Intercooler

by AT » Wed Oct 29, 2003 1:33 pm

99 Solara S/C 5spd

Is it feasible to use an intercooler with Supercharged Solara?

by **Fletch** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 3:51 pm

I don't know of anybody who has done it. It would probably be easier to make and icebox intake, but that would only be good for drag racing in hotter weather, unless you really have a lot of ice.

by **Astro** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 4:06 pm

I really would like one too. If you could it would probably cost some big bucks though.

by **swimshady906** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 5:16 pm

Where would it be connected? And how does this ice box intake work?

by **HKSV6SLE** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 10:49 pm

its feasbile...i remeber reading bout some crew from no. cal i think that was running a supercharged civic i think it was with an intercooler..though they were using a vortech blower...so...

by **Mole** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 11:35 pm

we dont have the ability to have an IC.

Moe did something close to an IC, but im not to clear what exactly he did though.

by **kubi** » Thu Oct 30, 2003 1:10 am

So if anyone has the time to explain to the less educated... Why can't a Solara have an intercooler?

by **all_red** » Thu Oct 30, 2003 1:13 am

let me feel that I know some stuff... I think you can't have an intercooler with a supercharger. You only get to use an intercooler with a turbo.

Am I right ppl?
If so why do you need an intercooler with turbo? to cool down the turbine?

by **kubi** » Thu Oct 30, 2003 1:23 am

I know that an intercooler is to cool down the air used in conjuction with a turbo or a supercharger. The cooler air flows more easily, and more air flow is beneficial. What I don't know is why a Solara can't have one.

by **all_red** » Thu Oct 30, 2003 1:35 am

that guy who has a turbo has an intercooler I think. So you can have an intercooler on a solara if you got turbo... I GUESS

And its not about that cool air flows easily. Cool air is compressed and more dense than hot air and that makes it expand much faster than hot air when its fired-----------> More power. You can see that cold air intake systems give HP gain not by only increasing the flow, but also by providing cooler air than the stock air box or ordinary intake systems.

I know thats true, coz thats what I am studying... :wink:

...

by **kubi** » Thu Oct 30, 2003 3:16 am

Ya, I know how it works

But you can have an intercooler on a supercharger.

by **Fletch** » Thu Oct 30, 2003 3:48 am

A lot of centrifugal S/C'ers run intercoolers because it's basically a belt driven turbo, check out www.procharger.com, they have some pretty cool products. Our S/C'ers are roots type like GTP's.

by **RayCarlo** » Thu Oct 30, 2003 4:57 am

I have also wondered about this subject, but here's what i've learned, for our application, it's is going to be very hard to have an intercooler, my understanding is that the intercooler cools the air before it gets mixed with fuel so it would have to go between the actual supercharger and the combustion chamber of the engine, now if you look at our setups you will notice that as it is right now there is not too much room in the engine bay before the supercharger hits the strut bar, or even hood of the car. If you look at old muscle cars with intercoolers, i think they have modified hoods where some of it has been cut out in order for it to on the car. So i guess it is possible, (with money almost anything is possible) but it would require a lot of custom work.
Once again this is just what my understand of it is and i could be wrong, if you know better correct me.

Ray

by **Yanks0114** » Thu Oct 30, 2003 6:53 am

HKSV6SLE wrote:its feasbile...i remeber reading bout some crew from no. cal i think that was running a supercharged civic i think it was with an intercooler..though they were using a vortech blower...so...

Of course its possible, but not on out style blower. A roots blower usually doesn't get intercooled, not to mention there is almost no room to work work under the engine bay.

I have seen on an older thunderbird they turned the roots blower upside down and ran piping and hooked up an IC. The biggest problem on our cars would be the only room to run the pipe would be right near the engine, which would just reheat the air again, not to mention we are limited on space.

ICs wouldn't do much on 4psi of boost but it would allow for a little higher than 5.5 or 6.

IMO its not worth it because its too much custom work.

A CAI on the other hand could yield real impressive gains

by **Chef solara** » Thu Oct 30, 2003 1:24 pm

If we do what moe did we would have the closest thing their was to a cold air intake.
If anyone reads Turbo mag or SCC mag, in their is a company's ad by the name of
www.topspeedauto.com
they sell a Front Mont Cold Air Intake, the company is out of Addison, Texas.
4109 Billy Mitchell DR.
Addison, Texas,75001
TEL 972-233-0888
FAX 972-233-0800
I called and they are wholesale only, but I got a price on the intake and they said it was $220.00
So That what I am going to do about a CAI.

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