Can this SUPER air intake work?

[coolchu001]

Can this work?
There's a bunch of intercoolers on ebay for as little as 200$ shipped...

[Ostornadoe]

I'm not exactly sure how an IC works, but it seems that if the air flows into the IC and then goes into the piping, the filter won't do anything. Now if the IC just has air running through it to cool it, then yes that would probably work.

[mcelligott]

dont do that....

[coolchu001]

well the filter's just there so stuff doesnt get into the engine
mcelligott, explain to me why that wouldnt work please

[Ostornadoe]

I know what the filter does. My point is that if an IC takes in cold air, then there will be no filter between the air coming in and the engine. I don't know much about IC's, so i don't know if it takes air directly in or if the air runs through it to cool it and doesn't actually take in air(through the part that looks like a radiator)

[dexter_5000]

reason for intercoolers on forced induction engines is to slow down the air molecules allowing even more to be forced into the engine. on a n/a this is not worth the time or effort reason why you can just make a cai. in which case it does the same job but better for a n/a car.

[Luckynumber5]

it wont work because you have an n/a 2.2 liter 4 cylinder engine, cold air intakes and even using an intercooler like that to make the air colder wont get you any gains because of the restriction the i/c will cause even if the air is cooler, also you wont be flowing a large enough volume of air through the cooler for it to be efficient enough to give any gains


edit: you guys, on my v6 3vz-fe i made an excellent cai and i got 2 horsepower, on a 4 cyl it will be louder and thats it, in order to get serious gains from colder air you need to make the air a LOT cooler, not just 10 degrees im talking cooling it enough so that by the time it has gone through the metal intake manifold and down into the combustion chamber it is still cool and not really freaking hot which wont happen unless you are flowing a huge amount of air



and intercoolers flow air through them, the air goes into the filter and the surface area of the intercooler allows it to loose a little heat, but it cannot exchange more heat then the ambient air temperature


this will not get you any gains and you will loose power because an intercooler is a major restriction unless you have a turbo or supercharger

[coolchu001]

ahh damn i was hoping it'll work better than a CAI

[Ostornadoe]

The air won't cool any when it runs through the IC basically.... It will already be taking air from a cold place, and the IC won't actually cool it down much.

[Luckynumber5]

Ostornadoe an intercooler will cool air when you flow enough through it

[REN69]

Rice alert!!!

Dude.. if you get one.. just make sure you get a fake blow-off valve!

pshhhh pshhhh!!

[Toysrme]

• Intercoolers are a large flow restriction
• Air being sucked into the engine is all ready at ambient temperature you newb

[anuthaCamry]

hey what's a cai?


as far as that thing pictured is concerned that, my friend, is just plain wack.

If the temperature were a steady 70 degrees, the air coming into your na engine's throttle will be 70 degrees.

Iif the temperature were a steady 70 degrees, the air leaving a supercharger or turbo will be as high as 170 degrees or more, maybe 200 degrees. That air would go into an intercooler before entering the throttle, and if it were 95 degrees it would be ok

Installation of such a device would be like buying yourself an invisible dunce cap that everyone else could see but you!!

[Racer_Rodney]

Originally Posted by Toysrme

• Intercoolers are a large flow restriction
• Air being sucked into the engine is all ready at ambient temperature you newb

hey cut him some slack we were all new once....

about 1600 post ago for you toys but you were new...lol

[Toysrme]

1600 posts ago I was asking about boring & stroking because there was no information about it.
Still isn't.