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hi guys,

my brains being doing some fothat thinking stuff over the l;ast few days (wife is now complaining of a burning smell in house)

i know that an intercooler on a turbo car serves a perpose inthat it cools the air charge that has been heated by the compression of the turbo....

BUT...

would a small intercooler on an NA be beneficial? as the colder the air inthe more power we get potentially. but eventually there would come a point where the restriction in air flow negates any benefits in cooling the air charge? so where might this occur? is it just pointless puting an intercooler on or would it actually do something?

thoughts and suggestions please.... not sure if this is a stupid idea or not......and no one over this side of the pond to ask ....

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an intercooler on a NA will make it lose power, as the temp it would cool it to is the same as it was when it entered, although if you had the cooler as a front mount it would actually soak in a touch of heat from the radiator while you are sitting in traffic so it could heat the air up.

basically all it would do is add restriction.

the reason they work on a turbo car is that the act of compressing air heats it up, plus the heat radiationg through the turbo heats it up a bit too. so the air coming out of the turbo is up close to 100 degrees at times.

yeah it would restrict the flow as the air have further to travel (Depending on intercooler set up) if anything on an N/A possibly heat wrap the induction pipe? stop it heating up from surrounding systems in the engine bay. just my 2 bobs..

hame

Yeah only good for forced induction, If you also built a ramflow or fan to draw the air through the system it would be a benefit, but that kind of setup would still work better without the ic restricting flow.

Fresh air will always be cooler than anything that goes through an ic. Unless ofcourse it's a dry ice setup obviously.

Edited by madbung

look in the sticky of how to get power out on an N/A there is good info in there, let go of the idea about running an intercooler on a n/a it a good thought but there is better mods out there for you hesh!

IT WILL SLOW UR CARR MAN, lol i tried it at the drags one time as i turboed my na but before i did i mounted the intercooler as trial fit then i was going to heathcote so i figured y not, and yeh i lost a sec and a half on time slips with it on, wont help any, done and dusted

cheers guys i guess thats a definitive no then1lol

i was kinda leaning that way but like i say you ask a question like that over here and ya get "why dont you have a turbo ....etc etc ..." so thanks again . the Intercooler idea has left the building.

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