I want to put an intercooler with c02 spray on my car, to replace my intercooler style intake. is it worth it. would it gain me anything, or lose my anything, i would have custome piping up into the engine compartment with a cone filter, but soon to be a hood scoop. I ame going to turbo it right away when i turn 21 (insurance says i cant have a turbo till then withough getting jacked with dues) so i will end up with this setup anyway. what do you guys think.
intercooler on non turbo car - 6G Celicas Forums
-creis+Jun 13, 2004 - 11:44 PM
An Intercooler will do absolutely nothing for you Creis. The point of an intercooler is to cool the compressed air from the turbocharger. As the turbine in a turbo spins it increases the temp of the air it is compressing by hundreds of degrees. It is then cooled by running it through an intercooler before it goes into the engine. If you didn't have an intercooler (in a non-low boost situation) an engine would get extreme predetonation, and as you know that is very very bad. If you don't have a turbo a CAI or short ram will do you just fine, as the ambient air is already cool enough to enter your engine without the worry of predetonation.
-Uppitycracker+Jun 13, 2004 - 10:37 PM
an intercooler will do nothing for you, let alone one with a CO2 spray if you dont have a turbo, In fact i am thinking that it will do more harm than an good since the intercooler and piping length are ok if you are running pressurized air, but without that pressure pushing it through, your engine will be starving for air if it has to go through such great lengths to get to the intake manifold. It will lay stagnant at many points in the piping since the bends introduce lots of 2-d flow dynamics, and i think the air will just get lost and trapped in the intercooler core itself. Yeah, it willprobably do more harm than good. Wait until you turbo.
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-van95st+Jun 14, 2004 - 7:55 AM
-red_94gts+Jun 15, 2004 - 7:34 PM
-red_94gts+Jun 16, 2004 - 12:34 AM
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While we are on the topic, If my celica is soon to be turbocharged will a c02 sprayer for the intercooler be a good idea?????
-boosted_K2+Jun 17, 2004 - 5:21 AM
-saleeka+Jun 17, 2004 - 5:58 AM
don't spray co2 just go get a N.O.S. brand n-tercooler...or what ever it is called.....NITROUS is very very cold and when sprayed onto the intercooler increases the hp and cools the air by a TON more....RESEARCH my friend is best