hoodilio Posted January 19, 2004 Report Share Posted January 19, 2004 I know this may be a dumb question, but would it be possible to set up an intercooler to a naturally asperated car. Like i dont know exactly how they work, I used to, but I forgot. Say you hooked a took from the intake to the intercooler, then on the outher end of the intercooler have a nother tupe going down into the fenderwell drawing in the air. That was the intercooler would cool down the air going into the engine more then a regular cold air intake. Just a thought, dont laught if it seems that I dont totally understand how they normally work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Intlcutlass Posted January 19, 2004 Report Share Posted January 19, 2004 I don't see where this would be that benificial on a n/a engine. Intercoolers are meant to cool the air inbetween the turbo, and the t/b. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoodilio Posted January 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2004 Yah i know, but i was just thinkin. See told u it was a dumb question/idea. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joey b Posted January 20, 2004 Report Share Posted January 20, 2004 well, we could put it in front of the throttle body and it would such cold air instead of hot air, right? Is that possible and beneficial? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbtk2 Posted January 20, 2004 Report Share Posted January 20, 2004 An intercooler on a naturally aspirated car would not only do no good, it would probably HURT performance. An intercooler takes the ambient air and uses it to cool down either the water in an air to water intercooler which would then cool down the hot air passing over that, or it would cool down the air in an air to air intercooler. Now using this ambient air works very well since air that comes from a turbocharger or supercharger is usually 200+*F, so that 70* air would cool it down a significant amount, and it would be beneficial enough to overcome the loss from the restriction of the intercooler. But if you take this same concept and put it on a N/A car, you are cooling 70* air with 70* air, so it isn't going to do any good, besides the fact that the air wouldn't flow through the intercooler very well. You have to remember that putting an intercooler on a forced induction car will usually drop the boost 1-2psi because of the restriction, so imagine that restriction in the air intake of your N/A car, the power loss would be huge. So, in a nutshell, it wouldn't do crap. Hope that made sense. Shawn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joey b Posted January 20, 2004 Report Share Posted January 20, 2004 yes, explained very well! Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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