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Ok, so I've been going through my R33 gtst these last few days and I've fixed up all the washer motors.
One of which was for an intercooler spray kit that was already installed on the car.

would water on the intercooler really do much?
I'm skeptical myself, currently in 2 minds whether to rip it all off or not...

Cheers

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Had a ghetto IC spray setup on my old zed. I had an LED that flashed when coolant temp went over 95. If nothing else, when boosting hard up mountains and the LED came on, I would hit the spray and almost instantly the light would go off.

Haha, I've always wanted to have forward facing sprayers that spray brake fluid all over the picks that cut me off when driving through the cbd...

Well I'll leave my kit on there for now, I've got it disconnected as it runs through the water pretty quickly and there's no on/off switch yet besides the boost switch.

Might be useful over at Calder Park for the Friday night street drags Haha

AFAIK, the main idea for water intercooler sprays is to prevent or prolong the time it takes for your intercooler to reach heat saturation, in turn making your car run at or close to peak power for longer.

Here is an article explaining it in depth (it's even tested on a R32 GT-R) http://www.autospeed.com/cms/article.html?&A=0527

On the other hand, if one wanted to drop their intake temps below what your intercooler could do by itself, I'd be looking at something like this... http://www.designengineering.com/category/catalog/cryo2-system-components/cryo2-intercooler-sprayer-kit

I put the Autospeed spray controller and a home built spray setup onto the SMIC on my R32....um.....many many years ago. It did good things for that little intercooler. When I upgraded to a much bigger FMIC, I couldn't ever really tell the difference between having the sprayer functional and not having it. So I stripped it out of teh car.

Whether they are useful enough depends on the ratio of hot air being made to cooler size and your vehicle usage model.

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