I've been comtimplating using the supercharger from the cobalt SS and saturn ion redline on my cavalier. It has an intercooler that is integrated into the intake manifold (water/coolant to air). I'm curious if using an actual front mount intercooler would be a way to cool the coolant/water running through the intake manifold opposed to a small radiator or condenser style cooler up front.

Which would be more efficient? Seems as though the intercooler could hold a decent amount of fluid and act as a resovoir. Not sure if it would be cool that large of a volume of water efficiently though.

Any suggestions? I've never seen this done. Obvioulsy special end takes would need to be fabricated but it would look nicer up front than a lil radiator too. Any thoughts on this or experiences?

 

Beau had that setup on his car. you would have a meathod of cooling the water, thats at your discretion. Beau didn't have cooling for his since its a drag car, but for everyday, effeciency is key.

h2o pump
http://www.jcwhitney.com/autoparts/P...t=water%20pump

air charge Xchnage
http://www.jcwhitney.com/autoparts/S...sku=oil+cooler
if you do it, post the results

 

run the water through an oil cooler first ?

 

My buddy sandwiched the top-mount on his WRX between 2 aluminum plates to convert to water-air. He then ran the water through a big automatic tranny cooler from Autozone mounted up frount. He put the reservoir in his trunk. He used a couple of those solid cooling thingies for camping in the reservoir to cool the water down.