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i had this thought after reading all your posts. please don't make an idiot of me if this idea is stupid as i have never heard anyone mention it or anything.

an intercooler works just like a radiator right? except for air instead of water running through...

so...why wouldn't a small electric fan from say a motorbike mounted behind the intercooler work to help increase the airflow over the stock intercooler? there is plenty of room after the 'cooler and it seems to be very efficient for a radiator so why not for the intercooler??

has anyone done this or tried it and removed because it was useless?

any thoughts...

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not likely to be under boost whilst stopped at traffic, and higher speedds when you would be under boost there is already plenty of air flow. The whole idea of an intercooler is to remove heat generated by the compressing of the air, with not boost there is no added heat.

um when i used to have an pulsar et turbo when i was 16 my a few ppl would place small fans on their intercooler for that exact reason. it is a benefit by cooling it down by some degree BUT i beleive this is better used for a intercooler that is engine mounted or mounted in the engine bay aas some small powered 4cylinders do in older cars eg, cordia, et.....but in the later model cars such as silvias 180s skylines etc they have been placed in a very good position behind and its postion does let in a lot of air but of course nothing beat front mount

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