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I rigged up a little deal with my windshield washer system today to squirt my intercooler. It involved four zip ties, two squirters and some small sections of hose. I didn't notice a significant drop in pressure either.

My question is how corrosive or destructive is winshield washer fluid to the intercooler?

can you post pic, I was planning to do the same thing.

It's not really corrosive/destructive.

windshield washer fluid is just soap and may contain some alcohol....not sure about that though.

Worst thing I think that could happen is you squirt the intercooler, run through dust and your intercooler gets dirty/caked

Most windshield washer fluid doesn't have soap in it. It's actually a relatively untainted mixture of water and methanol (plus a little bit of blue dye). The mixture is actually great for intercooler spraying, better than straight water. It's what I used when I ran the Saab intercooler.

Just make sure you get the plain cheap blue stuff... You certainly don't want any of that Rain-X stuff or whatever.

I'll get a pic up soon. It was quite easy to do.

I wanna see this. I guess I'll see it today though. If it's real easy I might do it for the F&S.

just curious, would it be worth while to do a drain pan underneath the intercooler. It would also serve as a heat sheild to help keep the heat from the engine and turbo and when you spray the winshiield liquid, it will prvent spray all over the wiring underheath.

Upon looking at what was done, there needs to be more modifications. The sprayers need to be off of a 96 I think. I guess they spray in a circle as opposed to a jet. My original setup was rushed and was actually squirting through the fins.

I think I remember a post with the part # for STi IC sprayers. I think they were pretty cheap as well. I'd give the local Subaru dealership a try and see what they cost. I'd rather run something that was made for the job.

It's a ghetto squirter. It probably doesn't do a whole lot in reality. You can get cryo sprayers and what not if you want to go all out.

I like the CryO2 intake air cooler. Used CO2 in a bulb in the intake tract. It was shaped so it didn't hinder air flow, and just ran compressed CO2 through it.

They also have a fuel rail cooler to cool down the fuel before it gets injected......

Here is the part number for the STi Sprayers: ZX58794WZ353

They usually list for about $9 each on subaruparts.com, was considering doing this once I get my IC installed.

John

IronMonkeyL255 wrote:I like the CryO2 intake air cooler. Used CO2 in a bulb in the intake tract. It was shaped so it didn't hinder air flow, and just ran compressed CO2 through it.

They also have a fuel rail cooler to cool down the fuel before it gets injected......

Does the CO2 vent once it goes through the bulb? That's what I thought, however someone mentioned it was recircing back to the tank.....and I just don't see how that'd work....

IronMonkeyL255 wrote:I like the CryO2 intake air cooler. Used CO2 in a bulb in the intake tract. It was shaped so it didn't hinder air flow, and just ran compressed CO2 through it.

They also have a fuel rail cooler to cool down the fuel before it gets injected......

Saw that cry02 intake air cooler in a magazine i've had for a while. I was looking at it earlier tonight, looked pretty cool.

They've just got a system by where you can hook up a fuel rail cooler, an intake tract cooler, and among other things, an intercooler-cooler (heh). With one supply of compressed CO2 which is insanely cheap to refill, you can seriously cool all the important crap. They've got it running through the various cooler pieces (and eventually OUT the intercooler-cooler, which is more of a sprayer). The CO2 will immediately cool whatever chamber it expands into, so they've got it running from the bottle to the intake bulb (where it expands into and cools the bulb, allowing the intake air to cool on its way in and around the bulb), to the fuel rail cooler (same thing, expands into the cooler chamber), and then sprayed out directly onto the intercooler, where it really does some cooling.

I've always wanted to be far enough ahead in my modifications to where I could say, "You know, the only thing I have left to increase performance on this monster is to add the CO2 cooling system..." -- because then, it would make a HELL of a difference...