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intercooler without turbo
Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 4:55 am
by SILINC3R
was wondering if you could use an intercooler without a turbo. would you be able to get any horsepower gains from the air getting cooler from the intercooler.
Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 5:00 am
by ciper
It wouldn't get any cooler. The air entering the air filter is already ambient temp with nothing to heat in on the way to the engine.
You could however heat wrap your entire intake and bypass the coolant lines on the throttle body for a slight decrease in intake temps.
Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 4:22 am
by Legacy777
No, all an intercooler does on an N/A motor is add restriction to the intake tract and hurt performance.
Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 9:31 am
by SILINC3R
thats is what i thought but it was worth a shot i guess
Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 2:01 am
by New92
Never hurts to ask. Thats how I learned. Most of the time you can do that here without fear of severe rebuke.
Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 5:16 am
by the_watts10
yup true that no-ones a dumbass here unlike some other forums ive been to like every nissan forum that i have seen have been all douchebags so yeah retarded questions are welcome here
Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 9:04 pm
by subbieedude!
interfooler!!!
Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 9:13 pm
by gijonas
Never hurts to ask. Thats how I learned. Most of the time you can do that here without fear of severe rebuke.
Not if i read it first, i am a rebuke ninja

Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 5:38 am
by desmo750
New92 wrote:Never hurts to ask. Thats how I learned. Most of the time you can do that here without fear of severe rebuke.
Which is awesome, unlike NASIOC

Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:50 pm
by GodSquadMandrake
No because your intake air is already going to be near ambient but yes the same principal still applies. Every 10 degrees cooler is around 1 HP in general so if you had a CAI, heat wrapped your intake, used phenolic spacers or found some other way to cool your intake charge there is horsepower to be spared.
Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 5:37 pm
by evolutionmovement
Asking questions is how you learn the how or why of a system so that you can successfully improve upon it in the future (or come up with a new one). Those other sites full of critics just shows how ignorant they are, not the poster asking the question (well, most of the time). Thinking outside the box should be encouraged, but draws criticism from all the idea-deficient people (the majority) who feel threatened or afraid of those who can think for themselves. Those people aren't the innovators, they tend to be destroyers as they lack the ability to create or they're the ones that support oppressive regimes by refusing to let go of false ideas instilled within them. That inability to let go or change a mind is the cause of justification of millions of horrific acts throughout history. The true monsters are few, but with so many willingly manipulated followers, they don't need to be numerous.
Blessed are those who think for themselves and create.
Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 6:05 pm
by suba
the_watts10 wrote:yup true that no-ones a dumbass here unlike some other forums ive been to like every nissan forum that i have seen have been all douchebags so yeah retarded questions are welcome here
Punctuation!