Someguy says he has his a/c hooked up to his liquid-to-air intercooler, and he says it cools so well that condensation builds on the intercooler.

Does anyone have anymore information on running it this way?

 

Yeah right.

Have you seen the setup?

Most people that run air to liquid coolers (such as myself) would just put ice in the resevoir tank..... and yes it works well.

People have talked about having the A/C chill the intake charge however it's just not possible. Your car's A/C system isn't capable of chilling the sheer volume of air that the engine will require at even the lowest of RPM's.

 

also think of how much power your a/c compressor hogs. ever notice how much weaker your car is when the compressor is running?

 

A/C is ran through Air-Liquids on the older Bonneville cars as well as many of the older Rallying cars. It just takes more pressure and you don't use the expansion chamber or the heat exchanger for the stock A/C. You use a smaller exansion chamber just before the intercooler. You don't need a big Air-Liquid in this case just an efficient one. It kept me from detonating with 12.5:1 and 5psi all summer before it was fully tuned on pump gas. I used a PWR 4inch by 6inch. That's why I've been trying to get an equal length for my set-up and no-one has one that will work with A/C. I'm currently using the rev-hard and I'm running into problems with turbine surge when I get on it, and I'm afraid to ovespin the turbo which is why I haven't turned up the boost. Recently it was a compounded problem because I spun a bearing, DOH!
Oh what better yet is I don't have to re-fill with Ice water. Your just jealous . I read about the A/C intercooling in a book called 'TURBOCHARGERS' by:Hugh MacInnes.

It hogs so much power because the compressor has to push it through the condenser, the expansion chamber, and finally through the heating/cooling core in your dash. That's quite a bit of pushing if you think about it. I ran it to my 'mini'-expansion chamber the intercooler and that's it. I can feel it when it kicks on (I have it solenoid controlled with my ECU for manifold temp., but I have a switch in the mix to switch it on when racing) that my car dogs until the intake charge cools off, but I can tell the difference when it's cool. I haven't dyno'd it yet. I ran out of money building it.

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post some pics please

 

No problem, soon as I get my camera back.