Water misting spray for ICs... where to get nozzles?
 

Ive poked around home depot and lowes and i really coulndnt find anything worth trying to use and what not, does anybody have ideas on where to get them?

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garden centres?

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look for the outdoor mister nozzles. I think they were in the plumbing or garden section.
The Lowes in Phoenix had em. The nozzles were like 2 bucks each.

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Don't dooooo it. Intercooler spray's don't work and aren't worth the money. Even if you spray alcohol which evaporates faster, it's not worth it at all.

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That's right. Water absorbs and dissipates heat ten times faster than air. Obviously a waste of time!

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I've seen articles that prove it's a waste of time. Have you ever tried it? I don't think so if you think it's so great.

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Have you ever tried it either? No, you read an article.

I'm sure its efficiency depends on the situation it's being used in and it's not as cut-n-dry as "it just doesn't work".

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Who needs to try it when it's all been tried?

Read this ::)

http://www.overboost.com/story.asp?id=1257

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you could get a paintball gun co2 bottle and mist ice cold co2, that would work

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Interesting, but I call BS, He used 1 misting bottle, with one nozzle, enough water to do ----, if you had lets say 6 nozzles, high output pressure from the pump and was misting your intercooler that way, i'm sure it would make more than a 4.7% drop in temperature.

And if I'm wrong then there is always water injection O0

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Very accurate scientific test. A big fan set who knows where (looks like it's right infront, exactly where he stands so that makes a nice big hole) using a heat-gun blasting directly into a IC and trying to cool it with a handheld spray gun..

That's like saying a G-Tech Pro is accurate, discount as many variables as possible and assume the result is 100% correct.

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Don't some stock cars come with intercooler sprayers?

I don't see why it wouldn't work, and it doesn't cost much for a simple setup.

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that test is flawed because, there is air moving through the intercooler when you're moving. and the air hitting the water makes it cool and evaporate faster.

this is obvious by getting your hand wet, its not that cold, then swing your arm around and it feels cooler.

he needed a fan when doing that test.

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Did you not even read it or what? He was using a big 1/4 HP fan

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just relocate your winshield washer nossles and mount them on your bumper support, when you wanna spray just pull the handle.

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you could use a fuel injector conected to a switch..

or you could just drill a hole in the actual intke piping and install an injector, then spray windshield fluid in the intake... i do it and it works good...

it raises compression, cools the charge, the alcholol raises octane rating, and is verry inexpnsive.

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I did the and ran the several lines thru a dsm sidemount intercooler.It made a difference on a hot day.

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eh, you gotta be careful for the aspect of dont drip ---- on the track or you piss off the officials that work there too.

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He sprayed on 32 ounces of water, that is a decent amount of water when you consider a gallon of water is rougly 2 lbs. You planning on dousing your intercooler with a waterfall of water that you will store where??? and will last how long??? There is also propane injection to look into.

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Go for water injection rather than just spraying it over your IC

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That's nice.

So, yeah, for those of us trying to think about what is going on instead of relying on articles... your IC is going to have to be heat soaked to show a difference.

1/4 hp fan is worthless, btw! At 100 mph vehicle speed, the average airspeed the far side of a radiator is 17 mph. That's a whole lot more air mass than a 1/4 hp blah blah blah - how do you think an IC stacks up now?

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if u really wanted to do it u could go to the junkayard and get the whindshild sprayers and the tank with the water pump in it. that should work..... just mount the nozzles in front of the ic. u might even think about putting ice in the tank ;) and if i were you i wouldnt use co2.... it is cryogenic but it actually lowers ur hp when ur engine sucks it up. go here for info :) http://www.cryofuzion.com/spraybar.htm

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i thought a gallon of water was 10lbs??

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If you inject water before the turbo it will ---- up your compressor blades.

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if misting the intercooler is a waste of time, do u really think subaru engineers would go to all the trouble to engineer a water-misting setup on the sti? i'd say they probably did a lot more testing than the guy with a fan and a heat gun. ::)

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Dumbass, they use water injection. That is totally different and proven to work. You prove to me that spraying the intercooler with water on the outside works and I'll apologize for calling you a dumbass.

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the STI definetly has a was sprayer on top of the IC that mists water on the outside..i don't know how effective it is. but subaru engineers can't be too stupid I think someone should say..hey i'm sorry lol

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sorry, but you OBVIOUSLY have never seen an sti. learn your facts b4 you mouth off, fucktard. heres your sweet "water injection" setup for the sti-
http://www.scoobymania.co.uk/prodimg...raynozzles.jpg
now lets hear that apology.

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Um yeah man, its just a misting system, same as the EVO.

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Dammit!

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i'm.... i'm.... i'm..... whats that u say?

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I still wouldn't do it :P

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ahh, the beauty of being a narcissistic prick, never being able to admit you're wrong after u get shot down. :P

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I'm not wrong, why don't you prove to me that it works?

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It would be cool to point the sprayers forward and to the side so they get the pavement wet in front of your tires... that way you could do mad burnouts! LoL.

Or, point them and squirt the guy in the car next to you...

In all seriousness, I bet they would work if the intercooler was completely heat soaked and you were driving fast. It makes logical sense that spraying water on the intercooler would cool it down. I don't know if it's been proven or not, but it seems to make sense to me.

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I'd have to agree... only a retard wouldn't be able to see that.... think of a wind chill factor, you'll be cold out side in the winter but if you'r hairs wet or your clothes are wet you'll freeze way faster! The same with spraying water on the out side of an IC, by doing so while your haulin down the road or at the track when you'r heat soaked it's bound to make a difference. That's why Subaru does it with the STi, Mitsu does it with the Evolution, and why even drag race cars and rally car's do it alike. If anyone's ever seen Getaway in Stockholm 2 at the end when they're showing the Ford Escort Cosworth at the drag track they hose down the whole intercooler as he's pullin up to the line with a fire extinguisher! If I had to guess who's right, I'd have to say that these race team's and engineers are a bit smarter than jagojon3.....

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I would just hookup a pipe going along top of the Itercooler and another on the bottom poke holes in the pipes and have a 5-10lb co2 tank and a Nitros solinoid and just spray when needed. I would rather use co2 then water. But then again your flying doing 60+mph either water or co2 is just gonna come right off. but it should cool down some for the most part.

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if you spray water onto the intercooler the water will match the temp of the intercooler surface, which will probably be hotter than ambient air because compressed air is going through it, then when the water evaporates into the wind going by the intercooler it will take that heat away from the ic and leave it cooler.

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ding ding ding....i think we have a winner

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Not to continue to stomp on you, but GVR-4 #366/2000 runs a set of windshield washer squirters to spray on it's FMIC. 160K miles on a stock Mitsufeces bottom end, Buschur's T4 stuck into Mitsu turbine housing, and some racegas = 7.63@92 in the 1/8th with no traction in first. More to come, but alas bent shift fork for now. It is endlessly amusing to see the boost gauge needle hit the peg right at/after 30 psi, and really have no clue what boost the car is really running.