Thread: intercooler thoughts

Pre-Intercooler Cooling Pipe


thought it was kinda interesting, what your thought everyone

I don't know if there is enough surface area for the internal flow to exchange heat.

Seems like a waste of money.

I dont see that really doing much either...

i thought the same thing i dont see if being very efficient

I know a local guy around here that runs this on his hot side. Its a high ten sec k24 240sx. He says that he has always logged his intake air temps and he claims they went down quit a bit when he installed it.. I believe the guy, he just some cool old man, with no reason to bs

Yeah I would love to see some proof. Otherwise I will stick with a proper intercooler and meth injection

This is not meant to replace an intercooler, its just a heat sink to help bring down the temps on the hot side before even entering the ic. Heat sinks are proven to lower temps. Look at a lot of electrical components. They use heat sinks like this all over.

Yes cory. I know. That's not what I was getting at. Sorry if my post confused you. What I meant to say was, I will stick to my proper intercooler that keeps charge temps down, and my meth injection which lowers them even lower. I realize its a heat sink.

Heat sinks work better though when the majority of the mass you are trying to cool actually comes into contact with the sink.

Assuming it does pull heat from the charge air, I would think it's drawback would be cooling itself down. Your intercooler gets a lot of cold air from the front of the car but this thing would be tucked away somewhere and wouldn't get nearly as much air flow.

I can see weird, extreme examples where this would be a good idea (rear mounted turbo maybe?) but in general I wouldn't consider it. Who has a straight section of charge pipe that long surrounded by cool air? *shrug*