This is where an intercooler comes in. An Intercooler have lots of openings which allow hot air to dissipate heat as they pass through the intercooler. This improves performance, minimizes the risk of an engine overheating — while also ensuring every piston gets a safe amount of fuel and air. But do you know why an intercooler only works with turbo? An intercooler is a piece of equipment found only in turbocharged engines.
Turbocharged engines produce a lot of heat as they compress and pack more air. More air equals more power and better fuel efficiency.
However, compressed air gets hot, so it loses density and oxygen. As a way to make use of compressed air, it needs to be cooled, which means that the Intercooler is used. Hot air enters from one end of intercooler and gets cooled as they pass through. Intercooler have openings and cooling fins which allow hot air to dissipate heat. Cars without turbo engines will lose horsepower when working with an intercooler. Instead of helping to cool air down, an intercooler becomes a restriction instead.
You will see a loss in horsepower even with the best Intercooler available. The Intercooler, in addition to adding extra space between the air intake and intake manifold, also restricts the flow of air through small channels connected to fins that dissipate heat. If you do not have a turbo, the best solution is to get a cold air intake or icebox. Turbo-less Intercooler setups do not deliver a positive boost in horsepower. Instead, you will see a decrease in horsepower. An intercooler is a heat exchanger that lowers the temperature of compressed air as they pass through an intercooler.
If you have an NA car and want cooler air, cold air intake is a much better choice. In this section I compare intercooler and cold air intake. An intercooler is a device designed to reduce the temperature of air that has been heated by compression like turbo. This type of air gets hotter and less dense as it comes out from under the hood. Therefore, an intercooler helps cool the compressed air down before sending it into your engine for combustion — very suitable for a turbocharged engine.
A cold-air intake on the other hand, is designed to replace the hot, humid outside air entering your engine with cooler, denser inside air from under the hood. A cold air intake CAI is also an intake system, but unlike an IC Intercooler , CAI does not use refrigerant or heat exchange fluids — it just takes in cooler air from the surrounding.
Air enters the CAI through ducting in front of the radiator and runs over a screen filter that prevents debris from entering your engine. Sign in to follow this Followers 1. Intercooler on a non turbo worth it? Prev 1 2 Next Page 1 of 2. Recommended Posts. Posted June 11, Worth the trouble? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites. Subruise You know, i was kicking the idea for an electric supercharger..
Fairtax4me Posted June 12, Posted June 13, Also, how would i attach the MAF to it? I'm assuming everything isnt pictured? Bottom line is, clean paper filter in the stock airbox. Crazyeights Posted June 22, So it is possible to perhaps get a performance increase, but not for any practical on-road use. WoodsWagon Create an account or sign in to comment You need to be a member in order to leave a comment Create an account Sign up for a new account in our community.
Register a new account. Sign in Already have an account? Sign In Now. Neon SXT4. Turbos pressurize the air. Pressurizing air causes it to heat up. An intercooler helps to cool it back down to normal outside temperature so the engine doesn't ping.
If you don't have a turbo, there is nothing to be gained here. In fact, the intercooler will only be a huge restriction on your intake. When people speak of "cold air" intakes, they often don't realize that "cold" actually means outside ambient temperature.
If you have a CAI, and it's 80 degrees outside, the most you can hope for is 80 degree intake air temperature. Now try to recall if you've ever noticed an increase in horsepower from a cold day to a hot one.
Not likely. It's because the length and diameter has been tuned properly. A short ram shifts the power band up beyond your rev limiter.
The longer the pipe, the more usable the power becomes. The same is true of your exhaust pipe, but that's another topic. All turbo cars have an intercooler gas , but typical performance mods for them include a front mount intercooler that shiny radiator you see which allows for higher flow, and higher temperature drop, allowing for higher boost pressures Are you wondering if any non-turbo car has any use for an intercooler?
Only turbocharged not supercharged which is a different animal cars can use an intercooler to reduce intake charge temperatures.
May I add that it depends on the type of supercharger, if it is a Eaton type one jackson racing for instance you cannot intercool it since it is one part with the intake manifold If you are running a regular supercharger such as a vortech, then yes, you can intercool it, but typically water to air intercoolers are used, as there isnt enough space in the engine compartment for the tubing a front mounted intercooler needs Any car can have an intercooler.
But if the car is not forced induction, then the benifits will not be anywhere near an engine that is forced induction. Normally aspirated engines can benifit from intercoolers, but only forced induction engines real see the better part of the benifit.
Actually, the reliability factor just depends on the specific manufacturer not the type of supercharger. The difference between types of superchargers is the amount of parasitic losses it may have. And Eaton roots type is the most commonly used in OEM applications, not screw type. As to Eaton, you can intercool it.
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