Intercooler = Power?

[govich]

Help us all great one!

Now you've just made yourself look silly by claiming to have been well educated and misspelling anything remotely technical.

I don't know if you actually read that site either.

Slowing the charge through the intercooler may not be as bad as you think, to a point. If the air hurries through, it's not going to be cooled at all.

By the way, you're assuming that the air takes the full '5 metres' to accelerate to 4m/s. I'd be interested to see why your other air accelerates faster.

Edited November 6, 2006 by govich

[rev210]

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Edited November 6, 2006 by rev210

[govich]

Deleted? I was just about to type a nice reply

Oh well...

[simpletool]

Yes. You can get more power.

Will you get more power? Maybe not.

If it flows better (tank design, end plates, piping) then you'll get more power. As the turbo will not be robbing as much exhaust energy for the same inlet pressure to the engine, therefore making more power. This is one measure of efficiency.

Also, the inlet air maybe denser (although this is not all that significant usually), depends on how hot the air is entering your engine at the moment. ie. efficiency of an engine depends also on the heat difference between input and output air.

More often you will realise more power (that's a relative more power) by increasing the timing and or boost pressure. (But a cooler can make more power before changing any engine parameters).

Edited November 7, 2006 by simpletool

[cookiebear]

Thanks everyone, I've more idea now, and I think I should take my car for another dyno run to see if they can get any more power out of it.

[Munna1]

If your running stock boost before the new cooler goes on you may gain a little bit of power keeping the boost the same. I was running 10psi with the stock cooler, then I put on a hybrid cooler on, was still running 10psi and the HP difference was huge.

So it depends on how efficient you cooler was at the set boost level to what difference you will see.

cheers

[seriesII]

hey, enjoyed this topic, im about to pick up a intercooler for a r33, which size is the most comon for this car?.600 x 300 x 70mm ?, has any one seen the same perfermance with size: 450 x 300 x 76mm ?. just wondering whats the best to get if someone could give me a hand. .aslo, Bar and plate core? or tube and fin?, any difference when buying one? except for price?

Edited November 11, 2006 by seriesII