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Intercooler - Entry and Exit on the same side??

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Is there any real differences with the entry and and exits of intercooler piping to be on the same side. This is for a front mount application on a R33. The piping will go back to the original intercooler piping.

I guess the intercooler would be designed so that its split in half, ie. top and bottom, so flow would go in one half to the opposite end then turn and go back.

Anyone know some more?

KamikazeR33 Grand Master

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air is meant to pass through the intercooler while the air passes the fins, giving it the cooling effect... if u do it the way u suggested, it wont cool at all ..... u may as well not have an intercooler

doxximus Grand Master

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yeah it works

good if you dont want to change your plenum

meggala had it on his 32

ice performance recomended it to me as i could use the original cooler holes (meaning no drilling into stuff) and not as much extra piping needed

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BOoStEr

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The main problem with having the entry and exit on the same side is the air tries to travel by the shortest route and with the long end tanks the far side of the intercooler core doesn't pass as much air as the side with the inlet and outlet. To help solve this it is common to split the inlet tank into two to take half the air directly to the far end of the tank.

Roy Grand Master

Roy

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Coolers that have their inlet and outlet on the same side can work very well.

Looking at the front of the car, instead of having air passing from right to left inside the cooler, you have it going from top to bottom.

So assuming you cooler core is about 600x 200 x 75mm then consider the amount of runners you will be using over the 600mm as opposed to the 200-300 for normal layout.

Ensuring that air is distributed within the entire core is somethimes an issue, but not one that cant be fixed wiht proper end tanks or diverters inside endtanks.

AVO use a similar layout for VL Commodores,

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