Air To Water intercooler
 

Im finishing up collecting parts for my drag car and was wondering if anyone has any advice regarding a air2water cooler



http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/LIQUI...spagenameZWDVW




Seems like a heal of deal. My main question is kind of pump people are using

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i dont know ass bout them but i was lookin at them at the cdm store there only 139 bin

http://app.infopia.com/Shop/Control/...id/0/SFV/31982

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HAHA. That is Donald's old employer.


He sells pretty nice t-bolt clamps too. I'm going to run that same one on my hatch.

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water > Air inter's are 14x more efficient than air>air... water pump can be any 12v pump you can find. Just find yourself a nice water tank with a big lid so you can stuff tons of ice in it!!! My bro and I used a water > air on his turbo vette and everytime he turned on the pump it would cool the engine down so much that it went back into cold-start mode. Most of the time he would leave it off until his foot felt heavy. ;D

www.baldturbofreak.com who needs what built!!! we'll do it....

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^^^^ Thanx for that link, cous...That's some sick $hit, just on the homepage...

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i used the pump and the water canester from the washer fluid resivor. ran a line from the outlet line to the ic then back into the top of the resivor. then hooked it to a toggle switch

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pictures of the above two setups?

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if its purely drag, icewater ftw but if its gonna see any street time at all chris, keep an fmic

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W0rd. I'd imagine that thing would heat up pretty good without water going through it. There's got to be some kinda of mix to get below freezing temps without damaging the IC too. I have NO expeirence in this field though, so, haha....good luck and seems cool. I have a windshield wiper motor/tank if you want one to. PM me.


JP

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That thing looks like it would be a bitch to keep couplers on it. There isn't much meat there.

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The closest thing to the street it will see is rips in front of my shop


car is a full fiberglass/lexan car

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Chris check this link out, its a local shop owner who did the water to air setup and turbod his element nice #s

http://www.highaltitudeimports.com/t...prisequot.html

there are a few pages but a good write up on the w-a

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your gonna want somthing alot bigger than a washer pump im using a inline bilge pump for a boat in the black car rated at almost 9gpm

Beau

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what about an old fuel pump?

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haha
lets just say a certain...car...hmm
well yes you can do that

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...y/DSC00561.jpg

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mention Donald from HMT and get a discount 8) (i hope :P)

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I'm using a liquid intercooler in my setup:

http://www.dilysimotorsports.com/images/IMG_0959.JPG

It's the OE cooler from a GMC Cyclone. I have to deal with the goofy outlet that originally coupled to a GM oval TB, but oh well. I'm using my AC condensor as the front mount heat exchanger, and I'll have an icebox in the system downstream of the heat exchanger and upstream of the intercooler.

I haven't figured out my pump yet, but since I am putting a Walbro 255 in, I'm considering using the OE fuel pump to pume the intercooler liquid. I may use water, or I may use something that can get colder (alcohol, antifreeze, etc.)

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Looks, damn good Dave.

I might try to pick one of those up if I see one next time at the junkyard.

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what about straight methanol?