Water to air intercooler

[4DRHTRD]

Well since I'm upgrading the turbos and looking to get as much out of the car as possible the stock IC is in a horrible place and not the greatest. I'm looking at doing a barrel type water to air intercooler with a dedicated heat exchanger and a rear mounted resevoir soon as well.
I had a water to air top mount on my speed 6 and it worked great, huge difference over the stocker and we made it to bolt into place on that car. I'm starting to look at places to put this:

I'm thinking I can redo the pipping on the inlet side of the IC to Y into a single pipe to go into the new intercooler and then out of that into the throttle body.

I'll post up pics when we go to do the install with the turbos next month.

This is a great thread on someone else's build:
http://www.iwsti.com/forums/water-meth-injection-nitrous-intercooler-cooling/199117-t-gs-air-water-ic-build.html

 

[4DRHTRD]

Some cool water chiller options for the tank:
http://www.inbthermoelectric.com/Thermoelectric-Peltier-Cooling-Systems/Liquid-Chillers/inb280-12-LA.html

http://www.killerchiller.com/GT%20instructions.htm

Video of the killer chiller setup cooling down the intercooler coolant:
Killer Chiller Temp test

 

[turbodave]

The killer chiller temp test was interesting but is pretty useless information.  The temp of the intercooler fluid is of no concern.  What is important, and what he should have shown, is what is the air temp entering the intake manifold, and not during a street drive.  Show it at the end of a quarter mile pull.

 

[4DRHTRD]

More videos here Dave, including some on street pulls:
KC Testing 2011.wmv

 

[4DRHTRD]

Another video
http://www.killerchiller.com/images/KC%20TEST%201.wmv

 

[4DRHTRD]

Great thread on the killer chiller
http://www.modularfords.com/f17/initial-killer-chiller-review-113125/index2.html

 

[4DRHTRD]

Another video for you, longer test with more data.
RX Performance Super Chiller in 2010 Camaro SS supercharged

 

[turbodave]

Pretty good!! I wonder why the chiller has to shut down at WOT ?

 

[4DRHTRD]

Pretty good!! I wonder why the chiller has to shut down at WOT ?

The "chiller" is the A/C compressor which on all the new cars shuts off at WOT automagically....
Turn A/C on and the chiller starts working.

 

[turbodave]

Makes sense now.  I was wondering how they got the heat exchanger fluid so cold.

 

[EcoBrick Bob]

This is all new to me..

My system which was  Methanol/Water, saw big drops in MCT which is the control temp for everything.  At times when I was spraying 75% methanol (approx) I saw Manifold Charge Temps (MCT) below ambient temp.  So.. if you are spraying Nitrous, or  Methanol, I don't undrstand why you have to worry about  the coolers or even use them... Sorry.. if I am ignorant and mis- construing all of this... ???????????????????????

 

[4DRHTRD]

This is all new to me..

My system which was  Methanol/Water, saw big drops in MCT which is the control temp for everything.  At times when I was spraying 75% methanol (approx) I saw Manifold Charge Temps (MCT) below ambient temp.  So.. if you are spraying Nitrous, or  Methanol, I don't undrstand why you have to worry about  the coolers or even use them... Sorry.. if I am ignorant and mis- construing all of this... ???????????????????????

Bob imagine if the intake air temp to the manifold was 50 degrees below ambient and then you sprayed water/meth. The cooler the intake charge the more power you can make.

 

[EcoBrick Bob]

I understand what you are saying... just didn't think it could go that low... :biggrin: :biggrin:

 

[bnoon]

If you've ever experienced an air to water intercooler, then stepped up to air/water with a resevoir to add ice, the killerchiller is like having that ice in there all the time. Very nice!

 

[baggedsvt]

I have a killer chiller on my Ford Lightning.  It is great for street driving as you have air moving. I do not use it at the track though as just sitting there in the pits and staging lanes I do not run my truck.  I pack my intercooler res with ice and that works great. 

 

[sunwolf]

Interesting. I wonder if anyone would try using acetone or rubbing alcohol instead of water and adding dry ice. That would bring the coolant temperature to -108*F.

 

[4DRHTRD]

Hmm, that might work on my V

 

[wasinger3000]

Or use a freon based system. Could be interesting to make.

 

[panther427]

Freon is a bad idea because of the horse power draw of the compressor.  Ha ha good thing r 12 isn't used anymore since when it burned it created mustard gas if you had an inter cooler leak. 

 

[wasinger3000]

Freon is a bad idea because of the horse power draw of the compressor.  Ha ha good thing r 12 isn't used anymore since when it burned it created mustard gas if you had an inter cooler leak.

Compressores today dont draw a lot of hp.. but i was looking at a more long term kind of intercooler. But it would be really hard to get to work with such rapid heat loads.