Intercooler sizes?
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RE: Intercooler sizes?
ORIGINAL: kakarot
IC needes to be as big as needed. But, you can lower the size required to cool X amount of degrees by improving other factors. Like the restriction in the air system, Turbo efficiency, etc... Since the OEM turbos are quite efficient, a smaller IC is needed. If you desighn the system right, you can have a small IC.
As any heat exchanger, making the frontal area bigger will provide better cooling that by making the IC thicker.
If you want to do a custum one, maximize the frontal area, and then make thickness of the cooler only to alow the max CFM. Then you will actually get it very effcient IC and same or better response as OEM. Just have to get a book and use the formulas.
IC needes to be as big as needed. But, you can lower the size required to cool X amount of degrees by improving other factors. Like the restriction in the air system, Turbo efficiency, etc... Since the OEM turbos are quite efficient, a smaller IC is needed. If you desighn the system right, you can have a small IC.
As any heat exchanger, making the frontal area bigger will provide better cooling that by making the IC thicker.
If you want to do a custum one, maximize the frontal area, and then make thickness of the cooler only to alow the max CFM. Then you will actually get it very effcient IC and same or better response as OEM. Just have to get a book and use the formulas.
