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Location:
Brisbane - Chapel Hill
Registered:
June 2002
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 Water-Air Intercooling Questions ...
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Mon, 11 November 2002 02:23
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Hi, I've been wondering lately about water to air intercooling.
I'm planning to put a AE101 4AGZE in my RA23 daily driver, and want to retain the stock look. Bunging a big IC out the front, or chopping the bonnet for the top-mount interwarmer that comes on the 4AGZE, therefore isnt an option.
This led me to thinking about air-to-water intercooling. I do plan to run a pulley kit in the future (to up the boost) and I have heard that the cores are a little cheaper as well. Can I mount the core somewhere in the engine bay so it remains hidden? I will definately need to upgrade the radiator (probably get a black one too, so it dosent look new) so the performance of the cooling system should be adequate, or at least COULD be adequate 
Another thing, the supercharger is pretty small, and I dont want to be running long air intake pipes, therefore retaining engine response.
Does anyone know the thermodynamics surrounding water to air intercooling? The water jacket temperature is going to run from 90 degrees upwards (?) ... what is the normal temperature for the intake charge? surely it isnt that high. If that's the case, I wonder how water to air intercooling is going to do anything other than heat up the intake charge :/
Surely they work somehow tho, GT4s came with them didnt they?
Any ideas/corrections welcome.
TIA
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