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Which Intercooler?

ls1camino

ls1camino

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Bigger is always better, but unless you have an air to water, the air to air will only cool the air so much until the supercharger reheats the air

2.5 inch is good for something like 1000 hp

One more edit, a vertical flow ic is more efficient
 
Pretty sure water has a much higher coefficient of heat transfer than air. Hency why motors are water-cooled now days.
 
ninja edits are gay just like the over moderation don't hurt anyone's feelings on this forum.......


Now this thread makes no sense got decker talking about air 2 water in an air 2 air thread and marshall being a dork talking about vertical intercoolers when he apparently didn't read or open any of the links in the OP's 1st post.

Good job now this thread looks all bi polar and random
 
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Sooo um since this went full retard someone explain why bothering to use a vertical air 2 air intercooler would be worth it for the op' setup with inlet and outlet on opposite ends.

Are the vertical intercoolers cheaper?

Id stick with what plenty of people have used before...... come to think about it I don't think ive ever seen a vertical ic on a turbo setup.

does that mean it wont work? No. Is it worth it? Who knows. I highly doubt anyone is going to test horizontal vs vertical anyways.
 
up/downflow IC's are more even with temp distribution and cooling airflow, however our core support/headlights and unibody rails constrain us to lower pipe connections, a verticle flow core would end up with some major compromises on piping or require a tubular frontend to gain routing options.

we aren't as lucky as the vette/Fbody guys to have the airflow path over the radiator/core support.

everything is a compromise. our discharge piper is 2" so we can wrap around the AC drier and get to the IC below and around the core support. just so we could keep the battery up front where the weight helps us, and to keep frosty AC....
 


I run this...

http://www.treadstoneperformance.co...at_key=63&prodname=TR1245+Intercooler++1000HP

I used 2.5" all around.

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I don't have AC ... but the battery moved down and fbody intake and junk, the pipe work we made cleared everything,
so I could have kept AC... but it was dead when car was bought so out it went. Plus, less weight :P

Bigger is always better in this case. I went with the much bigger than really needed intercooler in the hopes that it would not
get as heat soaked at the track. I did in the summer, back to back to back runs with in a tenth of each other. And get back to the pits, and
its pretty cool to the touch considering....
 
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