I know this is a ridiculous question that's probably never been posed, nor attempted. But i'm piecing together a turbo system. I'm short a few parts, but i have a side mount intercooler. While still running n/a has anyone tried to intercool their cold air intake? Colder charge = more power eh?

 

I was running this when I was in the early stages of getting my first turbo set-up together. I wanted to get the intercooler piping, bov and my DSM side mount in ahead of time so I won't have a lot of down time. The car felt like crap and there was so much restriction. You won't like it.

 

Ha, glad to know i'm not the only dumb one

 

IMO i think the intercooler would cut off alot of the air supply to your engine.
maybe this is better?
http://www.cryofuzion.com/prod...eezer

 

When not under pressure, an intercooler slows down the intake charge resulting in much less power and a less responsive engine. The air may be 3 degrees colder, but it's not enough to offset the restriction of an intercooler.

 

not only is the intercooler going to act as a restriction but your not going to cool down air that is the same temperature as the air running through and blowing through the intercooler. It would probably act more like an intake muffler if anything and quiet as well as restrict the intake. no gains are to be had with a conventional intercooler attatched to a cai as you wouldnt be cooling anything. it is scary that you even asked this question...

 

what about just for fun, using a really good fmic (i dunno, water cooled or somethiing). And attaching an air filter at the input side. That may work no?
Just curious, having fun...no need to be an ***, everyone's on a different level of knowledge here :\

 

Water cooling would work, but not very well as the lower temperature incoming air is, the less effective a radiator device will be in further lowering the temperature. The restriction, the extra water pump, the lines and the hassle wouldn't be worth the price and time it would take to do so.

Air cooling is worthless in this case. AA Intercoolers don't "chill" air: they bring it closer to ambient air temperature after its been superheated by a turbine. Therefore, ambient air would not see a positive change going through an ambient-air-temperature intercooler.

Good enough?

EDIT: this is not a stupid question. I'd rather respond to this nine times a day than "little miss pink del sol OMGHI2U!" up top .

 

Hmm...does the compressed air really get that hot? I mean it's not like you're putting the exhaust gasses in your IM, it's just spinning the compressor, no? Perhaps i could understand plenty of heatsoak though. You'd think they'd make turbos that didnt soak up as much heat on the compressor side if that was the case. If i wasnt a chicken ****, i'd be tempted to see just how hot the air on the compressor side is.