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Intercooler Reservoir / Ice Box????

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I'm looking to do a reservoir in my new intercooler setup. Something that would pressurize my system bleed it. I'd also like to be able to work on maybe constructing some type of ice box for the system also.

Anyone do anything like this before? Anyone have any ideas??
 


I had a liquid to air intercooler precision turbo PT2400. It was mounted under ther passenger side dash.
 
We made a ice box for my friends pull truck it worked great. It was not pressurized. We took a cooler and ran a small pvc pipe with holes drilled in it along the bottom of the lid, For the return line. Then just drilled a hole in the bottom for the sending line. When hot water came back it melted the ice and got it nice and cold.
 
Speaking of I was thinking why dont people use front mount liquid heat exchangers like the 03 04 cobras? seems like it would make a colder charge and be able to fit a larger core instead of the zzp style intake manifold setups.
 
02GrandPrixIraqVet said:
Speaking of I was thinking why dont people use front mount liquid heat exchangers like the 03 04 cobras? seems like it would make a colder charge and be able to fit a larger core instead of the zzp style intake manifold setups.
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we DO use front mount heat exchangers..
 


i would run a resivor with water and ice in it at the track, but in the wihter time i would not run anything but coolent. ive seen to many people crack intercoolers in the winter time from freezing water.

i would deff do it if i was going to the track tho.
 
car is stored in the winter so I'm not really worried about freezing. I did look into some of the aftermarket supertanks for the cobra's but they are priced in the $200 range, way above my budget.
 


that is probably the route i will go if i go intercooled.

used fmhe from the cobra, and the resiviour and maybe even the pump if they are selling them cheap enough, probably just go with a gm pump tho. then probably a wbs core.

if that stuff works on the cobra that pushes out more boost than my car, im sure it will be enough for my car.
 
the cobra reservoir is pretty small if you wanted to have a big amount of ice. like i said, the 97/98 coolant bottle will work very well for what youre looking for.
 
Bio248 said:
the cobra reservoir is pretty small if you wanted to have a big amount of ice. like i said, the 97/98 coolant bottle will work very well for what youre looking for.
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True, I have to look at it again, but I don't see any real benefits as it being a ice box, more along the lines of it just being a reservoir tank.
 


the ice is gone after a run anyway, but if you wanted to pack the thing tight with ice so that your intake temperatures were nice and low for the run then you would melt it all and heat it up before you even got under way with the cobra reservoir.
 
ghetto as all hell, but it gets the job done i bet. id also rather have the cold fluid (ice) in the system with the coolant than trying to make the coolant itself cold.
 
I think he has it nicely executed actually, wrapped the cooler up nice, looks professional.

I'm a little skeptical about running no coil in the cooler though.... I don't like the idea of all that water sloshing around in the trunk in a cooler
 
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