?
http://autospeed.com/cms/A_1815/article.html
That concept is pretty damn clever. In big, this concept only works on a car wich air-temp at the output of the turbo, when no boost, is bellow 50degres. Also this is only applicable on a daily driver car, wich boost spikes are relatively shorts.
In big, here's how it goes : If you take some frozen water (aka ice
) and melt it, the ice will slowly turn into water, and the water-ice mixture will never exceed 0°c until all the ice is melted. Then, take that ice, and put it into an intercooler. The temp of the intercooler will never exceed 0°c util the ice as melted. That ice intercooler is pretty nice for drag-racers, but the big disadventage is that melted water don't change back into ice after the race... hehe Replace Ice by a product that has a melting point of 50°c and put it into an intercooler (a water/air intercooler for example). This IC would then have a cooling "plateau" at around 50°c until all that magic product has melted (wich may take a few minutes). So if you put it in a normal turbo car (a legacy ?!), when you cruise on highway, off-boost, your air temp is bellow 50°c, no problem. You step on the gaz, Boost rise as do the temp of the air, runs through the intercooler where the melting process begins, it's temp. rizes at max 50°c during the melting process. Then you release gaz, you come back off-boost, temps goes back under 50°c, and the product changes back to solid, ready for another boost peak.
By using this product, you avoid that your intercooler temp rises along with the air that goes through it, heating the air after some time.
The magic product we are talking about is simply "paraphin wax" ... ! wich has a melting point of 52°c
What do you think of that ? . I think our legacy's turbo air is above 50 when off-bost.
