Intercoolers
 

Just in general,what´s you guys findings?

What has been your experience when it comes to end tank layouts,bar&plate vs tube&fin aso?

Currently looking into this as best as i can and would appreciate any findings.

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i like entry from the rear

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Ebay special

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that would be tube in skin gross faggot!!!!

personal preference, power goals?

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Amongst others,yeah.
Point is that i´ve seen more than one cooler become a flow hinderance when you start upin the power.
What´s more is that a couple of close personal friends do development work on intercoolers for Volvo Penta(marine use),and their findings..yeah well..i guess a lot of what they indeed DO find applies,but not so when it comes to flow needed for power inxs of 600 asf.
So..go figure.
Bar&plate as far as flow with all due respect,but the point here is that i guess graphic placement comes into play as well.
For instance,up here we seldom get more than 25degC on a hot summer day rendering the need for overefficient coolers less..the flow however is still needed.
..and as most cars will set the frame for what can be done from outright room..

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wtf are you talking about?
heres how it works; find a cheap intercooler that holds pressure and use it

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i believe thats grounds for banning

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nahhh lets give him the bennefit of the doubt.... He PROBABLY meant he would be the enterer... NOT the enteree... LOL.

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Short and thick does the trick

long and thin won't fit in.

for serious power you might well be better off looking into chargecooling. For the short times your boosting on the 1/4 you can use ice in the reservoir for sooooper cooling.

Your also not as restricted by frontal area. And since the core's are more efficient you can run one with less flow restriction for any given cooling effect.

A bit off on a tangent, but nevertheless i think alot of top fuel dragsters use an ice filled reservoir for their 1/4 runs.

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finally, someone knows what i'm talkin about

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Look.
The thing is...
On the merc i run a given element.
At the current power levels it seems the design of it has become a flow hinderance.
So..got another couple of elements laying around the shop i´m gonna weld up tanks for and try out.
Which brings in another part of the equation,design of end tanks.
The ones i plan to fab this time out will be way more streamlined than the one in the car right now,and i´m asking what others have reached as far as similar results.
So..anyone else out there pushing 500 outta the huffer and have run into "walls" of some sort that COULD be related to the intercooler?
Starting to think that flow..is more important than cooling effect within given limits(or harder to achieve at least)

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if you go tube and fin you will have better flow for those hp numbers, just the cooling effect will be less, thats why they are usually a lot bigger i/c's than bar and plate

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Beware of the XSP intercoolers though!
I thought it was a myth but I just saw it today with my own eyes, it's incredible, the passes of these cheapo 129$ ebay intercoolers do POP OUT and they of course leak boost from the resulting cracks. Looks like the brazing of the passes is cheaply made and not controlled, making these intercoolers as disapointing as their other products.

now about something different, i have just installed my first vertical flow intercooler lately.

I love it.

Not only did it allow to make the SHORTEST POSSIBLE IC piping on a honda but for the same size, it has much more flow than it's horiz.flow counterpart. Apparently it has slightly less cooling efficiency for the same size but who cares, i live in Quebec. Not Texas! datalogging my intake temps did not allow to confirm any poor cooling. if anything, I measured air intake temps very close to ambient temps throughout the street tuning session so I'm sure it cools more than enough.

picture of my vertical flow intercooler, installed

picture of it before the install

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im thinking of going to one like that for the extra flow due to size constraints.